MT. ROUSE & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC. ARCHIVE

Penshurst * Historical * Tourism * Western District

* Volcanic Trail * Victoria * Australia

Index:

 1. REMINISCENCES OF A PIONEER - by Charles Gray (Introduction and Chapter I uploaded 6/3/99)

 2. A VISIT TO MOUNT ROUSE - by George Augustus Robinson (first diary entry uploaded 20/4/99; closed 21/5/99)

 3. THE KRUMNOW SETTLEMENT - a religious commune near Penshurst 1852-80 (The first of 13 chapters uploaded 21/5/99)

 4. MEMORIES FROM PENSHURST'S PAST - by Jack Chesswas (Introduction "Starting Out in Penshurst" uploaded 20/8/99; closed 14/1/00).

 5.PENSHURST MOTORING PIONEERS - by Malcolm Grant (first chapter uploaded 16/10/99)

 6. PENSHURST REVISITED - by Murray Hedgcock (First chapter uploaded 30/12/99)

 7. CARAMUT HISTORY - by Chris Kinnealy (first uploaded November 1999; closed 28/1/00)

 8. LOST IN THE BUSH; Bury Native Who Became a Black Tribe Chief - closed 10/3/00.

  9. MY AUSTRALIA - by Ruth Pihl (first uploaded April 2000; closed 28/5/00)

10. RETROSPECTIVELY YOURS. From Motala to Penshurst - by Eric Pihl (first chapter uploaded June, 2000; closed 13/11/00)

11. ARTHUR COOK'S CHRISTMAS CARD 2000 - montage

12. MEMORABLE MOTORCYCLES - by Ruth Pihl (first chapter uploaded 18/12 2000; closed 27/1/01)

13. THE HATED PROTECTOR -Mount Rouse & District Historical Society wish to express our warmest thanks to Lindsey Arkley for allowing us to upload our president's BRIAN O'BRIEN recently published article in the Hamilton Spectator about the SBS journalist Lindsey Arkley's  book The Hated Protector. The book, subtitled The Story of Charles Sievwright protector of aborigines 1839-42 is published by Orbit Press, Melbourne 2000, and costs $39. It is a fascinating account of events that took place in our own Mount Rouse (subsequently Penshurst) area in the 1840's. Further details are available at www.orbitpress.com.au . The author can be contacted by e-mail to lindsark@ozemail.com.au . (first  instalment uploaded 16/2/01; serial closed 9/5/01)  

14. PATSY ADAM SMITH - by Brian O'Brien (first instalment uploaded Nov. 2001)

15. JOHN MCKIEHAN, Forming Member of the Municipal Association of Victoria - first instalment uploaded 23/8/2002

16. PENSHURST PAST AND PRESENT - by Ruth Pihl; address to Red Cross Conference, 12/4/2003

17. REMEMBERING CARAMUT - by Veronica Mary Hunt, 2004   

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Sunday, 05 June 2005