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  2. Bicheno

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Bicheno.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Bicheno. Undated postcard of Bicheno (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Bicheno was named after the Colonial Secretary of Van Diemen's Land, James Ebenezer Bicheno. About 1803, sealers and whalers used Waub's Boat Harbour, as Bicheno was known, for shelter.

  3. Kempton

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/Kempton.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Kempton. Green Ponds in 1841: small, but a major stopping-place on the Main Road (ALMFA, SLT). Kempton was originally home to the Big River tribe of Aboriginal people, who retreated from their land when European settlers arrived in the 1820s. The

  4. Latrobe

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Latrobe.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Latrobe. Undated postcard of Latrobe's Memorial Post Office Reserve (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Latrobe commenced in 1836 as a farming district. During 1858 a bridge, brewery and public house were established to cater for the needs of local sawyers,

  5. Penguin

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Penguin.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Penguin. Penguin in the 1880s (ALMFA, SLT). Penguin was not settled until 1860, as travel along the coast between the Leven and Blythe rivers was nearly impossible due to dense bush, and there was no sizable river mouth for safe anchorage. Land

  6. Railton

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Railton.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Railton. The road into Railton, 1900 (AOT, PH30/1/3355). Railton, 25 kilometres from Devonport, was first known as Redwater Creek. Its present name originated when the Mersey-to-Deloraine tramway line went through the town in the 1860s. When this

  7. Stanley

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Stanley.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Stanley. Stanley and The Nut in 1870 (AOT, PH30/1/468). Stanley's site was chosen by the Van Diemen's Land Company for the first European settlement in the north-west, because it was the only one with the necessary sheltered deepwater anchorage and

  8. Strahan

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Strahan.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Strahan. Undated postcard of Strahan (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Strahan, situated near the entrance to Macquarie Harbour, was founded in 1880 and largely established by Frederick Henry, owner of the historic homestead Orminston. It developed as a

  9. Swansea

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Swansea.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Swansea. Undated postcard of Swansea (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). The first Tasmanians came regularly to Swansea, drawn by the mild winters. Tasman, French explorers, and sealers and whalers also came, and The Fisheries at Coles Bay was once a whaling

  10. Wapping

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Wapping.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Wapping. Wapping scene, 1900 (AOT, NS1013/1/305). Wapping was the unofficial name for a closely-settled working class district alongside Hobart's first wharf. Like its London namesake by the Thames, it was a low-lying, flood-prone district dominated

  11. Wynyard

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Wynyard.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Wynyard. Undated postcard of Wynyard (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Three ex-convict Alexander brothers established a settlement, Alexandria, on the west, or Table Cape, side of the Inglis River in the 1850s. They bought large areas of farmland on Table
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