Ingham. Story of the sugar train line to Lucinda in the TYTO Information Centre. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Ingham. Story of the sugar train line to Lucinda in the TYTO Information Centre. / denisbin
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| 説明 | 100 kms north of Townsville near the Herbert River is a large plain enclosed by steep ranges. Every decade or so the Herbert River floods the plain providing rich soils for the district. Ingham is about 25 kms from the Hinchinbrook Channel and coast. Prior to the arrival of white settlers the area was inhabited by the Girramay and Warakamai Aboriginal people. The first English settler in the Ingham district was Henry Stone in 1865 who eschewed a cattle property and set about growing sugar. In 1872 the first sugar mill was built and in 1874 William Ingham came to the Herbert River district buying 700 acres on which to grow sugar. He came from a wealthy English family and his tutor as a boy was the famous writer Anne Brontë. The flat terrain between the mountains was ideal for sugar cropping. William Ingham arrived with plenty of money and used Kanaka indentured labour, as did others, to establish his plantation. In 1876 he helped establish the port at Cairns. When the government surveyed a town in 1878 they named it after this pioneer in response to a petition from local land owners to do so. William Ingham had just been killed in New Guinea where he was a Queensland government agent trying to find gold mines and control white miners in New Guinea. In 1880 the Colonial Sugar refinery company built a sugar mill near Ingham. The CSR Victoria sugar mill still operates today. In the early years the refinery owned hundreds of acres which they leased to small cane growers who had to supply cane on contract to CSR. By 1903 many plantations were large ones owned by companies and run by managers. One of the biggest sugar plantations was Gairloch Plantation which comprised 5,000 acres of sugar cane. They also subleased some land to small sugar cane growers who had to sell to them under contract as did the owners of Hamleigh Plantation with 4,600 acres and Ripple Creek Plantation with about 1,000 acres. The biggest plantation near Ingham in 1903 was MacKnade Plantation covering 7,194 acres! MacKnade plantation had their own sugar mill. The Macknade sugar mill began operating in 1873 and is still producing and is the oldest sugar mill in Queensland. For many years the Victoria Mill at Ingham had the highest output of any sugar mill in Queensland. The cut sugar cane has always had to be carted to the nearest sugar mill for processing. Horse and carts were usually initially but later the Ingham district became criss-crossed with small railway lines owned by the sugar mills. This is still the form of transportation used today but with diesel engines not steam engines of 100 years ago. The processed sugar is bulk handled and export from Lucinda on the coast 22 kms away. Owners of Gairloch plantation and Macknade plantation used Kanaka indentured labourers but they also imported Chinese labourers direct from China. |
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