History Tour 2

Our second history tour started at the Warooka Museum. This used to be a police station. It was obvious that the owners of this building tried to make it look European because there were very thin painted lines on the stone wall making it look like it was made of bricks. We went in to look in the first room. The first room was the police station. It had old police batons, old phones, a wanted poster of Ned Kelly, a gun and a saber. The saber looked very deadly. When Moff unsheathed it, there was a high pitch vibration. You can just imagine what it would sound like if 200 sabers were unsheathed at the same time and being on the receiving end. The next room had a lot of World War 1 and World War 11 stuff like a bayonet knife, achievement badges, gas masks, dented water flasks used during the war, and a l lot of other interesting things. Moff told us a story about a relative of his how he was in the war and was shot so he went to the medics. The medics forgot to take a bandage out of his insides and sew him up with it inside him. in many years to come he eventually got diseases and things which resulted in an x- ray and surgery to take the bandage out. The next room we went in had a lot of old spices, lots of tobacco boxes, glass bottles used back a long time ago, and old medicines. Moff told us that when people got sick, they would have to sleep it off otherwise they will die. So the medicines were actually sleeping drugs. He also told us that if someone had an infected limb, it would get cut off because in those days they would die if they tried to treat the infections because they didn't know how to. Another room was an old style kitchen. This kitchen had old plates and lots of what would've been tinned food. One tin was a Milo tin. Two really interesting things were the old style fridge and a meat pantry. The old style fridge was wooden and had a part where you put in a giant cube of ice in to keep it cool. The meat pantry is made so no flies go in. It is put under a tree where it's cool. The meat should last for a few days. Outside there were old style tractors and equipment used on farms.

The next part of our history tour was to go see a cemetry. This cemetry was in the middle the bush and there wasn't any signs of towns or churches anywhere. The reason why it's in the middle of nowhere is graveyard was in the middle of nowhere was because these people wanted to be free when they die. It was very interesting just to sit there and look at the ages of the people in the graves, and guessing how they died and what they did in their lives.

• Earliest grave: 1878


• Percentage of young people (25yrs and under): about 70%

Epitahs:

In sadness we watched her lingering breath until she lay like a lily so lovely in death.

There is a Reaper, who's name is death, and with his sickie keen, he reaps the bearded grain at a breath and the flowers that grow between.

The night before the history tour, Moff told us a very interesting story which was set in Warooka a long time ago. This story was about a 15 year old girl called Amy. One time her parents went out to a dance and she was left in the house by her own with her little brothers. In the night. She was combing her hair when in the mirror she saw a very white person in the window behind her. This person had very white skin, blonde hair, and pale pink eyes. He used his fist to punch through this window to grab Amy. Amy screamed and ran out of the room and locked the door. She then gathered her little brothers and brought them into the middle room and locked every single door around it. This person got a wood chopping axe and started running around the house and slashed at all the doors. Luckily Amy's parents were on their way home on their horse carriage, and when they were in sight of the house, they heard Amy and the children screaming and a very white figure run into the woods. The person was never found... until a policeman went to this house and the people told him that they recently moved to Warooka, South Australia because there son was an albino. Because he was an albino they locked him up in the basement and let him out at night to do work around the house. After lots of talking the people and the policeman made a deal that the albino had to be taken care by the parents at all times. Many years later, Amy was a teacher and she was riding home on her horse until she was kidnapped by this albino. The albino kept her as a slave until she died. Amy's home was at Sandalwood Park and we went there with Moff. Eventually Amy's body was found and returned. Her grave is in the middle of what used to be a garden in her homes back yard. Her grave is a big rectangular prism pile of rocks. The house had a big stone fence surrounding the perimeter of the house to prevent aboriginals attacking but it didn't stop this albino. On the way back to Point Turton, we drove past what were the remains of the albino's house. And if you were to remove the ruble of stones, you would find the basement where the albino's parents would put him every single night.

This is the horse carriage that Amy's parents used