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“Gresford to Carrabolla - People and Places" by Dr Brian Walsh will be launched at 2pm on 16 March 2025 at Gresford Bowling Club, East Gresford.It covers the people and places along the Paterson River between Gresford and Carrabolla. The book reveals how a whole new European Society emerged along the river from the 1820s, albeit at the expense of the dispossession of Aboriginal people.
The book provides information on the land owners, convicts, immigrants and colonial born who worked on the estates or leased parts of them as tenant farmers. It features the many "selectors" who took up small blocks in the remote bushland, hills and mountains of the upper Paterson. Despite floods, poor roads and isolation, they made it their home. With hard work, bush skills and resilience, they raised families there.
The book highlights the formation of the schools, churches and post offices that became a vital part of the social fabric of the upper Paterson. It also shows the dramatic impact on the many famiies that lost their farms when Lostock Dam was built. This was followed by the drastic contraction of the dairy industry and the depopulation of the upper Paterson.
Further details about the launch will be provided closer to the event.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Park St, East Gresford, NSW, Australia, Maitland, Australia
