Burra – visit the 19th Century
Burra is an old mining and agriculture town in the Mid North of South History. It has become a history and heritage icon, with most of the original commercial buildings and houses still occupied and […]
Burra is an old mining and agriculture town in the Mid North of South History. It has become a history and heritage icon, with most of the original commercial buildings and houses still occupied and […]
Cobar is a mining town in the Mid-West of New South Wales. The local economy relies on gold and base metals mining. As a consequence, fortunes can fluctuate for the locals (approx. 4000). At its […]
There is always a sense of expectation when you turn down a country back road. […]
The more you search the Southern Downs, the more surprises you find. While the history of the full Darling Downs is a testament to the resilience, perseverance and vision of those early European settlers who […]
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 highway is named after Scottish explorer John McDouall Stuart, who was the first European to cross Australia from south to north. […]
The town was once known as Fassifern Scrub and then Engelsburg after the first settler of the town. […]
The Coorong is a long, narrow lagoon runing parallel with the coastal dunes for 140kms and has a beach that stretches 200km from Encounter Bay to Lacepede Bay, uninterrupted except when the mouth of the Murray […]
History of Warwick: Patrick Leslie and his two brothers originally settled in the area as squatters, naming their run Canning Downs. In 1847 the NSW government asked Leslie to select a site on his station […]
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