Taplan on the Adelaide to Renmark railway. The first Institute was built in 1917. This fine stone Institute was completed in 1924. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Taplan on the Adelaide to Renmark railway. The first Institute was built in 1917. This fine stone Institute was completed in 1924. / 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 | Taplan. 8 kms from border. Taplan means “grass tree” in an Aboriginal language. Taplan railway siding and yards, the life blood of the town in early years, opened in 1913. Like most Murray Mallee railways it closed in 1992 and sadly the rail lines were removed soon after in 1995. The tiny settlement soon had a general store and Post Office which finally closed in 1982 but a community Post Office still operates. The town was in the midst of a grain farming centre. It was declared a town in 1913 and by 1915 Taplan had 35 adults on the local electoral roll. After World War One this increased as in 1919 the SA government bought 14,000 acres of scrubland near Taplan for a soldier settlement community. The land was divided into thirteen farms for soldier settlers who arrived in 1921. Few were successful and the land was sold to other farmers. In the early 1920s a number of German background Lutheran families moved to the Taplan district. Like most communities the locals soon wanted an institute for social events, meetings, weddings etc. The Taplan Institute opened in 1917. The building of the Institute caused a major community division. One person offered land for an Institute associated with the Institutes Association and another offered land for a Public Hall. The institute group won and work began on its construction in 1916. The Commissioner of Crown Lands opened the new Institute on 15 April 1917. The Taplan School opened in the first Institute in July 1917 with Isabella Oliver being the first teacher. The first Taplan Institute was not big enough for the community and a new Institute was opened by a local politician in 1924 which had been added on to the original Institute. It was still part of the Institutes Association but called the Taplan Hall. The new expanded hall was to be used for showing movies by the 1930s. Eventually the Institute became the Hall and it closed and was sold in 1994. A new government school building opened on July 25 1927 despite the sign saying 1929. This school room closed in 1967. The other public building of the town was St John’s Evangelical Lutheran church. Its dedication service was held in October 1923 but the Lutheran congregation was formed in 1918. Services were held in German and records written in old German script but a number of young Lutheran men joined the Australian forces in World War One to support king and country. Services and records continued in German until January 1940 when English was adopted for some services. But one service a month was still held in Luther’s German. From 1941 English language Bibles were in use. It was 1959 before the church became St Johns (not St Johannes) and English was adopted for all services including Holy Communion. The porch was added to St Johanne’s church in 1948. Taplan has a cemetery run by the Lutheran Church. Methodist Church services were held in the Institute in 1920s. The Lutheran Church recently closed and is now a private residence. Family names for burials in Taplan Lutheran cemetery are: Hampel; Jaeschke; Koch; Maudsley; Obst; Pech; Schneck; Teusner; Vogelsang; Zacher; Zimmerman. In 1982 the Tapalan Post Office and general store closed but a Community run Post Office now exists there. In 2013 for the town’s centenary a stone cairn and plaque was unveiled at the site of the former railway station. Although Taplan is well above Goyder’s Line it is now fairly viable farming country. The grain farms that began with 2,000 acres or less in 1913 are now between 10,000 and 15,000 acres each. This increase in acreage led to rural depopulation and the new massively big computerised seeders, harvesters etc allow these farms to be run with just one or two people. The 1913 farms with their eight draft horse teams for seeding, ploughing and reaping usually had around 5 or six workers to run them. Farms around Taplan now produce viable incomes for those who remain here and throughout the Murray Mallee. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-11-21 15:44:40 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
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| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |