Railways in Australia date from the 1831…the Great Northern Line
You can follow most of the “Great Norther Rail Line” by driving the New England Highway from Toowoomba to Wallangarra and further into NSW. […]
You can follow most of the “Great Norther Rail Line” by driving the New England Highway from Toowoomba to Wallangarra and further into NSW. […]
The property known as “Deloraine” is a heritage listed house built on two parcels of land which were first purchased in September 1858. The land was granted to Edmund Curry whose descendants still live in […]
Paddle steamers and paddle boats have been on the Murray River and in the Murray-Darling Basin since 1853 when William Randell launched the first steamer the P.S. Mary Ann near Mannum, South Australia. The first […]
Kerry is a farming locality between Beaudesert and the Lamington National Park. Kerry Road was the track to the Lamington National Park and a primary school opened in 1884 (it closed in 1943), the Kerry […]
Rural settlement commenced in 1843 with the arrival of squatter and explorer Henry Russell. The first sheep flocks arrived in the 1850’s. […]
The highway is named after Scottish explorer John McDouall Stuart, who was the first European to cross Australia from south to north. […]
McKinlay is in the remote north west of Queensland on the Landsborough Highway […]
I have been trying to do some research on the History of Tooraweenah, a tiny rural village of about 130 people on the lower western slopes of the Warrumbungles in NSW. The first store was […]
Australia’s oldest surviving gold-rush town, Sofala, is just 49 km from Bathurst in New South Wales. The village has only two streets, with most of the buildings in original condition. Edward Hargraves discovered gold nearby […]
The inland River Port of Morgan was once one of the busiest inland ports in Australia. It is located on the North-West Bend of the River Murray in South Australia, about 320 kms by water […]
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