south of the current town - a site unsuitable due to lack of permanent water. The town was renamed Evansdale in 1829, after the surveyor George William Evans, and then Evandale in 1836. The incongruity of the town being sited 3 km away from its officially named and surveyed boundaries was reconciled when new town boundaries were circumscribed and the town, and region, officially recognised as Evandale by Governor Denison in 1848. Many continued to call it Morven beyond mid-century, including in official contexts and in newspaper articles. The name Morven is retained in the name of the local football and recreation ground 'Morven Park'. The 1830s saw the beginning of a proposed water supply scheme from the South Esk at Evandale via tunnel, viaduct and aqueduct to Launceston, which regularly suffered diminishment of supply in summer. Tunnel works were begun on the western and southern slopes of the hill but the scheme never reached fruition as the engineering proved too difficult and had resulted in the death of a tunneller. The first inn was recorded as opening in 1832, the New River, which was later rebuilt as the Patriot King William the Fourth - later renamed the Blenheim, now Blenheim House. Another old tavern was the Ingleside, now rebuilt as the Ingleside bakery. The oldest public house still trading is the Prince of Wales Hotel, which was built in 1836, although it is substantially altered from the original. Evandale Post Office opened on 1 June 1835 and remains a fine old building. In 1835, sixty-six of the leading citizens petitioned the governor to appoint a clergyman to the district. Governor John Franklin came to lay the foundation stone of the first church in 1838, which also served as a schoolroom. In 1876, the Tasmanian Main Line Company opened a narrow (1,067 mm) gauge line from Hobart to Evandale where it connected with the broad (1,600 mm) gauge Launceston and Western Railway from Launceston and Deloraine, built in 1871. It remained a break-of-gauge station until the Evandale-Deloraine line was converted to narrow gauge in 1888. Statues In Evandale Numerous statues are found in Evandale including: Harry Murray in Memorial Park (highly decorated World War I soldier) An anonymous penny-farthing rider on the corner of Russell and Scone Streets John Glover in Falls Park Notable people from Evandale Steve Biddulph - parenting author Bob Cheek - former State Opposition leader John