Pancharpoo in the Light River Valley. The cemetery of the former Primitive Methodist Church built in 1858 and enlarged in 1866. Three I'Anson headstones. . : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Pancharpoo in the Light River Valley. The cemetery of the former Primitive Methodist Church built in 1858 and enlarged in 1866. Three I'Anson headstones. . / denisbin
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| 説明 | Pancharpoo. Farmers moved into this area in the mid 1850s. Pancharpoo Primitive Methodist church was built in 1858 but soon enlarged in 1866 with labour donated by the congregation hence the 1866 date on the building. The first minister was Henry Cole. Built of fine local stone it finally closed in 1964 and was derelict for years but is now a residence. It was originally known as Reoboth, a Hebrew word meaning “The Lord Hath Made Room”. Wild Rosemary bushes still grow around the church with no watering and the cemetery behind the church began in 1865. Pancharpoo is an Ngadjuri Aboriginal word meaning “on the watch for kangaroos” presumably drinking from the river we now know as the Light River. The explorer John Hill named the river after Colonel William Light. John Hill also named the nearby Wakefield, Hutt and Gilbert rivers. The lands for the church were given by Mr Kinsey of Salisbury a devout Primitive Methodist. His daughter Martha Kinsey later married Jong I’anson of Pancharpoo district. He was a lay preacher in the district as were his brothers. The parents of John I’anson were Maria and Leonard I’anson and they were both buried in the cemetery here. They arrived in SA in 1839 and farmed at One Tree Hill before moving to Pancharpoo. Leonard I’anson died in 1875 aged 66 years and Maria died in 1907.The church celebrated their diamond jubilee in august 1918. Like many settlements a government school operated in this church from 1860 when it had 59 pupils until closure in 1866 when it had 59 pupils. A Post Office service for Pancharpoo opened in 1860. Other family names on headstones.The Light River Valley Special Surveys.The Secondary Towns Association was formed in London in October 1838 with the purpose of buying 9,000 acres of land through Special Survey in South Australia for the price of £9,000. The Association had a number of investors who wanted to participate in the two 4,500 acre Special Surveys. Their local agent, John Morphett, took the opportunity of taking a third Special Survey for the group north of Adelaide to adjoin their original Light River Special survey. Their first survey was along the Murray River in which they tried to establish the town of Wellington. The Association wanted very British and very royal names- Wellington, Waterloo and Victoria after their queen. Their northern survey was a west east survey along the Light River from where Kapunda now stands towards Hamley Bridge. That survey was done in March 1840. Their third survey was adjoining their second and to the north of the Kapunda survey. It took in land each side of the Light River as it flowed due north-south making the combined survey L shaped. It covered the area from Allendale North to near Waterloo. It was surveyed in February 1841. Because of these two northern surveys the Light River valley was one of the first areas north of Adelaide to be surveyed and settled for farming (as opposed to just copper mining). The only areas of settlement north of Adelaide in the 1840s were the Gawler District (one Special Survey there), the Barossa Valley (about 8 or 9 Special Surveys there), the Light River (two Special Surveys there and a part of Sir Montague Chapman’s survey at Koonunga near Kapunda) and to a very limited extent the Clare Valley (two Special Surveys there on the Hutt and the Wakefield rivers.) So this Light River valley is one of the oldest settled areas of South Australia. The usual procedure for the government was to survey about 12,000 acres for each Special Survey. That meant that after the £4,000 had been paid for the survey and 4,000 acres taken the government still had about 8,000 acres of surveyed land to sell to other settlers. Thus white farmers started moving into the Light River valley near Kapunda from around 1843, and further north from about 1848. Apart from the availability of surveyed land agriculture began in these districts because most of this land was on or near the bullock routes used by the teams transporting the copper from Burra and Kapunda down to Port Adelaide and it was gently undulating country with good and reliable rainfall. Farmers saw the opportunity to sell wood or grain or meat to the growing towns of Burra and Kapunda. They did not necessarily have to transport all of their grain or produce to Adelaide. |
| 撮影日 | 2025-03-30 12:14:01 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| 露出 | 0.001 sec (1/800) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 6 mm |