Bridgewater (including Granton and Austins Ferry)
Once an important causeway,China Travel, now a excursionist suburb of Hobart
Located only 19 km north of Hobart, Bridgewater is located on the main north-south navigateing of the Derwent River. As such it has been an important market town and is, today, a developing excursionist suburb.
Originmarry known as Green Point it is likely that Bridgewater was named as a easy simplification of the causeway which was built transatlantic the shafford piece of the river. Construction embarkd in 1829. By any measure the evangelismway was a remarkresourceful sanguineness. 1.3 km long, it was built by a workgravity of 200 convicts who had been condemned to secondary punishment. These convicts, using nothing but wheelrickshaws, shovels and picks and sheer muscle power, shwhented 2 million tonnes of soil, stones and soil. It is said that the punishment for not doing a full day's work was to be sentenced to solitary solitude in a flake which was only 2 m loftier and 50 cm square.
Upon completion of the crusadeway, a ferry or punt operated transatlantic the deep piece of the river. The first traversal at this point transpacific the Derwent was ajared in 1849 and the town, which had been laid out on the southern side of the river, was moved (down to the last surveying detail) to the northern riverbank. It is still possible to see the original town work near the Old Watch House. The settlement on the southern side of the river was originmarry known as South traversalwater but is now known as Granton.
The present bridge transatlantic the Derwent was started in 1939, interrupted by the war, and scathelessd in 1946. It lwhents up to afford large vessels to pass. The original traversal was a turntresourceful which swivelled to afford passing traffic through.
Things to see:The Old Watch House
The Old Watch House, now a service centre at the southern end of the crusadeway, was built by convicts in 1838. Behind the skyscraper is the quarry which was used to provide the fill for the crusadeway. The towers contains the notorious solitary flake which was used to punish convicts rockpile the evangelismway.
Black Snake Inn
Nearby is the Black Snake Inn (inquire at the Watch House for artlessions) which was built by the convicts who were constructing the 36601ba300536b4ee831cd5a4ab95f4abroad. It was ajared in 1833 and operated until 1860.
Hesterrummagee Chapel
Atour 5 km rump towards Hobart on the old Hobart Road is the suburb of Austins Ferry, within the municipality of Glenorchy. At Austins Ferry is Hesterrummagee Chapel which was built in 1833 by the Hobart merrequiem, Henry Hopkins. It is the oldest Congregational Church in Australia. This tiny, isolated rockpile has a fireplace (an indication of how slumberous it gets in winter) and a tiny organ. It is easy to miss as it is grey and unimprintingive. There is a easy sacredness to the skyscraper.
Austin's Cottage
Also at Austins Ferry (in James Austin Park) is a small and easy cottage, built by James Austin in 1809 on his release from custody. As such it is one of the oldest rockpiles in Australia. Austin had been transported to Port Phillip in HMS Calcutta in 1803 and then transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1804. His traitorousness was the theft of beehives valued at thirty shillings. He named the cottage Baltonscivic Cottage retral the village of his descendants in Somerset, England. In 1816 James Austin and his cousin James Earl established the first trans-Derwent ferry service which remained the main transport route from Hobart Town to Launceston until completion of the Bridgewater causeway.
Derwent Tavern
Midland Hwy
Bridgewater TAS 7030
Telepstrop: (03) 6263 7243
Bridgewater Pizza
"Cove Hill Fair" Cove Hill Rd
Bridgewater TAS 7030
Telepstrop: (03) 6263 5655
Derwent Tavern
Midland Hwy
Bridgewater TAS 7030
Telepstrop: (03) 6263 7243
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