Belair. Australian magpie on the edge of the lake in Belair National Park. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Belair. Australian magpie on the edge of the lake in Belair National Park. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Brief History of the Foundation of Belair.The first white people to visit the area were absconders from the ship named Coromandel in 1837 and then Nicholas Foot started “squatting” on land here in 1839. Also in 1839 Governor Gawler selected 850 acres for a government farm at Belair and the squatter Foot was paid £300 compensation for the cottage he had built on the land. Other settlers eschewed the top of the ridge at Belair as the soils were thin, there was no permanent water on the crests and only the valley bottoms appealed to settlers. Governor Robe extended the government farm to 2,100 acres in 1848 for the production of hay and agistment for police horses. About this time some settlers took up land in the valleys and the Travellers Rest Inn at Belair opened to provide drinks for the teams going up to Coromandel Valley and beyond. The Inn closed in 1862. In fact the first titled land was granted to James Coutts in 1844 for the area that is now Glenalta. More settlers purchased land from 1849 when land was surveyed and put up for sale. There were enough settlers in the district for the opening of the first private school in 1861 by Maria Ludewigs. She had sixteen students. It is believed that the name of Belair was given to the district by Maria’s husband Gustav who subdivided some of his land in 1861 and named it after his wife’s birthplace in the Martinique Islands. Another theory suggests Belair was named earlier in 1849 after Eugene Bellairs who was a government surveyor who lived in the area. Until the arrival of the railway line from Adelaide via four tunnels in 1883 Belair was a sleepy area of apple orchards and small dairy farms. With the convenience of the train service to Belair large houses for commuters and summer residences for the wealthy appeared along the ridge tops overlooking the city below. Adjacent areas like Glenalta were subdivided for suburban blocks in the early 1960s. . Belair Hawthorn Maze.Once the government built the Governor’s summer residence at Belair (1859) they were responsible for most of the area that the National Park covers today. Part of it was later controlled by the Woods and Forests Department at the suggestion of the SA Surveyor General George Goyder. Experiments were made from the 1870s onwards with small plantations of pine, European trees and Australian hardwoods in a 500 acre section. Whilst under that department’s control a European style hawthorn maze was planted near Belair station in 1886 just three years after the train service was open. So the maze was planted years before the park was declared. The maze has six concentric circles of hawthorn with an open centre. It is just visible on a rise near the station. With shallow soils and no supplementary water the maze almost died out before a local Blackwood medical doctor wrote about it, organised a rescue project and obtained a government grant to do so. Dr Barry Long then wrote an article on the maze for the Australian Garden History Society of which he is a member. It was put on the Register of the National Estate in 1975 as the only surviving colonial maze in Australia. The maze was re-opened in 1991. It now has a water system and is reviving well. Belair National Park Entrance.When the park was declared the entrance from Belair Station and Sheoak Road was the main entrance to the park as almost all visitors came by train. But the origins of the park go back to the early days. A summer house for the governor was erected in 1859 and occupied from 1860 onwards until Marble Hill was completed in 1878. Government officials used the house after that time. Around 1880 the government tried to subdivide and sell the farm. This aroused public condemnation and a local Belair resident, Walter Gooch led a crusade to preserve the area, its fauna and flora. The railway brought visitors to the old government farm and from 1883 the Field Naturalists began to urge the creation of a national park. Gooch persisted and in 1891 the Belair National Park Act was passed. It was the second national park in Australia, after the Royal Park near Sydney and it was the fourth national Park in the world. The Belair Lodge House near Belair station, which is still occupied, was completed in 1893. Walter Gooch was made one of the first Commissioners of the National Park. Commissioners ran the park until 1972 when it was put under the control of the department of National Parks and Wildlife Service. |
| 撮影日 | 2020-04-18 14:53:24 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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