Glenelg : ceremony at the Old Gum Tree |
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| Title : | Glenelg : ceremony at the Old Gum Tree |
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| Date of creation : | 1914 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
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| Description : |
Scene at the Old Gum Tree, possibly Proclamation Day. Proclamation Day in South Australia falls on the 28 December and commemorates the reading of the document known as the Proclamation of South Australia by George Stevenson, the Secretary to Governor Hindmarsh, in 1836. The official party stood beneath an old gum tree while the proclamation was read. The ceremony has been celebrated at the current location near an old bent gum tree since 1857, although there is still much debate as to whether this is the same tree where the proclamation was originally made. |
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| Period : | 1914-1918 |
| Region : | Adelaide metropolitan area |
| Further reading : | Manning, Geoffrey The Old Gum Tree revisited researched and written by Geoffrey H. Manning Adelaide : G.H. Manning, 1992 |
| Internet links : | History SA State History Conference In 2006 see "Proclamation Day at the Bay" and "The old gum tree" The Manning Index of South Australian History - Place Names - Glenelg |
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