Wilmington South Australia. The bright purple noxious weed Salvation Jane from the Echium family growing in a paddock. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Wilmington South Australia. The bright purple noxious weed Salvation Jane from the Echium family growing in a paddock. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | The town was officially named Wilmington by the Governor Sir Anthony Musgrave in 1876. It was named his eldest son William Hammond Jervois. Governor Jervois’ wife came from American so perhaps she came from Wilmington in Delaware? Locals protested in 1876 when the name Beautiful Valley was replaced as the current town was created. Wilmington was the main town of the Hundred of Willochra. It grew overnight with the promise of good rains (rain follows the plough) and the opening up the Willochra Plains towards Quorn and the Flinders Ranges. By the early 1880s progressed slowed as hundreds of thousands of acres of land were forfeited and farmers walked away from their unsuccessful attempts to grow rain way beyond Goyder’s Line. But Wilmington still prospered as it had the Beautiful Valley to its west and good farm lands close to the Flinders Ranges. One of the first public buildings was the Institute where stone work began in 1880 with the official opening in January 1882. A new Soldiers Memorial Façade was added in 1925. The fine stone police station and attached Courthouse was erected in 1880 and closed in 1971. The stone Wilmington school opened in 1878 and was extended in 1882 and again in 1883. It was demolished around 1980 when a new prefabricated school opened. The impressive Globe Hotel (now the Wilmington Hotel) was built in 1879 as a two storey structure given the promise of the district at that time. Most new towns began with a single storey hotel! |
| 撮影日 | 2020-10-10 14:04:24 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/250) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |