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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CI9_vietnam-war-memorial_Tamworth-New-South-Wales.html
For Australia 1962 - 1973
Their bodies are buried in peace and their names liveth for evermore
Killed in ActionFromTamworth Region
213780 Pte Wilson M.A.F. 1 RAR 8 Jan 66
2781465 2 Lt Sharp G.C. 6 RAR 18 Aug 66
23916 Maj Bourne D.M.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C9Z_historic-stannum-house_Tenterfield-New-South-Wales.html
Stannum House
Built in 1888 "Stannum" Latin for tin, hence the owner, Mr. John Holmes Reid made the first of his fortune in tin mining.
Stannum is a Victorian-Italiante villa, triple brick, double airflow system with granite foundations si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C9Y_electric-street-lighting_Tamworth-New-South-Wales.html
Tamworth N.S.W. was the first town in Australia to introduce electric street lighting by means of two 18kw steam driven Crompton dynamos. Electricity was supplied to 52 street lights using 140 Swan incandescent lamps and 7 Crompton carbon arc lamp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C9T_historic-arnott-bakehouse_Morpeth-New-South-Wales.html
This historic Bakehouse was built by Richard Chapman during 1851. Chapman was a property owner, butcher and businessman of Morpeth whose residency extended from at least 1850 to his death in 1867. The building has technical value as a rare, authen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C9S_marine-parade_Manly-New-South-Wales.html
From this lookout, formally attired spectors (sic) watch a surf carnival against a sweeping panorama of thriving pines. Today high-rise buildings dwarf the trees, which were damaged by airborne pollution from North Head sewage works. Since the con…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C9J_lambie-street_Cooma-New-South-Wales.html
This marker consists of two plaques placed back to back.
In the 1850s Cooma was developing in two areas, one around Lambie and Mulach Street, the other over the hill where Centennial Park and Sharp Street are now. Nevertheless for the first twe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C9I_cooma-1890-cooma-1925_Cooma-New-South-Wales.html
This marker is made up of two panels placed back to back.
Cooma 1890
During the 1880s Cooma was expanding rapidly and Sharp Street had become the town's main thoroughfare, although settlement was still quite scattered. Some very substantial…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C9E_edwin-maw_Latrobe-Tasmania.html
The Lucas Platypus Experience is housed in a classified building on the register of the National Trust Estate. In 1858 George Atkinson built a licensed hotel "The Royal Charter Inn" on the present site. At the time he imported from Liverpool UK a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C9D_launceston-gasworks_Launceston-Tasmania.html
Lighting up Launceston
First established in 1858, the Launceston Gasworks charts the growth of the gas industry in Tasmania and the development of the city of Launceston itself.
The site was purchased in 1858 by the Launceston Gas Company w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C8K_pillar-of-stone_Fitzroy-Victoria.html
This pillar of stone quarried from Stawell was placed here on the insistence of The Hon. John Woods, M.P.(born Liverpool England November 5th 1822, died Brighton Victoria April 2nd 1892; engineer, politician and inventor, commissioner Internationa…