33-460: Oyster Cove is a semi-rural locality in the local government areas (LGA) of Kingborough and Huon Valley in the Hobart and South-east LGA regions of Tasmania . The locality is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south-west of the town of Kingston . The 2016 census has a population of 319 for the state suburb of Oyster Cove. Part of Oyster Cove is an Indigenous Protected Area due to its history as
66-427: A 3 hectare block of land near to Oyster Cove to farm, while Fanny Cochrane Smith was allowed to move out after she married a local white sawyer. However, disease and despair hung over Oyster Cove, and when a pub named "The Aborigine" was opened at nearby Little Oyster Cove in 1858, alcoholism became rampant. By 1867, there were only four residents left alive, and in 1872 Truganini was the sole survivor. In that year,
99-599: A colonial holding facility for Aboriginal Tasmanians . Before British colonisation, the Oyster Cove area was part of the country of the Nuenonne people of Indigenous Tasmanians, probably frequented mostly by the Melukerdee clan of these people. A French naval expedition arrived in the bay in the 1790s, calling it Baie d'Huîtres from which the name Oyster Cove is derived. In the 1820s, British sawyers entered
132-518: A few nights ago. Mr. Crowther, member for Hobart Town, threatened his colleague, Mr. Kennerley , with personal violence, because of the latter's allusion to Mr. Crowther's alleged abstraction of the last aboriginal's head. Mr. Kennerley called the attention of the House to the circumstance, and Mr. Crowther was reprimanded. Crowther died in Hobart on 12 April 1885, three days before his 68th birthday. He
165-472: A strong interest in natural history. Crowther was subsequently apprenticed as an apothecarist in Hobart but without qualifications. After the death of his father in 1839, William Crowther continued his medical studies in England. He famously travelled from Hobart with a large collection of Tasmanian fauna, which included potoroos, black-faced wallabies, a pair of Tasmanian devils and 493 skins. This collection
198-531: Is a local government body in Tasmania , and one of the five municipalities that constitutes the Greater Hobart Area . Kingborough is classified as an urban local government area and has a population of 37,734, it covers the transition from the southern urban areas of Hobart through Kingston , as well as encompassing Bruny Island . The origin of Kingborough Council is a simple derivation from
231-713: The Coral Sea and engaged in sealing and pelagic whaling from Hobart. Crowther was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in October 1866, but resigned his seat in December 1866. On 22 March 1869, he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as a representative of Hobart and held this seat until his death. He was a constant attendant and an able speaker. In July 1876 he joined
264-562: The Hobart City Council voted 7 to 4 in favour of removing Crowther's statue from public display in Franklin Square, as an act of reconciliation . Lord Mayor , Anna Reynolds , said "[This] does not change history", adding that the records and stories remained unchanged; however, "We don't want to celebrate a time in our history when scientists and doctors wanted to prove theories of European superiority". She said that
297-669: The Royal College of Surgeons in London. He was suspended from his role as honorary medical officer at the Hobart General Hospital over charges arising from this mutilation. An inquiry showed that two mutilations had taken place, the first at the Colonial Hospital, the other at the cemetery the night of the burial. Drs Crowther and G. Stokell, resident medical officer at the hospital, were suspected of
330-537: The State Library of Tasmania by his grandson Sir William Crowther (1887–1981), son of Edward, in 1964. Despite a long life involving many other endeavours and achievements in his adopted home and abroad, according to historian Helen Patricia MacDonald, referring to the theft of Lanne's remains, "the events of 1869 came to define William Crowther's place in Tasmanian history". A bronze statue of Crowther
363-488: The Thomas Reibey cabinet as a minister without portfolio, and on 20 December 1878 became premier. The state of the political parties at that time made it practically impossible to do anything constructive. Crowther resigned on 29 October 1879. Crowther is noted for allegedly mutilating the remains of William Lanne , a Tasmanian Aboriginal man , in 1869. He was suspected of removing Lanne's skull and sending it to
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#1732780848497396-479: The Kingborough Council’s district in 1808 at Brown’s River (Promenalinah), named after Robert Brown , botanist in 1804. The town and district were both known as Brown’s River during the earliest periods of settlement. The Lucas family settled the area and built The Red House, a prominent mansion which is now Kingston Golf Club. Early Kingston developed primarily around The Red House. Development of Kingborough
429-688: The Oyster Bay Probation Station was built to house convicts, but it proved too expensive and was shut in 1847. After the destruction of Aboriginal Tasmanian society by British colonisation and the Black War , the remaining 200 or so Indigenous survivors were rounded up and placed into forced exile at the Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment on Flinders Island . In 1847, the Wybalenna facility
462-675: The Royal College of Surgeons in London for preservation. Crowther was born on 15 April 1817 in Haarlem , Netherlands. He was the son of Sarah ( née Pearson ) and William Crowther, who was later a long-time resident surgeon of Hobart . The Crowthers moved to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania ) in 1824. Crowther was educated at Richard B. Claiborne's Grammar School in Longford, Tasmania in 1828. On his 120-mile (193 km) walks to and from school in holidays, Crowther developed
495-509: The adults and relocated to the orphan school in Hobart. In 1855, an investigation by the colonial surveyor James Erskine Calder found that the Oyster Cove facility was in an almost completely derelict state with alcoholism and prostitution being pressed upon the fifteen surviving occupants. Although Milligan was sacked as manager, the funding of the facility was further reduced. John and Matilda Dandridge were appointed as replacements to Milligan, and they were able to make improvements to lives of
528-561: The apple industry progressed during the 1960s, but the industry collapsed entirely following the 1967 Tasmanian fires , when much of the municipality was devastated and most orchards burnt down. A memorial to the 62 fatalities of the fire was constructed in Snug following the fire, where 80 of the towns 120 buildings burned and a permanent exhibition is present at the Channel Heritage Centre. Localities and smaller towns of
561-571: The colony or in Britain and Europe. For example, William Lanne's body was decapitated by Dr William Crowther at the Hobart hospital and Truganini's skeleton was exhumed and displayed at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery , while Patty Clark's skeleton was dissected out of her body by Morton Allport soon after she died. Dr Edward Crowther and his son Dr William Edward Crowther purchased land at Oyster Cove in 1900 and by 1909 had exhumed
594-561: The first woman's cricket league in Australia at Oyster Cove, The Oyster Cove Ladies Club. Oyster Cove was gazetted as a locality in 1968. The shore of the D’Entrecasteaux Channel forms the eastern boundary. The Channel Highway (Route B68) passes through from north to south. Route C626 (Nicholls Rivulet Road) starts at an intersection with B68 and runs west until it exits. Kingborough Council Kingborough Council
627-670: The first, the Royal Society of Tasmania of the second. A petition with 48 pages of closely-packed signatures was sent to Governor (Sir) Charles Du Cane seeking annulment of Crowther's suspension, without success. Crowther threatened violence when challenged about his actions by then Premier Alfred Kennerley in the Tasmanian Parliament in August 1873: A fracas occurred outside the Council chamber, Hobart Town ,
660-407: The former municipality of Bruny. In 1877 Keen's Curry was invented in the municipality. The area developed as a holiday area, especially the suburbs of Kingston Beach and Blackmans Bay. Margate and Kettering operated fishing fleets and Taroona had a manufacturing industry, primarily through Taroona Shot Tower . Sandfly became a centre for small fruits and apple orcharding. The decline of
693-609: The government shut down the Oyster Cove Aboriginal facility and Truganini was relocated to the Dandridges' home in Hobart where she died in 1876. Many of the corpses and skeletal remains of the Aboriginal residents who died at Oyster Cove and elsewhere were mutilated and pilfered by the colonists for so-called scientific reasons. Their skulls in particular were taken and then sold or given to anatomists within
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#1732780848497726-469: The name of the main town. The name Kingston was suggested by Mr Lucas in 1851, and the area had been known as Brown's River before then. Why he suggested this name is unknown. Mr Lucas' parents had been raised in England near New Kingston, they had come from Norfolk Island where the capital was Kingston or it might have been named after the Governor of New Norfolk Philip Gidley King . Europeans settled in
759-1061: The region include Taroona , Kettering , Margate , Snug , Blackmans Bay and Woodbridge . Kingston is classified as urban, fringe and medium (UFM) under the Australian Classification of Local Governments. • Blackmans Bay • Bonnet Hill • Howden • Huntingfield • Kingston • Kingston Beach • Taroona • Adventure Bay • Allens Rivulet • Alonnah • Apollo Bay • Barnes Bay • Barretta • Birchs Bay • Coningham • Dennes Point • Electrona • Fern Tree • Flowerpot • Garden Island Creek • Gordon • Great Bay • Kaoota • Kettering • Killora • Leslie Vale • Longley • Lower Longley • Lower Snug • Lunawanna • Margate • Middleton • Mount Nelson • Neika • North Bruny • Oyster Cove • Pelverata • Sandfly • Simpsons Bay • Snug • South Bruny • Tinderbox • Wellington Park • Woodbridge William Crowther (Australian politician) William Lodewyk Crowther FRCS (15 April 1817 − 12 April 1885)
792-431: The region to exploit the prime timber resources. A timber mill was established by John Helder Wedge at Oyster Cove and convict wood-cutting teams resided in the area. These workers perpetrated violence and rape against the local Nuenonne people and spread venereal disease amongst them. As a teenage girl, the famous Indigenous woman, Truganini , was held for sexual purposes by sawyers at nearby Birchs Bay . In 1840,
825-660: The remains of fourteen people from the Aboriginal cemetery for their collection. The locality was returned to the Indigenous people of Tasmania in 1995 under the Aboriginal Lands Act 1995 , and in 1999 Oyster Cove was declared an Indigenous Protected Area . By this time, many of stolen Aboriginal skeletal remains had been repatriated to the local Aboriginal community. Oyster Cove Post Office opened in 1897 and closed in 1924. It re-opened in 1927 and closed in 1964. In 1894, teacher Lily Poulett-Harris established
858-590: The statue would be conserved, and that preliminary discussions had been held with the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery about moving it there. In the early hours of Wednesday 15 May 2024 Crowther's statue was toppled after a tool was used to cut through the legs. The incident was condemned by the Hobart City Council's chief executive as an act of vandalism. The plinth was spray painted with the graffiti "What goes around" and "decolonize". Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) campaign manager Nala Mansell said
891-426: The survivors. Under the new regime, the Aboriginal residents were allowed some freedoms with the women such as Truganini , Dray, Patty Clark, Wapperty and Bessy Clark permitted to go on extended hunting and cultural excursions into the bush and across to Bruny Island . The men, such as William Lanne and Tillarbunner, were able to be employed on whaling ships. Walter George Arthur and his wife Mary Ann were granted
924-417: Was a Tasmanian politician, who was Premier of Tasmania from 20 December 1878 to 29 October 1879. His careers in medicine, politics, and business were overshadowed in modern times by his alleged role in the unsanctioned exhumation and decapitation of William Lanne's body. Lanne was believed to be the last "full-blooded" Aboriginal Tasmanian male and after the exhumation, his skull was sent by Crowther to
957-503: Was erected in Franklin Square , Hobart , on 9 January 1889, funded by public subscription. The inscription reads: Erected by a grateful public, and sincere personal friends To perpetuate the memory of long and zealous political and professional services rendered in this Colony by William Lodewyck Crowther F.R.C.S. England Sometime Premier of Tasmania Born 15th April, 1817 Died 12th April, 1885 On 15 August 2022
990-494: Was shut down and the remaining 47 Indigenous people were moved to Oyster Cove. The 15 men, 22 women and 10 children were placed in the abandoned and dilapidated convict facility. The appointed manager, Dr Joseph Milligan, neglected his duty of care to these people despite being paid £600 per year. The buildings fell into disrepair, the food supply was poor and mortality was high due to the area being exposed to cold winds and dampness. The children, like Mathinna , were separated from
1023-577: Was slow and the first post office opened only in the 1840s. The first road to Hobart, Proctors Road, was opened in 1835. Kingston was proclaimed a town in 1851. The town’s name was suggested by the then Police Magistrate, a member of the Lucas family. By 1890 Kingston had a population of 249. When proclaimed on 20 August 1907, the Kingborough Municipality comprised 3 wards: Kingston, Margate and Longley. On 2 April 1993 Kingborough absorbed
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1056-703: Was sold to the Earl of Derby which allowed him to pay his fees at St Thomas's Hospital (M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., 1841) and a year of study in Paris. In 1842, William Crowther returned to Hobart and took over his father's former practice. Crowther engaged in various commercial enterprises in Tasmania. He was a shipowner, had sawmills on the Huon River and shipped lumber from Tasmania to other Australian colonies and New Zealand. He sent ships to collect guano from islands in
1089-522: Was survived by his wife Victoria Marie Louise, daughter of General Muller, and their eight children. One of his sons, Edward Crowther , was a member of the Tasmanian parliament from 1878 to 1912. In 1935 W. L. Crowther's face mask joined those of other eminent Australians in the gallery of the Institute of Anatomy in Canberra . The W. L. Crowther Library was named in his memory, and presented to
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