Church of Christ Taree
In June 1863, Jane Andrews, her husband Thomas, and Henry Western met together as the first members of the Church of Christ on the Manning River. They were joined by…
In June 1863, Jane Andrews, her husband Thomas, and Henry Western met together as the first members of the Church of Christ on the Manning River. They were joined by…
Taree Freemasons held their first meeting in the Protestant Hall (now a liquor store, 2024) in Manning Street on 4 October 1878…
The Loyal Orange Institution is a Protestant masonic order founded in Ireland in the 1790s. It aims to uphold and promote strict Protestant beliefs. In June 1874, a lodge known as “McGibbon”…
Scottish born Andrew Thomson was a baker by trade but after arriving in Taree in the mid 1850s he was encouraged to become a school teacher. Having taught at The Bight, Woolla and Ghinni…
A “beehive” implies a busy place with small compartments – an apt description for a department store “always humming with business”…
Speedboats from the festival swarmed the island as the plane continued to burn. Eric Henshaw and John Paine were among them. They scrambled up the bank…
The long-awaited Manning River District Hospital was designed by Sydney architects, Bolster and Hotson. In December 1888, James Bolster visited Taree…
Of the seven original shareholders of the Northern Champion Printing and Publishing Company Limited registered by David Cowan in 1912, one seems an odd fit…
While the other buildings down Pulteney Street slept, Taree’s Civic Theatre teemed with life. Its glass doors welcomed patrons into its newly formed entrance hall…
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