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The Historic Village of Harrisville in the Qld Scenic Rim.

19/01/2025 suggpixc 2

Harrisville is a rural village and locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland. In 1839, a survey of the areas then known as Normanby Plains (which now forms part of Harrisville), together with Wilsons Plains […]

Historic Mannahill in South Australia

15/01/2025 suggpixc 0

This article appeared in the Melbourne Argus on 22 October 1886 in the context of the goldrush to the Mannahill goldfields

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Iconic Heritage Architecture in the Town of Beaudesert, Queensland.

03/01/2025 suggpixc 0

The area around Beaudesert was originally settled for growing cotton and sheep. Due to the shortage of water in the area cotton was not a successful crop. Hoop pine was successfully collected in the region […]

The inland River Port of Morgan in SA

30/11/2024 suggpixc 0

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 […]

This Victorian Gold Town peaked in 1893.

23/08/2024 suggpixc 0

Clunes was the first town in Victoria to have a recognised gold discovery. It is about 40 Kms North of Ballarat and had a peak population in the 1870’s of 6300 people. Today that number […]

The Old Gold Fields of Paddy’s Flat

15/06/2024 suggpixc 0

Diggers flocked to the area from Tooloom in the early 1870’s however most of the local population had departed by 1890. Some went back to Tooloom to try their luck. There are no visible remains […]

The Historic Village of Bonalbo in NSW

11/06/2024 suggpixc 0

Bonalbo, a rural village in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, John Donald McLean was the first European to settle in the area. He was a Scotsman who moved his sheep up from […]

Yangan in the Southern Downs, Queensland

26/12/2023 suggpixc 0

Yangan is a quaint rural village (population about 200) at the base of the glorious Swanfels Valley, Yangan offers unique examples of late 1800s timber architecture.Previously named Upper Swan Creek, the town became known as […]

Clunes – Victorian Gold Rush Town

06/11/2023 suggpixc 0

Step back into the gold rush era in Clunes – Victorian Gold Rush Town with street-scapes straight out of a colonial history book. This picturesque and laid-back town was once the fifth largest in the […]

Another Collins Family Historic Church at Mundoolun, Queensland

23/10/2023 suggpixc 0

This was the first Church to be built on Station land by the Collins family. Details of the the second, at Tamrookum, are in the previous post. In 1842 William Humphries and Paul and Clem […]