Warrock sheep station near Casterton. A few of the 57 wooden and brick buildings on site dating from 1843.Thirty three are heritage listed. Across the gully is the wooden Wool Shed 1860. . : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Warrock sheep station near Casterton. A few of the 57 wooden and brick buildings on site dating from 1843.Thirty three are heritage listed. Across the gully is the wooden Wool Shed 1860. . / denisbin
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| 説明 | Warrock Station.Warrock sheep station is fairly typical of most Australia Felix properties - well-watered, near a river, and taken up by settlers from Launceston, who were also Scots. Warrock near the Glenelg River is ideal for sheep and its origins go back to 1843 when the NSW government was allowing pastoral runs in this region. The original owners from Van Diemen’s Land soon sold to a Scot named George Robertson who took over the run of 11,700 acres in 1844. He had landed at Portland from Launceston. As a former cabinetmaker he spent the next thirty years designing wooden and sometimes brick Gothic style structures for his property. He built 57 wooden and brick structures plus the homestead which he kept enlarging from the original 1844 wooden structure. Thirty-three of the buildings are now heritage listed. Robertson’s cousin took out nearby Wando Vale run which adjoined Edward Henty’s run of Muntham (57,000 acres). (But the Hentys of Portland had other major runs too -Merino Downs, 23,500 acres and Sandford 15,700 acres.) Robertson married a cousin from Wando Vale but they had no children. When George Robertson died in 1890 he left Warrock to a nephew George Patterson. The leasehold of Warrock was converted to freehold in 1872. The Patterson family kept the property until 1992. Not only is this the most amazing sheep station in Australia but it is also the home of the Kelpie breed of sheep dog. The first Kelpie pup recognised as this breed was born on Warrock in the 1870s. Do not miss the brick dog kennels. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-03-26 11:36:20 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/320) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.5 |