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  2. Bothwell

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Bothwell.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Bothwell. Bothwell in 1878, unknown photographer (ALMFA, SLT). Bothwell (population 350) considers itself the 'gateway to the highlands', being the last service, educational and administrative town before the Central Plateau recreational area. It is
  3. Bridport

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Bridport.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Bridport. S. Bridport, 1950 (AOT, PH30/1/5747). Bridport is a popular holiday town on Tasmania's north coast. It was originally sited at the confluence of the Great Forester and Brid Rivers, but when 'The Cut' was put in, the Forester was diverted
  4. Evandale

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Evandale.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Evandale. Duncan Cooper's painting of Evandale, 1851 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Evandale is a small rural town in the northern midlands of Tasmania, some nineteen kilometres south of Launceston. It was originally established as a military post on
  5. Hamilton

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Hamilton.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Hamilton. Alfred Mault, 'Bridge over the Clyde at Hamilton', 1883 (ALMFA, SLT). Hamilton's first European settlers arrived in the 1820s. Occupying a strategic position as roads and agriculture developed, Hamilton became a transport centre. By the
  6. Kingston

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/Kingston.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Kingston. Undated postcard of Kingston Beach (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Kingston, an early rural area 12 km south of Hobart, supplied vegetables, fruit, meat, dairy and poultry to this city, but is now a suburb. The population in 2001 was 14,827. In
  7. Longford

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Longford.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Longford. JS PRout, 'Longford', 1844 (ALMFA, SLT). Longford, a small rural town in northern Tasmania, is the centre of a large farming district. Prior to European settlement the Panninher Band of the North Midlands Tribe of Aborigines frequented the
  8. Oatlands

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/Oatlands.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Oatlands. Oatlands and Lake Dulverton, undated postcard (Tasmaniana Library). Oatlands, on the shores of Lake Dulverton, was named and selected as a township by Governor Macquarie on 3 June 1821, and by 1827 a survey and street plan had been laid
  9. Richmond

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Richmond.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Richmond. 'Richmond, Tas. from Butcher's Hill', 1888 (ALMFA, SLT). Originally inhabited by the Moomairremener people, the Richmond district was explored by surveyor James Meehan, who named the Coal River after the coal he found there. Land grants
  10. Smithton

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Smithton.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Smithton. Undated postcard of Smithton (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Smithton was first settled in 1856, but growth was slow. Forestry brought life to the region, with a thriving trade to Victoria in blackwood timber from the 1880s. The Duck River
  11. Westbury

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Westbury.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Westbury. Postcard, c 1900, showing the villgae green and St Andrew's Church, Westbury (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Surrounded by hedgerows and lanes reminiscent of England, Westbury, like many other Tasmanian villages, was surveyed between 1823 and
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