Franklinford

Franklinford
Monument in Franklinford. Text: "Edward Stone Parker 1802 - 1865 Regional Pioneer Protector of Aborigines established the Loddon Aboriginal Station, Homestead, Church and School near this site in 1841. His devoted service remains a challenge and inspiration. April 1966. "
State :  Australia State : Victoria Founded : 1841
Coordinates : 37 ° 24 ′  S , 144 ° 1 ′  E Coordinates: 37 ° 24 ′  S , 144 ° 1 ′  E Area : 23.7  km²
Residents : 66 (2016) Population density : 2.8 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC +10) Postal code : 3461 LGA : Shire of Hepburn
Franklinford

Franklinford is a small parish in the central highlands of Victoria , Australia , which is in the Shire of Hepburn . The Franklinford area was selected in January 1841 by Edward Stone Parker , an assistant Protector of Aborigines , to establish the Loddon Aboriginal Protectorate Station , a protectorate for the Aborigines of the Dja Dja Wurrung . The protectorate was of great importance for the Aborigines of the Dja Dja Wurrung from 1841 until their deportation in 1864. The settlement is on the Midland Highway .

history

Loddon Aboriginal Protectorate Station

The Mount Franklin was a traditional country of Gunangara Gundidj clans in Aboriginesstamm the Dja Dja Wurrung . Ethnographic and archaeological evidence shows that large ceremonies were held in this area with the participation of numerous Aborigines.

Aboriginal farmers in the Loddon Aboriginal Protectorate near Franklinford (1858)

In January 1841, Parker selected Mount Franklin on Jim Crow Creek as the location for the Aboriginal home because of the safe fresh water supply with the support of Dja Dja Wurrung and Commissioner Crown Land Frederick Powlett. The permit for construction was granted in March, and a large number of Dja Dja Wurrung , accompanied by Parker, came to this area in June 1841 because the station at William Mollison's Coliban Run , in the form of a hut, already existed as an outstation. The place was known under the Dja Dja Wurrung as Loddon Aboriginal Protectorate Station as well as the area as Larne-ne-barramul or habitat of the emu (German: area of ​​the emus ). Nearby Mount Franklin was called the Lalgambook by them .

A homestead, church, school and other buildings were built. Franklinford was very important to the Dja Dja Wurrung during the 1840s, as they found shelter there, were given food and could continue their traditional cultural practices according to their semi-nomadic lifestyle as far as they wanted. At that time, over 200 Aborigines were housed there.

The Aboriginal Protectorate School in Franklinford was closed and the children and their families were deported to the Coranderrk Aboriginal Mission in February 1848 . On December 31, 1848, the Protectorate on Mount Franklin was dissolved when 20 or 30 Dja Dja Wurrung were still living  in the station. Six Dja Dja Wurrung men settled near Franklinford, but all but one of them died from accidents or respiratory diseases. Tommy Farmer was the last survivor to go to Coranderrk in 1864.

Going home camp

On May 26, 2004, Susan Rankin, an elder of Dja Dja Wurrung , peacefully occupied the Crown Land at Franklinford and called the camp a Going Home Camp . Rankin made a request to the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) in Victoria whether they had any documents proving that the Crown had the right to occupy the land. As a result, on June 2, 2004, her attorney in Daylesford received a reply from the local DSE official that the Department could not produce such documents and that it doubted that such documents existed.

Franklinford Common School and Franklinford Hall

The Franklin Ford Common School was built in the mid-1860s and into the Victorian Heritage List included because it is one of the few schools of its kind that still exists in its original state in a rural settlement.

The school building and Franklinford Hall were added to the Victorian Heritage List . The hall was completely renovated in December 2008; the redevelopment was funded mainly by the Victorian government.

The Franklinford post office opened on February 15, 1859 and closed in 1969.

Web links

Commons : Franklinford, Victoria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Franklinford ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
2. ^ Bain Attwood, My Country. A history of the Djadja Wurrung 1837-1864 , Monash Publications in History: 25, 1999, ISSN  0818-0032
3. ↑ Janet MacDonald, Garry Powell: Double Gold: 1870's Mining and Farming Diaries . Prahran Mechanics Institute Press, Windsor, Victoria 2008, ISBN 9780980453621 .
4. ↑ Daniel Catrice, Victoria's Heritage. Mount Franklin, Hepburn Regional Park ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Parks Victoria, 1995. Retrieved December 21, 2008  
5. ↑ Parker Quarterly report June 1 - August 31, 1841, p. 26. PROVic, VPRS 10/3, file 41/207 as referenced by Bain Attwood, My Country. A history of the Djadja Wurrung 1837-1864 , Monash Publications in History: 25, 1999, ISSN  0818-0032
6. ^ Edgar Morrison, Frontier life in the Loddon Protectorate: episodes from early days, 1837-1842 , Daylesford [Victoria], The Advocate, 1967 ?.
7. ^ Bain Attwood: My Country. A history of the Djadja Wurrung 1837-1864 , pp. 23-36, Monash Publications in History: 25/1999, ISSN  0818-0032
8. ↑ Richard Broome, Aboriginal Victorians. A History since 1800 , p. 115, Allen & Unwin, 2005, ISBN 1741145694
9. ↑ dse.vic.gov.au : Property, Titles and Maps, Managing Crown Land - Fact Sheet - Committees of Management and Reserved Crown Land. Retrieved November 18, 2011
10. ↑ Margaret Murphy, greenleft.org.au ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Sovereignty, not sorry , Green Left Weekly, July 7th, 2004. Retrieved December 25th, 2008 
11. ↑ melbourne.indymedia.org ( memento of the original from October 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Jaara re-occupation and camp , Melbourne Indymedia, June 4, 2004. Retrieved December 25, 2008  
12. ↑ Madeleine Jenkins, hepburn.yourguide.com.au ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Restoration grant for Franklinford Hall , Hepburn Advocate, December 16, 2008. Retrieved December 25, 2008 
13. ^ Premier Postal History: Post Office List . Retrieved April 11, 2008.