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Wattle Flat Newsletter Items ( 2018-2019)
- Item 1 – Intro & Poem
- Item 2 – Early Roads in Wattle Flat
- Item 3 – The Prospect Inn
- Item 4 – Snapshot of Wattle Flat in 1893
- Item 5 – Prospector rescued by dog
- Item 6 – A Tribute to John Mini
- Item 7 – Bright’s Place
- Item 8 – Wattle Flat Bell – WWII memorial
- Item 9 – Wattle Flat Rainfall – Historic to 2018
- Item 10 – Agriculture in Wattle Flat – 1840’s to 1940’s
- Item 11 – Joseph Walford
- Item 12 – Thomas Denny
- Item 13 – 3 Generations of Pittendrigh
- Item 14 – Wattle Flat Observatory
- Item 15 – Wattle Flat Schools
- Item 16 – Oddfellows- Henry H Neary
Solitary Site Information Posters
- 1 – Early Years at Solitary – 1850’s
- 2 – Memorial to mine workers
- 3 – Solitary Underground
- 4 – Johnson & Campbell
- 5 – Brailey & Webb
- 6 – 1860’s development of the community at Solitary, Wattle Flat
- 7 – Early Schools in Wattle Flat
- 8 – 1872 Goldrush at Wattle Flat
- 9 – Washing gold from gravels, sands & soils – trapping the heavy grains
- 10 – Gold Extraction from quartz reef rock – more sophisticated machines required
- 11 – A succession of stamp batteries at the Old Solitary Mine
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- 14 – Modern man enters Australia about 65,000 years ago
- 15 – Formation of the local rocks & gold reefs (Palaeozoic Era)
- 16 – Great Basins with Dinosaurs (Mesozoic Era)
- 17 – “Nursery Australia” (Tertiary Period)
- 18 – Landform development (Tertiary Period)