Then and Now – Mountain Stories

Here are a few old and new snaps from searches that didn’t make it into our blogs.

Maynes/Orient Tin Mine – Heemskirk

Trial Harbour to Zeehan

About 1890 – dray track (Photo Anson Brothers)²

2024 – Trial Harbour Road with Mt Agnew in the background (Photo I Hayes)

Wurragarra Creek, Mount Pillinger in the background – Mole Creek Track

1898, March – Trackcutters’ tent (Photo Stephen Spurling III)³

Linda Track near Mount Arrowsmith – search for John Largan’s grave

Then – (Photo – date and source not known)

Above Pine Hut Plain, Upper Mersey – Search for Mole Creek to Zeehan Railway Survey

1891 – Dean Bluff and Priemer Peak from a sketch in a Field Book of Mole Creek to Zeehan Railway Survey (Archives Tasmania⁴)

Mount Pelion copper mine on Pelion Plains

1898, March –Mount Ossa and Doris in the background. (Photo – Stephen Spurling III)⁵

Mathinna – Gold Mining

St Georges, Anglican Church

Main Street, Mathinna

1902 – General Store (Photo F Williamson)⁷

Tasmanian Consolidated Mine, Mathinna

1 L Lawry Waterhouse, Department of Mines, Geological Survey Bulletin No.21, The South Heemskirk Tin Field, 1916, page 371.
2 Anson Brothers, Hobart – West Coast Road – Dundas – bridge over creek with horses and dray on bridge, Item NS869/1/18, Tasmanian Archives.
3 Mole Creek Track, Illustrated Supplement to the Launceston Examiner, Launceston Examiner, July 9, 1898.
4 Surveyors’ Field Books relating to Various Railways – Mole Creek – Zeehan Line, PWD231/1/184, Tasmanian Archives.
5 Mole Creek Track, Illustrated Supplement to the Launceston Examiner, Launceston Examiner, July 9, 1898.
6 Parish Registers, Administrative Records and Building Plans of the Anglican Church in Tasmania, Church – St Georges, Mathinna, NS373/1/277, Archives Tasmania.
7 Weekly Courier, 12 July 1902.
8 Weekly Courier, 26 November 1904.

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