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Jane Swain Adams
Jane Swain Adams (28 February 18519 November 1934) was an Australian farmer who built the Mangowine Homestead with her husband. Biography Adams was born in Toodyay, Western Australia on 28 February 1851, the second of four children of Scottish-born farmer Charles and his wife Jane Mary ( Cameron) Glass. A young Jane Adams married cobbler Charles Frederick Adams on 6 November 1868. The Adams originally established a farm at Yarragin, then in 1875 they moved to Mangowine, near Nungarin the furthermost east of any settler at that time where they built the Mangowine Homestead. In 1887 Adams commenced keeping meteorological records, a task she continued until her death in 1934. With the discovery of gold at Yilgarn in 1888, Charles built an inn at the homestead, which Jane ran until Mangowine was bypassed by the rail line from Northam to Southern Cross. They closed the inn in 1893. Charles died in 1895, and Jane continued to run the farm providing fresh produce for travellers an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mangowine Homestead
Mangowine Homestead is an historic homestead in Nungarin, Western Australia, built by Charles Frederick and Jane Swain Adams. It comprises a cottage built c1876, and an adjacent building constructed in 1889 as an inn. The property was given to the National Trust of Australia (WA) The National Trust of Western Australia, officially the National Trust of Australia (W.A.), is a statutory authority that delivers heritage services, including conservation and interpretation, on behalf of the Western Australian government and c ... in 1968 by Olive Warwick (Charles and Jane's granddaughter). The Trust commenced restoration work in 1970, and opened the property to the public in 1973. References Homesteads in Western Australia National Trust of Western Australia Nungarin, Western Australia State Register of Heritage Places in the Shire of Nungarin {{WesternAustralia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1851 Births
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19th-century Australian Farmers
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
