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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
  12. Calvert Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Calvert.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Calvert Family. Undated label for a case of Calvert pears (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Free settler William Calvert arrived in 1832, and in 1851 he and his wife Hannah bought land at South Arm. The family prospered, receiving top prices for apples and
  13. Webster Limited

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Webster.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Webster Limited. AG Webster and Son's office in Hobart, 1910 (AOT, PH30/1/2447). Webster Limited began in 1831, when Charles Smith opened a wool and grain store in Hobart. His nephew Alexander George Webster joined the firm in 1850, and took over
  14. Seventh-day Adventist Church

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Seventh.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Seventh-day Adventist Church was established in Tasmania in 1888. The denomination originated in Michigan, USA in 1863, and in 1885 a group travelled to Australia and began preaching in Melbourne. After a church
  15. Fossils

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Fossils.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Fossils. The Fossil Cliffs at Maria Island, 1920 (AOT, PH30/1/2784). Tasmania has rocks of most ages during which obvious life existed and they tell the age of the rocks, of the environment in which they formed, how modern life evolved, and of
  16. Comalco

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Comalco.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Comalco. The Governor, Lord Rowallan, at the Comalco plant in 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/3569). The first aluminium smelter in the southern hemisphere was built at Bell Bay near George Town and commenced production in 1955. The impetus was the need for a
  17. Tioxide

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Tioxide.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Tioxide. The Titan Mill in 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/9049). Australian Titan Products Pty Ltd (the name changed to Tioxide Australia in 1972), a wholly owned subsidiary of British Titan Products Limited England, commenced operation in 1949 at Heybridge near
  18. Poverty

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Poverty.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Poverty. Photograph entitled 'Poor old Jimmy asking for 3d', Elwick Racecourse, 1920 (AOT, PH30/1/3633). There have always been those who have been in want, or lacking the means of reasonable subsistence. Poverty, however, is always relative and in
  19. Rostrum

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Rostrum.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Rostrum. Rostrum was founded in England in 1923 by journalist Sidney Wicks. The first Australian club was inaugurated in Sydney in 1930, and Rostrum was established in Tasmania in 1947. Clubs flourished in many parts of the state, with ten currently
  20. Shelter

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Shelter.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Shelter. The Tasmanian Aborigines used rock shelters from the earliest times, but left little trace of their structures; only on the inclement southern and south-western coasts were semipermanent buildings erected, with a framework of hoops, an
  21. Archery

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Archery.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Archery. Archery appeared formally in Tasmania in 1857 as a woman's sport, with clubs formed in Hobart, Launceston and the north-west. It fell from popularity in favour of tennis, but in the 1890s the New Town club was formed, with members competing
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