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EDITION

BOOKS

about

Forster,

Tuncurry

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nearby

villages.

 

 

 

LAND TRANSPORT

Transport was by Sea

The Tuncurry Road

Recalling 91 Years

Motor Vehicles Arrive

Rail Transport

The First Bus Service

 

THE RAILWAY OPENS

Taree (1913)

Era of Water Transport

Hawkesbury River Bridge

Proposed Coastal Railway Line

Taree Railway Opened (1913)

Decline of Coastal Shipping

Decline in the Timber Industry

Roads Verses Railways

TUNCURRY INDUSTRY

The Dairy Co-operative (1917)

Established

Electricity for Forster / Tuncurry

Closed

WALLIS LAKE

Fishermen's Co-operative (1947)

Starts (1947)

Voice of the Fishermen

1980

1998

THE FISHERMEN

of Cape Hawke Harbour

SHARK AND FISHY STORIES

Sharks

Killed with an Axe

Foster Beach Shark Attack

In The Lake and Rivers

Sawfish

The Largest

Others

Bull Ray

Bream

Fishermen's Luck

Prawns

Toss of a Coin

Subtropical Climate / Frozen Rivers

WHEN IT RAINED

Floods (1884, 1927, 1962)

What were the Flood Levels?

1884 Floods

1927 Floods

1962 Floods

Effects of Longer Breakwalls

THOMAS DOOKER

Kicks historic goal (2000)

Sydney Olympic Stadium

First Rugby League Games

Forster Tuncurry Under 9s Team

First Goal in the Stadium

CEMETERIES

Willow Point Cemetery

Old Forster Cemetery (Lakes Way)

Information Needed on Old Graves

Obituary - Donald Cameron

PIONEERS OF TUNCURRY

COOLONGOLOOK / TELERAREE

Early Explorers

Timber Cutters

The AA Company (1824)

Settlers Arrive (1860s)

Village of Coolongolook Proclaimed (1891)

Village of Teleraree Proclaimed (1885)

Gold in Teleraree

Timber and Agriculture

Postal Services (1878)

Church (1904)

Coolongolook Cemetery (1892)

Coolongolook School (1870s)

Coolongolook Hotels

Pioneer Families

DARAWANK

First Settlers in 1860s

Established Farms

Dryers Creek Butter Factory (1904)

Tuncurry Butter Factory (1920)

Decline of Butter Factories (1950s)

Refrigerated Milk vats on Farms (1960s)

Darawank Today

Pioneers of Darawank

FAILFORD

A Pioneer Family Home

The Breckenridge Family

Map of Failford Village

PIONEERS OF THE FAILFORD / NABIAC AREA

KRAMBACH

Krambach Settlers

Pioneer families

Post Office (1884)

NABIAC

Opening of Nabiac Bridge

Clarkin's Crossing

Bullock Drays Cross the River

Building a Causeway

THE FERN SHED, NABIAC

New Industry (1929)

Ferns as Dried Floral Arrangements

Used for Making Poison Gas?

For Brightening Homes

People and Method

Industry Revived After war

Use for War Time Camouflage?

Industry Closed

WANG WAUK

Origins and Spellings of Names

Wang Wauk

Krambach

Wallamba River

Nabiac

Bulahdelah

Not Villages

Australian Agricultural Company (1928)

Earliest Settlers

Schools

Churches

Community Hall

Race Course

Bridges

ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS

GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL MUSEUM

HELP IMPROVE THE BOOK AND MUSEUM

Acknowledgements

Dedication to 'Mick' Constable

Dedication to Dawn McMaster

 

 

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