 The following information is a copy of JK Stokes data on Mount Barker as contained in her Rootsweb (Ancestory.com) Genealogy Website and has been included here with permission. No alterations or additions may be made to her information without further permission, although relevant comments and/or additions are welcome to be added at the bottom of each page. (copied July 2014) |
Legend
Refer to Map 1 for names of Streets
| V1 | site of first religious services under a gum tree at the bottom end of Kiaora Street (which did not exist in those days) |
| V2 | site of original Primitive Methodist chapel |
| V3 | site of the "Lecture Hall" |
| V4 | Anglican Church |
| V5 | Presbyterian Church |
| d1 | site of original Court House |
| d2 | site of Police officer's house |
| d3 | site of new Court House built in 1860's, closed 1976 and rebuilt in 1980's |
| C3 | Low's Inn - now called Hotel Barker |
| C2 | Gray's Inn |
| C1 | site of Gloag's Inn |
| C4 | site of old wine shop and house that had a "T" made of bottles embedded in the front wall |
| C5 | Crown Hotel, originally run by Mr Gloag and later by George Uphill |
| W10 | Temperence Hall |
| W11 | building known as the RSL Hall, which was used as a Doctor's rooms and also as a residence |
| U1 | site of the cemetery in "The Triangle" |
| U2 | I cannot find any definite record of where "Resurrection Row" was in Mt Barker, but from descriptions given to me by very old residents, and from existing texts, I believe that the area marked is fairly close to it. This is where the first cemetery was. |
| 3U1 | the site of the present cemetery is beyond the scope of the map following Springs Road |
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