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  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Buddhism

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Buddhism.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Buddhism. In 1919 Frank Woodward, teacher and Pali scholar, settled in Tasmania and for thirty years devoted himself to translating the Pali scriptures. He was the first Buddhist to reside in Tasmania, though possibly some of the Chinese miners

  9. Religion

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Religion.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Religion. All things change, but only ideas have histories. Historical understanding of religious ideas of Tasmanians over the last two centuries requires often complex investigation of legal, statistical, social, cultural, economic and political

  10. Russians

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Russians.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Russians. Russian warships visit Hobart, 1882: the Afric, Plastown and Vestric (AOT, PH30/1/1809). The first official Russian visit took place in 1823 (Kreiser and Ladoga), followed by the Boyarin (1870), a Russian naval squadron (1882) and the

  11. Jackson's Lock and Brass Works

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/J/Jacksons.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Jackson's Lock and Brass Works. Launceston at the time Francis Jackson founded his business (AOT, PH30/1/3018). Jackson's Lock and Brass Works was founded in Launceston in 1883 by Francis Jackson. By the 1920s he sold his locks all over Australia,
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