Rochester. Bronze of town resident Sir Hubert Opperman. Champion cyclist of the 1920s and 1930s including the Tour de France.. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Rochester. Bronze of town resident Sir Hubert Opperman. Champion cyclist of the 1920s and 1930s including the Tour de France.. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Rochester. Population 3,100.This historic town is located on the Campaspe River which flows north to enter the Murray in Echuca. The river produced great resources of animals and plants for the Aboriginal inhabitants but their lifestyle and culture was abruptly threatened with change when Major Thomas Mitchel passed through here in 1836. White pastoralist settlers arrived around 1840 as the Port Phillip District became a popular place for new arrivals. The first white man to reside around Rochester was Alex Sims who took out a sheep run of 107,000 acres. By 1846 most all the land was occupied by white pastoralists and from 1847 they could pay for secure tenure of the land. The gold rushes of 1851 changed everything. The town of Rochester was gazetted in 1855. But it was the construction of the railway from Bendigo to Echuca in 1864 that publicised the land around Rochester and farmers saw opportunities for settlement. In 1866 much of the former runs were declared open for selection for farmers. More farmers came in the early 1870s and they shipped their wheat out from Rochester railway station. In 1864 Rochester was a few scattered houses, a hotel, a general store and not much else. A bridge was built across the Campaspe in 1864 to link the railway and the emerging town. A year later Rochester had a Post Office, a baker, a butcher, a common school, and a police constable. The first church a Methodist was built in 1871, which was replaced by a new church in 1910. Also in 1910 a Catholic Church was built which replaced the one built in 1881.A convent for teaching sisters was built by the Catholic Church in 1917. Commerce also expanded from the 1870 s and by 1882 Rochester had thirteen hotels! More churches were erected – the Presbyterian in 1874, the Anglican in 1884 etc. By the 1880s Rochester also had several flourmills, banks, harness maker, two saleyards and a race course, a Courthouse, the Shire Council Offices built in 1892 and designed by Melbourne architect E.J.Henderson, and blacksmiths and two agricultural implement manufacturing works. One of the outstanding buildings of the town is the heritage listed Shamrock Hotel built in 1912 for Mr McMaster. The architects were Keon and Austin of Bendigo. Once irrigation systems were put in place by the Victorian government from 1893 Rochester moved partly away from grain farming to dairying and it had a major state dairy factory. After World War Two the irrigation areas were expanded and the town population increased. It jumped from 1,700 to 2,100 by the early 1960s and 3,900 in the district today. The modern dairy factory closed in 2017 but several agricultural machinery makers still exist as does a number of heritage listed buildings including The Shamrock Hotel (1912 but the first one was 1871), the Shire Hall ( 1892), the old primary school ( 1870), the Courthouse (1889). The town is known for its fine streetscapes and a statue of Sir Hubert Opperman the 1920s and 1930s cycle racer who was raised in the town. He won many races and completed in the 1928 and 1931 Tour de France. He entered Federal parliament for the Geelong electorate in 1949. A recent addition to the town’s attractions is the silo art. Jimmy DVate chose a squirrel glider and azure kingfisher for his prime subjects with the Campaspe River in the background. The images and colours are stunning. Behind that is an amazing platypus. To complement the silo art the town also has an annual mural painting festival and you will see some of these around the town too. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-01-11 13:55:16 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/400) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.0 |