Moff's History Tour 1 & 2

History Tour 1-

NOTES

TREES:
Norfolk Pine
Peppercorn tree/ spice
Aleppo Pine
Boxthorn
Mallee
Sheoak
Cypress

MINES:
Pt Turton- Limestone- Flux Building- Calcium Carbonate, Bottom of the sea. (Calcium Carbonate= CaCO3)
Stenhouse Bay- Gypsum- Inneston (MgCO3)

SETTLERS:
Boiler-Steam Ship.
One Room-Tin-Aristarcorat-Top of Hill-Driveway-Stone-Stockade
Watering Hole
Desalinisation
Althorpe Island
Chinamans Hat
Kaditcha- Law
Ethol- Ferret

EXPLANTION:

Norfolk Pine History-

·         Discovered by Captain Cook

·         Discovered on Norfolk Island

·         Was very important to make sail boats

·         Has been around since the ice age

·         It’s Trunk and Branches are evidence of this as it is very efficient in capturing light

·         Was a main reason why Australia was settled

Limestone-

·         Is made up of dead, decomposed, organisms and is crushed together under great pressure

·         Made at the bottom of the sea

·         Used a lot in the 1800’s

·         Pressed together over millions even billions of years

·         The first limestone rock is very weak as it was made up algae and bacteria

Desalinisation-

·         A plant was built in PT recently

·         It changes salt water into fresh water

·         Makes large amounts of toxic salt

·         The salt is then pumped back into the sea

·         Shows a drastic change to supply water

·         Is harming the environment by altering the salt vs. water levels which make the sea

Chinamans Hat-

·         A small island in the shape of an Asian hat

·         Was named by people who had settled in Australia

·         Lots of Chinese people came over in the gold rush

·         The settlers saw what the Chinese people wore

·         They realised the island looked simular and named it Chinamans Hat

History Tour 2-

NOTES:

Warooka Museum:
Three things I learnt-

1.       Beersheba Battle

2.       Women weren’t allowed to have money

3.       Old telephones

Brentwood Cemetery:

Oldest 1878

50% young

Epitaph- There is a Reaper, Whose name is Death , and with his sickle keen, He reaps the Bearded grain at a breath and the followers the grow between.

Sandewood Park:
Three things I learnt-

1.       Importance of horses

2.       First engine in Australia

3.       Smoking rooms preserve food well

Peazy Swamp:

Was Underwater

Rift Valley- Dropped in height greatly.

EXPLANATION:

Women were not allowed to carry much money on them, only enough to get a drink when they are out. They weren’t allowed bank accounts as well.

In the Brentwood Cemetery around 50% of the graves were for young children not much pass the age of 13 years. Some were only 13 months old. There was a huge age gap between the next set of dead people. They were in their 70’s/ 80’s but no one was in their 30’s/ 40’s.