Warren. NSW. The impressive Catholic Church. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Warren. NSW. The impressive Catholic Church. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Warren. Population 1,600.North east of the town are the Macquarie River marshes a huge area of forests, swamps, lagoons, marshes and water reeds which are the one of the largest inland water areas of Australia. It was made a NSW Nature Reserve in 1971 and declared a wetlands of international significance in 1986. When the Dubbo to Bourke railway to the Darling was being constructed in 1883 Warren missed out being on the railway line. The town progressed further when a spur railway from the Dubbo to Bourke railway reached the town in 1898.Explorer John Oxley camped near the town site in 1818 on his explorations of the Macquarie River. The next explorer to see the rich fertile lands of the valley was Captain Charles Sturt in 1828. By then the local Ngiyambaa Aborigines must have been concerned about what would happen next. In 1845 they saw white mens’ sheep on their lands as Thomas Readford and William Lawson (the son of the explorer who crossed the Blue Mts in 1813) established Warren sheep station by a natural waterhole near the Macquarie River. They chose the name warren as it meant a game park in old English usage and that area had prolific wildlife. Another theory is the word “waran” in the Ngiyambaa language meant “root”. Stockmen often camped by the Warren waterhole and in 1860 the government surveyed a town here. The first public structure was a post office in 1861 and by 1867 Warren had stores, houses and a school, and by 1875 it had a Courthouse (1874), an Anglican Church (1873) and a bridge across the Macquarie River (1875). In 1885 it got a purpose built government school and in 1903 a new Anglican Church with an octagonal tower was built. The old Post Office is now the Information centre and near it is the modern and impressive Catholic Church built in 1953. The Anglican and Presbyterian churches are also in Lawson Street. At the main intersection of Lawson and Dubbo streets are the Club House Hotel (1905) and the Royal Hotel (1900) both being built after a major town fire in 1899. One of the interesting buildings in Warren is Edenborough next to the Club House Hotel. The land was taken out by Edward Readford in 1861 and around 1900 he built a combined residence and commercial building with French doors for the upstairs residence and a double louvred gable in the roof. It has had many different types of shops in it over the last 100 years or so. By 1900 Warren had a population of 1,000 and 120 years later it has only risen to 1,500. The district is known for its wool, grain and cotton and Auscott has a gin (mill) a few kms outside the town. Cotton was only grown after the Burrendong Dam was built in 1867 making water available for irrigation. The shire council refers to itself as the “wool and cotton” capital of NSW. Macquarie Park behind the Catholic Church and along the Macquarie River has memorials to John Oxley and Charles Sturt and the River Red Gum walk starts in the park following the river to the Warren waterhole. The first Catholic Church was moved in 2013 to become the Info centre and café beside a wetland. Auscott. This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and the offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-04-24 12:54:42 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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