Kerewong Estate
In 1906 the NSW Government passed legislation to enable the construction of a railway connection from Maitland to South Grafton. Many owners of large land holdings along the route saw this as an incentive to subdivide their property…
Our Manning River: Industrial Heritage of Brown’s Creek (Crooked Creek), Taree
The creek has a long industrial history with ties to quarrying, railways and shipbuilding to name a few…
Our Manning River: Transformation of Brown’s Creek (Crooked Creek), Taree
It’s heartening to see that waterways once used as dumping-grounds are now valued by the community and restored to places of beauty and ecological health…
Our Manning River: 1978 Flood
Midday, Monday 20 March 1978 the Manning River at Taree hit a flood peak level of 5.45m just 15cms below the record flood of 1929…
Former Rural Bank of NSW, Taree
On Tuesday 25 June 1935 at 10am the newly built Taree branch of the Rural Bank of NSW opened for general business. The opening of the bank…
Manning River VJ Sailing Club
Sailing resumed on the Manning River after WW2. When the VJ Club was established in 1947 it occupied the North Coast Steam Navigation Company wharf…
The Browns and The Big Hairs
Each year on the third weekend in August in Montana USA, the Crow Fair begins. In 1992 during the Crow Fair, the Brown family from Taree were adopted into the Al and Ruby Big Hair family…
The Cloud Wallaby
The Cloud Wallaby is a fable written and illustrated by Pixie O’Harris. It was published in The School Magazine in August 1949. It goes something like this…
St Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Taree
On 28 July 1869 the Taree Presbyterian Church was opened by Rev. James Cameron of Richmond with the presiding minister Rev. J S Laing delivering the first sermon in the evening…
Dan Bros of Taree
‘Dan Bros’ was the first Lebanese family to set up business in Taree in 1932. Nicholas Dan arrived in Australia in 1927 with his brother Toufic ‘George’…