Coolamon. The Coolamon Hotel. opened in 1880 before the railway reached the town as a bush shanty. The current appearance dates from around 1900 with Edwardian features. Updated after 1990s fire. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Coolamon. The Coolamon Hotel. opened in 1880 before the railway reached the town as a bush shanty. The current appearance dates from around 1900 with Edwardian features. Updated after 1990s fire. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Coolamon. Population 1,700.The Aboriginal word for a hollowed out or curved wooden vessel carried mainly by women is Coolamon. It is a generic Aboriginal word used across Australia. The clay landscape around the town of Coolamon is pitted with small indentations that can fill with water after rain hence the name. The first white pastoralist took up leasehold land here in 1850 as the Keandra Creek run of almost 20,000 acres. The other run nearby was Ganmain run. When the Junee to Narrandera railway was being planned the government resumed land to create a township in 1880. Modern Coolamon calls itself the “hay and chaff capital” of the Riverina. After the railway from Junee to Narrandera and Hay reached the town in 1881 the town was declared just before its arrival. A Post Office opened in 1881 and town lots were sold to the public in 1882. Any town this far west needed a railway to Sydney to make farming viable which it then had so the district became a grain growing district. But the government was slow to release land for selection. However by 1884/85 Coolamon had stores, two hotels, a school and an Anglican Church and around 200 residents and in 1887 a flour mill opened in the town. As the town progressed the Shire of Coolamon was established in 1907. One old general store which was established in 1907 was rebuilt in 1909 and is now the combined Information Centre, museum, library, café and shop. The museum has great contrast in its collections from farm machinery to 250 crochet items! Nicholas Mutton, an aptly named butcher, purchased the weatherboard general store in 1908 but he wanted a new impressive general store. He had the Up to Date Store built in red brick in 1909. The architect was William Monks of Wagga Wagga who also designed the Wagga Wagga Catholic Cathedral. Was this department store name a good marketing name and logo? The store closed in 1932 but the Mutton family owned the shop which was used for other commercial purposes until 1987. The local Council then bought it in 1996 for community uses. The store still has its ball cash delivery system when one cashier handled all cash but this was is not a pneumatic tube system, or even a wire carrier system but a ball gravitation system. That American system was patented in 1881 and works with a simple ball placed on sloping rails to roll down by gravity to the cashier, and for a rail sloping in the opposite direction to return the receipt, and any change to the customer. There are only two known – one in Stanley in Durham England and the other one in Coolamon. With luck you might be able to buy some local Coolamon cheese in one of the town shops. The town has many interesting and some Art Deco buildings. The wooden railway station was built about 1885 and the impressive Coolamon Hotel across the road from it began around 1885 when it was only a bush shanty which was replaced by a grand building around 1900 which was renovated after a fire in 1990. The School of Arts was built in 1901 and the outstanding Commercial Banking Company of Sydney building was constructed in 1907 when designed by architect Ernest Laver of Cootamundra. In the same year Laver was the architect of the CBC Bank in nearby Temora. The old Fire Station, which is now the Information Centre, was built in 1933. The former Coolamon Cooperative Society store built in the Main Street in 1924 is now the Coolamon Cheese Company. It has a fine shop, huge café and produces in the building blue cheese, brie, cheddar, pepper cheese etc. Another building of merit is another former bank in the main street built in 1907 with classical and Art Deco features. It was probably the Bank of NSW. The old building marked as the RSL Club rooms has an interesting history. It was built, as the sign says, in 1907 as a coffee palace. The RSL was formed in 1919 and used the Coolamon Shire Hall for many years until 1947 for its meetings. It then purchased the old coffee palace as its club rooms. The Coolamon Shire Council was formed in 1906 and the foundation stone of the architect designed Shire Hall and Council Chambers was Ernest Laver of Cootamundra. The Council Chambers on Wagga Wagga Road were completed in 1914. |
| 撮影日 | 2024-11-14 10:07:02 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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