Eugowra. Village nearest the great gold heist of 1862. In 2012 they began painting murals to decorate the town. Now there are about 30 murals. Autumn streetscape with murals. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Eugowra. Village nearest the great gold heist of 1862. In 2012 they began painting murals to decorate the town. Now there are about 30 murals. Autumn streetscape with murals. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Eugowra. Early explorers Evans in 1815 and Oxley in 1817 passed near Eugowra. The first white pastoralist began squatting her in 1834 and named his property Eugowra. When gold was discovered at Forbes in 1861 the crossing of Mandagery Creek on Eugowra station emerged as a tiny settlement. The John Bull Inn was built around this time and became the first structure in the village. A bridge was built in 1869 and the village had several dozen inhabitants by then but a town was not formally established until 1881. A courthouse, police station and school were all built by the government in that year. Patrick William Morony: “Stage Coach Hold Up Eugowra Rocks” held by the National Library of Australia.The older buildings in the town apart from the hotel are the Lees Store built in 1908, the Methodist (1912), Anglican (1960s) and Catholic Churches(1921). A spur railway line did not reach the town until 1922 and the oldest bank is the neo-Georgian style bank of NSW built in 1926. But Eugowra’s claim to fame is the biggest gold robbery heist in Australia. Four kilometres out of town in a gorge like passage (Escort Rocks) Frank Gardiner and his bushranger gang of seven accomplices, on the 15th June 1862, held up the gold escort from Forbes heading to Bathurst. 2,719 ounces of gold was stolen (worth about $5million in today’s terms) and £3,700 in cash taken. The escort had four armed police with it and two of them were wounded and the coach driver had bullets pass through his hat but not hit him. The gang escaped with the gold and cash being carried. Police and an Aboriginal tracker from Forbes set off to find the bushrangers and located them next day. One pack horse with some cash and gold (about 1,400 ounces) was recovered but the gang eluded police. A further small amount (200 ounces) was captured when Henry Manns was taken prisoner near Forbes but around 40% of the heist was never recovered despite the government’s £1,000 reward for information. Eventually all the bushrangers were arrested or killed. Manns was tried and hanged at Darlinghurst in Sydney. Gardiner survived 10 years in jail till 1874 and then he moved to California. Ben Hall (buried Forbes 1865), Gilbert (buried Binalong 1865) and O’Meally (buried Gooloogong 1863) were all shot and killed by police. Fordyce and Bow were imprisoned with hard labour for life. Charters turned informer and a got a months imprisonment and then moved to the Hunter Valley and next to Queensland where he continued robberies. Look for some of the historic events murals painted on buildings in Eugowra. |
| 撮影日 | 2021-05-01 17:00:34 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| 開放F値 | f/4.5 |