Hynam. The Smith family walled cemetery and the memorial column for Adam Smith. he died 1876. Some station workers were buried here also with unmarked graves.
Hynam.
After the pastoral era the land here was surveyed and put up for sale from around 1872 although the Hundred of Jessie was not formally gazetted until 1875. The original pastoral property, the 37,000 acres Hynam Estate was taken up by John and Adam Smith in 1847. Their fine stone woolshed visible from the highway was built in the early 1850s and still stands. When land was put up for sale for farming in the early 1870s Adam Smith bought up freehold land. In July 1877 after his death 37,000 acres of freehold land was offered for sale. It was sold for £110,000 and purchased by his sons who continued to run the property which after a few years was run by William Smith and Co. A cemetery, later enclosed by a stone wall, was established in 1875 near their woolshed and among the handful of burials were those of Adam Smith in 1876 and his wife Jane. In 1876 after the Kingston railway reached Naracoorte the government announced plans for a railway through what is now Hynam to Custon. The route was finalised in 1878 and the village of Hynam emerged. It began with a Post Office in 1878 and a tiny provisional government school in 1879 but more settlers arrived when the railway siding opened in 1885. Hynam soon had a local hall and a store. From 1912 Hynam had a weatherboard Anglican Church and in the 1930s through to at least the 1950s Hynam also had a Presbyterian Church. The Smiths of Hynam Estate were staunch Presbyterians. Town blocks were offered for sale in 1912 and the town of Hynam was officially created in 1900 as Hynam East. It became Hynam in 1941. The railway line at Hynam closed to freight trains in 1995. The old timber framed Hynam school was enlarged in 1904 and then a new Mt Gambier stone school was built on another site in 1935. It cost £810 but is now closed as a school.
Hynam. The Smith family walled cemetery and the memorial column for Adam Smith. he died 1876. Some station workers were buried here also with unmarked graves.
Hynam.
After the pastoral era the land here was surveyed and put up for sale from around 1872 although the Hundred of Jessie was not formally gazetted until 1875. The original pastoral property, the 37,000 acres Hynam Estate was taken up by John and Adam Smith in 1847. Their fine stone woolshed visible from the highway was built in the early 1850s and still stands. When land was put up for sale for farming in the early 1870s Adam Smith bought up freehold land. In July 1877 after his death 37,000 acres of freehold land was offered for sale. It was sold for £110,000 and purchased by his sons who continued to run the property which after a few years was run by William Smith and Co. A cemetery, later enclosed by a stone wall, was established in 1875 near their woolshed and among the handful of burials were those of Adam Smith in 1876 and his wife Jane. In 1876 after the Kingston railway reached Naracoorte the government announced plans for a railway through what is now Hynam to Custon. The route was finalised in 1878 and the village of Hynam emerged. It began with a Post Office in 1878 and a tiny provisional government school in 1879 but more settlers arrived when the railway siding opened in 1885. Hynam soon had a local hall and a store. From 1912 Hynam had a weatherboard Anglican Church and in the 1930s through to at least the 1950s Hynam also had a Presbyterian Church. The Smiths of Hynam Estate were staunch Presbyterians. Town blocks were offered for sale in 1912 and the town of Hynam was officially created in 1900 as Hynam East. It became Hynam in 1941. The railway line at Hynam closed to freight trains in 1995. The old timber framed Hynam school was enlarged in 1904 and then a new Mt Gambier stone school was built on another site in 1935. It cost £810 but is now closed as a school.