Hallett. Stained glass sign in the entry to the Hallett Public Hall built in 1929. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Hallett. Stained glass sign in the entry to the Hallett Public Hall built in 1929. / 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 | Hallett. Just outside the town is Willogoleche homestead. The property was established by the Hallett brothers in 1842 and the pastoral run of 200 square miles approved in 1844. This homestead and run was eventually taken over by Joseph Gilbert (of Gilberton) and Pewsey Vale in the Barossa Valley in 1865. The township of Hallett was declared and surveyed in 1872 after the passing of the Strangways Act of 1869 which allowed payment of 10% deposit for land bought at public auction. The push for farmers to be able to grow crops in these pastoral areas grew unabated at this time. Hallett was a suitable area, within Goyder’s Line, with plentiful supplies of underground water as well as rainfall. The town prospered once the railway from Burra arrived in 1878. The first public buildings erected were: –the first Post Office in 1872, an early police station, the state primary school 1879, a wooden Bible Christian Methodist Church in 1877 followed by a stone one in 1880, the Wildongoleechie Hotel around 1873 and the first Institute in 1879. All these buildings remain except for the first police station but few are used for their original use except the Wildongoleechie Hotel. An early general store was established by Crew and Co of Burra and is now a corner café, and the local blacksmith Statton set up major works in 1892. He produced the usual range of farm implements but also his famous Statton gates which were sold all around Australia. One still remains on the Hallett railway station driveway. Many were used by South Australian Railways. Statton blacksmiths and engineers operated in Hallett from 1892 to 1957. One later structure is noteworthy and that is the second Institute which opened in 1929 in the Main Street. When it opened the first institute was purchased by the Anglicans in 1932 for a church and the two front windows were changed into Gothic windows to make it look like a church. This was sold to the RSL Club in 1953 once the Anglicans were planning a new modern church on the outskirts of Hallett. That Anglican Church opened in 1956 but is now a neglected residence. The Masonic Lodge at the northern end of the Main Street opened in 1928 with typical lodge architecture with few and very high windows but as membership dropped it closed in 1978. In 2008 the Lodge offered it free of charge to the Catholic Church which re-opened it as the Good Shepherd Church. Alas their congregation has dwindled and that Hallett Catholic Church closed in 2015 for lack of a priest and congregation. A recent development for Hallett has been wind farms. They consists of around 300 wind turbine generators, together with an underground electrical cable network, access tracks, crane hard standings and several wind monitoring masts. These turbines are part of the Brown Hill Range Wind Farm, The Bluff Range Wind Farm, Willogoleche Hill Wind Farm and Hallett Hill Wind Farm. |
| 撮影日 | 2024-07-10 12:51:45 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.025 sec (1/40) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |