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A refreshed look at our amazing journey through time
Wattle Flat has an interesting colonial history like many other places, and this is the base for this look at our collective journey so far. It provides a starting point, a vantage point, a hilltop in the landscape – timescape from which to see more of the Wattle Flat district.
This website seeks to learn and share – an understanding of – the parts and whole of our living system through time.
Image of colonial gold miners in 1890’s at Solitary Mine, Wattle Flat.
Reflection bench on hill at Wattle Flat, overlooking farmland, goldfields & the Turon River valley. Part of the Wiradyuri traditional lands within Australia.
Image reflecting current scientific understanding of the tree of life on Earth
The current focal place is Wattle Flat NSW, from the perspective of 2019. Wattle Flat is as good a place as any with tangible links to: the modern era; colonial times; industry and agriculture; aboriginal culture; Australia’s unique flora & fauna; gold mineralisation; plate tectonics; formation of rocks; and much more.
Anything that has existed in the Wattle Flat district in the near past, or at any time before that is considered relevant. There is deliberately lots of flexibility in this definition.
This site will hopefully evolve into a network of stories on a range of interlinked themes. These stories seek to learn and share the truth, the real story, to the best of our ability.
Maybe this website will become: a valued repository of stories; a source of inspiration; an adjunct background against which to make respectful decisions.
This website may never be complete or finished. Like life it is free to evolve as long as it remains alive.
At its core, this is a reflection on the journey of life itself, surviving amid adversity and against probability.
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Stories About
- Wattle Flat Newsletter – Items of Historic Interest: In recent time a number of short articles have been collated & published. They are republished here.
- Information signs along the Solitary Site walking trails: A series of A3 posters tell stories that directly or indirectly related to the Solitary Reef Gold Mining Site in Wattle Flat. Modified versions of these are presented here.
Themes of Interest
- Evolution of Life
- Plate Tectonics
- The origin & nature of gold
- Changing climates
Historic Families - of the Gold-rush Era
An alphabetical listing of web pages dedicated to historic family groups with links to Wattle Flat. (Note – This is yet to be populated).
In parallel to this there is an Ancestry.com project titled “Wattle Flat 1850-1950”. (Note- This is currently in the early stages of development).
