When was camperdown settled

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The first priest. There was also a. Perrett's residence. The name of. Its owner was. Paton and it was in this. It had only one room. It ceased to be a. It was. It was full of patients. In the grounds of.

With local tradesmen directing the stonework and carpentry, both the church and the vicarage were completed within four months. The Church was built in three stages with chancel and sanctuary, and transepts and bell tower added later. In a vestry and Lady Chapel were added. Architecturally it is a mixture of styles, including Norman and Gothic. Both the church and the vicarage are built in bluestone with Welsh slate roofs. The church features sandstone surrounds for the doors and windows.

The pulpit and font are cut from the same sandstone. The original pews and choir stalls are still in use, however, in the floor was replaced and carpeted, and heating installed.

From , stained glass windows have been a feature. The great west window is in memory of Peter and Thomas John Manifold. A Memorial Garden is established in the grounds. Flour Mill Located at Curdie Street, the old bluestone three-storey flour mill, which dates from , has been converted into eleven luxury apartments and a restaurant.

Tel: 03 Keeyuga Located at 9 Campbell Street is 'Keeyuga', now a private home, which was built in It is a handsome three-storey residence, with Gothic ornamentation, was the home of local architect, Michael McCabe, who designed the town's famous clock tower and Catholic Church.

The tower is a later addition. It has since been extended and altered in and The present site was purchased as a more suitable location, with the old church building moved in two sections on horse frame, in , to the current site.

This old weatherboard church building continued to be used as a Catholic School until it was destroyed by fire in The current St Patrick's church was built in The building was enlarged in with the addition of a sanctuary and vestry, and improvements, including the installation of new leadlight windows.

Major renovations and alterations were undertaken in , with the entrance changed to Walls Street. Drive south on Lawrence Street and continue into Mount Leura Road which leads to a carpark near the summit m above sea-level. There are views over the crater and the almost perfectly conical Mount Sugarloaf which lies to the south-west. Sugarloaf was purchased in by the National Trust to prevent it being further damaged by quarrying.

Mount Leura was formed within the last 20, years. It was created when lava which emerged from a vent in a volcanic crater solidified. It is low lying. However Mount Leura is the largest cone in the area and it offers panoramic views of the surrounding countryside which is characterised by a large number of crater lakes and cones and the world's third-largest volcanic plain.

The area is listed on the Victorian Heritage Database which notes: "The Mount Leura complex is significant as a geological site. It comprises an outstanding example of a group of scoria cones within a broad volcanic crater, or maar. Because it is a relatively young landform the features visible within it are very fresh and unaltered by erosion, so they show clearly the processes by which they were formed. The value of the geological feature is enhanced by the fact that much of it lies within a public reserve provided with a network of footpaths, so that the site can be readily accessed by student groups and the community.

There is a trail which leads from the carpark, past a lookout and information site, around the crater of Mount Leura and up Mount Sugarloaf. The information site has information boards outlining the area's geology. To the north-west are the sandstone ridges of the Grampians mountain range; to the north are Mount Meningoort m , Mount Kurweeton and the bulk of Mount Elephant m with the Central Grampians in the distance; to the west are Mount Shadwell m and Mount Noorat m ; to the east Lake Purrumbete, Lake Corangamite and Mount Porndon; and, to the south, on a clear day, views extend as far south as the Great Southern Ocean.

The 1. Lake Bullen Merri is easily accessible while Lake Gnotuk has no simple public access. Lake Bullen Merri is 3 km wide, reaches a depth of 66 metres and is shaped like a clover leaf - it was probably three adjoining craters.

Lake Gnotuk reaches a depth of 20 metres and is almost as wide as Bullen Merri. Lake Bullen Merri is fed by underground springs. While water seeps into Gnotuk and evaporation has caused an intense build-up of salinity. It is twice as salty as sea water. Noted Victorian artist Eugene von Guerard painted Bullen Merri in and, on the basis of the accuracy of this painting, it is clear that the lake has shrunk over the past years. Peter Macdonald, who had been superintendent for Mr.

Armitage, and started for the new country with a splendid lot of stock and material. Shortly after taking possession Mr. Macdonald went to Mortlake in , and settled at Noorat in , having carried on grazing and agriculture there ever since. M'Garvie, William, Pomborneit, was born in the North of Ireland, and arrived in Melbourne in , going thence to the Barrabool Hills, near Geelong, and remaining there a year. He then went to the Plenty for a time, and was after that for three years at the Stony Rises, and followed various avocations until , when he selected the property on which he now resides, and carries on grazing.

The first church in Pirron Yalloak was opened about twelve years ago. About he purchased land in the parish of Kolora, where he took up his abode, and has since remained, carrying on the avocation of a grazier. He recently paid a visit to Scotland. His son, Mr. He is now in possession of the property. He then removed to Mortlake, and purchased the land on which he now resides, conducting the business of a grazier and farmer.

Mackinnon, Daniel, Terang, was born in the island of Arran, Scotland, and arrived in Melbourne in September, , by the ship Caledonia, the first vessel to sail direct from Scotland to that port. He took up a station at Mordialloc, in conjunction with the late Major Fraser, and, after remaining there nine months, proceeded to the Camperdown district in , and entered into partnership with Dr.

Curdie, that partnership existing for about three years, when he purchased the Jancourt Station, some few miles south of Camperdown. In he purchased the Manda Yalloak Station, near Terang, where he now resides, and carries on grazing.

The family removed to Perracoutta Station, near Moama, N. He then sold the property and removed to Birregurra, where he carried on farming for a few years. In he came to the Camperdown district, and selected land in the parish of Kariah, where he remained until his death, in October, , leaving a widow and four sons and a daughter. Neil Black. He first went to Ballarat for about three months, and in February, , proceeded to the Western District, and remained there with Mr.

Black for about ten years. At the expiration of that time he purchased the Woorong Station, and carried on grazing until , when he sold the property to Mr. Thomas Shaw. Neil Black, and remained five years in his employ, after which he went into partnership with his brother Donald, and purchased a station at Timboon from Mr.

Lloyd, on a portion of which he still resides. The first store in the district was opened by Messrs. In he went to Terang, where he has been ever since engaged in grazing pursuits, and where he makes a speciality of breeding hack and trotting horse stock. Manifold Bros.

These gentlemen, three in number, were undoubtedly the pioneers of the now wealthy and important district of Camperdown. So far back as about the year they took up a vast area of land there for grazing purposes, and saw the growth of the district from a desert wilderness into — first, a magnificent pastoral territory, feeding countless flocks and herds; and later into a smiling tract of agricultural country, dotted with towns and villages, and with the homesteads of well-to-do farmers.

The home station of the Manifold brothers is known as Purrumbete. It lies on the north shore of the splendid fresh-water lake of that name, about six miles east of Camperdown township, and is one of the finest estates in the Western District.

Thomas Manifold died about ; Mr. John in January, ; and Mr. Peter on 31st July, Manson, William, Mortlake, is a native of the colony, born in Richmond, near Melbourne, in In he went to Mortlake, and purchased the Mortlake Despatch, a newspaper established in by Mr.

Hughes, and afterwards carried on by Mr. Baird, from whom Mr. Manson bought it. Manson is secretary to the Mortlake cemetery, which was established in April, , and is also secretary to the local rifle club.

The Mortlake Despatch is a bi-weekly newspaper, having a large circulation in that and the surrounding neighbourhoods. Matthews, William, Kolora, born in Redruth, Cornwall, England, arrived in Australia in with his parents, who first settled down in South Australia at the Burra Burra copper mines, and remained there three years, after which they came to Victoria in the beginning of Matthews then followed gold-digging at Bendigo for eighteen months, and in July, , went to Creswick.

In January, , he commenced store-keeping, and kept an hotel. In he removed to Glenormiston, where he has resided since, carrying on the business of a grazier. Mawbey, Henry, Terang, was born in Surrey, England, and arrived in , at Port Phillip, where he lived for two years. He then formed a station at Mount Macedon, and, returning to Melbourne, resided at Brighton.

Mawbey started the first public conveyance in Port Phillip, running between Melbourne and Brighton. After a residence of some years in Warrnambool, Mr. Moodie, Alexander, Camperdown, was born in Perthshire, Scotland, and came to Australia in , landing at Geelong, and proceeding the same year to the late Mr. In he married a daughter of Mr. Morris, James S. He was apprenticed in Hobart, and after serving about three years and a half, he went with his master to New Zealand, and finished his apprentice ship of seven years in Wellington.

He stayed there until , when he came to Victoria, landing at Geelong, and proceeding to Camperdown about In he commenced business as a general blacksmith, in which capacity he is still engaged. Mountjoy, Thomas, Lorne. This gentleman, one of the first and best-known residents of the fashionable watering-place, Lorne, is a native of Cornwall, England, who arrived in Melbourne in , and settled at Geelong.

After a year on the goldfields, he commenced farming, with his brother Caleb, on the Barrabool Hills, and carried it on for ten years.

In they went to Loutitt Bay, now Lorne, and, in , started a Temperance Hotel, which they have conducted successfully ever since, and in which they have ample accommodation foi- visitors. The brothers Mountjoy erected the first house in the district. They run a daily mail coach in summer between Birregurra railway station and Lorne; thrice a week in winter. Besides conducting the hotel, Mountjoy Bros.

Murray, Andrew, Colac. This gentleman was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and, with his parents, emigrated to Tasmania in , landing in Hobartown. He remained in Tasmania eighteen years, spending the first nine years in the country, and the remainder in Hobartown. In January, , he came over to Victoria, going from Melbourne to Geelong overland.

Thence he proceeded to Colac, and entered into partnership with his brother Hugh, which partnership lasted for seven or eight years. During this time they took up the Wool Wool Station, and in Mr. Murray settled there, and has carried on grazing ever since. Murray was the first settler in that part of the country, which consisted then, as now, mostly of open plains, only there were, of course, no buildings nor fences to be seen.

About the first place of worship, a Presbyterian church, was opened in Colac, the Rev. Gow being the minister. Murray, Hugh, Colac deceased , was born in Scotland, and came out to Tasmania with his parents in , landing at Hobartown. He reached Victoria in , and settled down near Winchelsea, where he remained for six months. During this time a party was organised to go out in search of Gellibrand and Hesse, who had started on an exploring expedition; and, passing on in quest of the lost men, the party came in view of Lake Colac and the surrounding country.

Seeing a large number of blacks carrying pieces of flesh on their spears, the party became alarmed, and retreated to Mr. On this he and his party started at once, found and took up the country, of which he may well be considered the pioneer; and he took up his abode there and remained until his death. Ten years after his settlement Colac was a favourite haunt of the blacks. At first they were hostile, and harried the flocks with their dogs; but the resolute stand made by Mr.

Murray, who went among some hundreds of them camped near the sheepfold and shot a number of their yelping curs that had caused such devastation amongst the pure and high-priced ewes, taken with such trouble to Colac, made the blacks appreciate the situation and decamp. In a short time the natives became friendly, and some of the younger ones made useful servants; one, named Jim Crow, remaining with Mr.

Murray until his death. Murray was the first justice of the peace in the district, and was president of the shire council until his decease. He died in July, , deeply regretted by all classes of the community. In he married Miss Elizabeth Young, and left a large family of sons and two daughters. History Camperdown Academy opened its doors in , the first school of its kind in the Upstate of South Carolina.

The school was founded by a group of parents who were concerned about the lack of educational opportunities for their bright dyslexic children.