Uleybury School room erected in 1856 near One Tree Hill South Australia. Now a great museum. Architect was Daniel Garlick.
One Tree Hill and Uleybury.
The district of Uley bury was named by Moses Garlick, an English settler who arrived in SA in 1837. He named the area after a place in the Cotswold Hills where he came from in Gloucestershire. Garlick was a devout Baptist and in 1851 he built the Uley Baptist Chapel at a personal cost of £400. Following frequent vandal attacks the church was demolished in 1981. The City of Munno Para erected a plaque here with some confused wording. The plaque inaccurately says Uleybury Baptist was the first Baptist church in SA. One need only read the headstone of Moses Garlick’s grave to realise the falsity of this. Garlick was involved in the founding of the first Baptist congregation in Kermode Street North Adelaide in 1838. The plaque says the Uley Chapel was established in 1864 when elsewhere it is dated as starting in 1851. The first Baptist churches (as opposed to a congregation meeting) built in SA were the Tynte Street Baptist Church and the Finders Street Baptist church erected in 1843. Uleybury opened in 1851. Most Baptists churches were independent congregations but the Baptist Union was formed in 1864 so perhaps Uleybury was the first church of the Baptist Union? Not all Baptist congregations ever joined the Baptist Union. Moses Garlick died in 1859 and has an outstanding sandstone headstone in the cemetery. Other common names in this pioneer cemetery are: Barritt, Bowman, Ifould and McKenzie. Stone from the church was used to build the current stone wall along the road frontage of the cemetery.
A few years after the founding of the Uley Chapel Moses Garlick got to work to have a school built in Uleybury. Reverend John Buttfield donated the land and the solidly constructed Uleybury School opened in 1856.It cost £400 to erect. It began as a Methodist church school until 1874 when it was taken over by the government just ahead of the passing of the Free, Secular and Compulsory Education Act of 1875. In the 1940s its name was changed to One Tree Hill School. It was closed in 1971 when a new One Tree Hill School was opened in a different location. Reverend Buttfield arrived in SA in 1848 and began work as a Baptist clergyman at Gumeracha becoming the first paid Baptist minister in the colony. Buttfield had a brother who had a store at nearby Smithfield and his other brother, Francis Buttfield, was the post master at One Tree Hill in the 1850s. Whilst at Uleybury Rev. John Buttfield became a land owner himself and ended up being a wealthy man. Reverend Buttfield was the first headmaster of the school, as well as the local clergyman, and in the government inspector’s report of the early 1850s it was written that: “Owing to the care he displays, and the consequent progress of his pupils, Mr Buttfield is deservedly esteemed as a teacher in the neighbourhood". Buttfield travelled widely across the Adelaide Plains and Gawler Hills to perform Baptist marriages. His wife died in 1862, aged 36 years, after bearing him eleven children. Since the early 1980s Uleybury School has operated as a school museum.
One Tree Hill was first settled in the 1840s and a township began around 1851 with the building of a hotel the One Tree Hill Inn. The town’s first Council meetings were held here from 1853. The town name came from a single massive gum tree which unfortunately burnt down in 1890. The first Methodist Church was built in One Tree Hill in 1867 after William Gartrell sold some land to the church. A modern church porch was added in the 1980s. Another school named the Precolumb School was also built in One Tree Hill in 1855. It operated until 1938.
James Adamson established a water driven flour mill at One Tree Hill in 1853 as the district was a major wheat growing area. Eventually the flour (or wheat) was carted down the hill to Smithfield or Salisbury railway station. Felled timber was also carted down to the railway stations. The ruins of this mill and water wheel are on the register of the National Estate but they are not visible from public roads. The mill operated until 1870 but Adamson soon sold out to the Kelly family, one of the pioneering families of One Tree Hill. William Kelly was a district founder and became a wealthy farmer. He was a local councillor and built a fine two story Georgian sandstone house on his property called Yelki. His son Edward Kelly, who had been educated at Prince Alfred College, inherited the property in 1891 and created a family business which operated as Yelki Pty Ltd from 1897. His father had established several thousand acres at Yelki in 1857. Edward employed architects to build a second main house on the property in 1909 and it included a septic toilet! It is located on the road to Elizabeth. The Kelly family sold Yelki in 1984.
Uleybury School room erected in 1856 near One Tree Hill South Australia. Now a great museum. Architect was Daniel Garlick.
One Tree Hill and Uleybury.
The district of Uley bury was named by Moses Garlick, an English settler who arrived in SA in 1837. He named the area after a place in the Cotswold Hills where he came from in Gloucestershire. Garlick was a devout Baptist and in 1851 he built the Uley Baptist Chapel at a personal cost of £400. Following frequent vandal attacks the church was demolished in 1981. The City of Munno Para erected a plaque here with some confused wording. The plaque inaccurately says Uleybury Baptist was the first Baptist church in SA. One need only read the headstone of Moses Garlick’s grave to realise the falsity of this. Garlick was involved in the founding of the first Baptist congregation in Kermode Street North Adelaide in 1838. The plaque says the Uley Chapel was established in 1864 when elsewhere it is dated as starting in 1851. The first Baptist churches (as opposed to a congregation meeting) built in SA were the Tynte Street Baptist Church and the Finders Street Baptist church erected in 1843. Uleybury opened in 1851. Most Baptists churches were independent congregations but the Baptist Union was formed in 1864 so perhaps Uleybury was the first church of the Baptist Union? Not all Baptist congregations ever joined the Baptist Union. Moses Garlick died in 1859 and has an outstanding sandstone headstone in the cemetery. Other common names in this pioneer cemetery are: Barritt, Bowman, Ifould and McKenzie. Stone from the church was used to build the current stone wall along the road frontage of the cemetery.
A few years after the founding of the Uley Chapel Moses Garlick got to work to have a school built in Uleybury. Reverend John Buttfield donated the land and the solidly constructed Uleybury School opened in 1856.It cost £400 to erect. It began as a Methodist church school until 1874 when it was taken over by the government just ahead of the passing of the Free, Secular and Compulsory Education Act of 1875. In the 1940s its name was changed to One Tree Hill School. It was closed in 1971 when a new One Tree Hill School was opened in a different location. Reverend Buttfield arrived in SA in 1848 and began work as a Baptist clergyman at Gumeracha becoming the first paid Baptist minister in the colony. Buttfield had a brother who had a store at nearby Smithfield and his other brother, Francis Buttfield, was the post master at One Tree Hill in the 1850s. Whilst at Uleybury Rev. John Buttfield became a land owner himself and ended up being a wealthy man. Reverend Buttfield was the first headmaster of the school, as well as the local clergyman, and in the government inspector’s report of the early 1850s it was written that: “Owing to the care he displays, and the consequent progress of his pupils, Mr Buttfield is deservedly esteemed as a teacher in the neighbourhood". Buttfield travelled widely across the Adelaide Plains and Gawler Hills to perform Baptist marriages. His wife died in 1862, aged 36 years, after bearing him eleven children. Since the early 1980s Uleybury School has operated as a school museum.
One Tree Hill was first settled in the 1840s and a township began around 1851 with the building of a hotel the One Tree Hill Inn. The town’s first Council meetings were held here from 1853. The town name came from a single massive gum tree which unfortunately burnt down in 1890. The first Methodist Church was built in One Tree Hill in 1867 after William Gartrell sold some land to the church. A modern church porch was added in the 1980s. Another school named the Precolumb School was also built in One Tree Hill in 1855. It operated until 1938.
James Adamson established a water driven flour mill at One Tree Hill in 1853 as the district was a major wheat growing area. Eventually the flour (or wheat) was carted down the hill to Smithfield or Salisbury railway station. Felled timber was also carted down to the railway stations. The ruins of this mill and water wheel are on the register of the National Estate but they are not visible from public roads. The mill operated until 1870 but Adamson soon sold out to the Kelly family, one of the pioneering families of One Tree Hill. William Kelly was a district founder and became a wealthy farmer. He was a local councillor and built a fine two story Georgian sandstone house on his property called Yelki. His son Edward Kelly, who had been educated at Prince Alfred College, inherited the property in 1891 and created a family business which operated as Yelki Pty Ltd from 1897. His father had established several thousand acres at Yelki in 1857. Edward employed architects to build a second main house on the property in 1909 and it included a septic toilet! It is located on the road to Elizabeth. The Kelly family sold Yelki in 1984.