Settlement

Pioneer Memorial 

Gates commemorate the early pioneers of the Coleraine district.

Commemorates the pioneers of Booleroo Centre

The "Bolt" sculpture was commissioned by the School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania to mark the city of Launceston's 2006 'It's About Us' celebrations.

"It's About Us 2006" , was a year long celebration that marked 200 years of European settlement of Launceston and recognised more than 35,000 years of Aboriginal settlement in the Tamar area.

Sandstone relief sculpture symbolises the origins and settlement of the colony. "First Impressions" was commissioned by the Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority in 1979.

 Commissioned with the support of Sydney's Chinese community, the sculpture represents an anchor and a ship with sails unfurled. It was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth 11 on 23 February 1992. The sculpture celebrates the initiative of Viscount Sydney who sent the First Fleet in 1787 and after whom the the city of Sydney is named. it also marks the Chinese Community's early contribution to the city. 

Plaque unveiled during Western Australia's centenary celebrations in 1929. It commemorates the first white residents home in the district in 1832.

"Coming and Going " by Sasha Reid commemorates the 6000 child migrants from the United Kingdom and Malta. Around 6000 former child migrants were sent to Australia from child care institutions in the UK and Malta throughout the 20th century. These children were placed in charitable and religious institutions throughout Australia, and went on to make a valuable contribution to our society

Commissioned by St Martins Properties Pty Ltd the five unique bronze statues in the Footsteps in Time Sculptures commemorate the 175th anniversary of Western Australia and symbolise the business people who have built the CBD.

Anchor commemorates the ship "John Pirie" after which the town is named

The monument 'La Famiglia' is the result of collaboration between the Basilicata Region, the City of Canada Bay and Associazione Lucania of Sydney. This work symbolises the presence of Italians in Australia and the contribution given by them to the material and moral growth of this Country.

The initiative was taken by the Associazione Lucania of Sydney, in particular by its Federal President, Joe Di Giacomo, who wanted to fulfil the wish of his brother Donato, who passed away.

Life size bronze sculpture created by Terrance Plowright was gifted to Australia as a celbration of immigration. The sculpture  is located at Pyrmont Wharves 12 and 13 which was Sydney's reserve passenger terminal until 1994 and where many immigrants in the 1950s and 1960s first stood on Australian soil.

The sculpture was originally commissioned by Paul Signorelli to represent three generations of his family. Immigrant Biaggio Signorelli, from Sicily in Italy, landed here in 1954 as did his wife to be, Filipa in 1963. They raised a large dynamic family that went on to grow Doltone House, a collection of event venues around Sydney including one here in the redeveloped wharf building behind the sculpture.

Statue commonly known as "Mick the Miner" commemorates the 125th anniversary of the establishment of Cooktown.

On 14 August 1872, William Hann`s exploration party found gold in the bed of the Palmer River. His reports of the find led to the establishment of Cooktown and a rush to the Palmer goldfields. George Dalrymple was dispatched to investigate the feasibility of a port on the Endeavour River. Before receiving his report, the Leichhardt was sent with Government staff and prospective settlers. Dalrymple`s party arrived at the Endeavour River on 24 October 1873. The Leichhardt steamed into the harbour one day later on 25 October. On board were Archibald Campbell MacMillan an engineer, who was to establish the overland track to the goldfield and seventy nine miners. As an alluvial field the Palmer River reached its peak in 1875. By 1886 it had declined and the fevered rush to mine its rivers, creeks and hills was almost over. Hard rock mining began in January 1876 and the last of the hard rock miners, Sam Elliot, died at his mine in 1986. Despite the shortness of its reign as `The Queen of the North` the Palmer was an exceedingly rich field. Total production was in excess of 5.5 million pounds sterling ($11m). 94% of this sum was derived from alluvial workings with the remaining six percent coming from reefs.

A stone and water sculpture marks Plateia Hellas (Plateia meaning town square and Hellas being the Ancient Greek name for Greece), an area between Aberdeen and Newcastle Streets that was designed to acknowledge and celebrate the Greek community in Northbridge.

Around the time of World War I, as the elite began to move out of the area, Northbridge became a hub of European immigration, especially Greek and Macedonian.  In the 1950s, post-war European migration brought with it a culture of outdoor coffees and al-fresco lifestyle.

The first Greek Church, the Greek Orthodox Church of Saints Constantine and Helene, was built in 1937 in what is now known as Northbridge. It soon became an integral part of the Greek community and a well known landmark within Perth.

Commemorates the soldier settlement of "Ravenswood Estate" in 1952.

" The Beacon"  sculpture was given to the people of Sydney by James Fairfax, in 1992, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first meeting of the Sydney City Council and the city's incorporation.

A display of the rescue boat the "The Gig" commemorates the pioneers of the district.  

"The Gig" was a rescue boat built as a response to the February 1893 floods, which the Lowood community raised funds for its purchase.   The boat was used for rescuing flood victims and the transporting of supplies to isolated homes.

The sculpture "Walking Together " honours the memory of pioneer women.

The memorial commemorates the first settlement of the area.  Known as "The Crossing " it pays tribute to Henry Dennis and other pioneers, teamsters and settlers. It was here that a camp was established on what would eventually become the township of Dalby by Henry Dennis, who was seeking out land on behalf of his wealthy employer Charles Coxen.

Commemorates one hundred years of settlement in the Cardwell Shire.

Commemorate 100 years of settlement in the Marnoo District from 1873 to 1973

Plaque commemorates the centenary of the declaration of the town of Sydney as a city.

European settlement dates from 1788 when the soldiers and convicts of the First Fleet dropped anchor at Sydney Cove. Sydney began its life as a penal colony, with free settlers arriving from 1793. Early industries included whaling, sealing and shipping of wool. After the crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813, growth began to increase. In 1842, shortly after transportation of convicts to New South Wales was abolished, Sydney was declared a city.

Commemorates the 125th anniversary of the Fish Creek township

 Plaques erected at the spots where two time capsules were buried to  commemorate the 125th anniversary of the gazettal of Broome townsite in 1883. One time capsule buried by Mr Kim Male, Freeman of the Municipality of Broome is to be opened in 2083. The other buried by the children of Broome is to be opened in 2033.

In 1883, John Forrest selected the site for the town, and it was named after Sir Frederick Broome, the Governor of Western Australia from 1883 to 1889. Broome was gazetted as a townsite on the 27th November 1883. 

Plaque commemorates the 125th anniversary of the declaration of the town of Sydney as a city.

European settlement dates from 1788 when the soldiers and convicts of the First Fleet dropped anchor at Sydney Cove. Sydney began its life as a penal colony, with free settlers arriving from 1793. Early industries included whaling, sealing and shipping of wool. After the crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813, growth began to increase. In 1842, shortly after transportation of convicts to New South Wales was abolished, Sydney was declared a city.

Time capsule commemorates the 125th anniversary of the municipality

Commemorates 150 years of European Settlement in Hobart.

The first European settlement in the Hobart area began in 1803 as a penal colony and a defensive outpost at Risdon Cove, officially named Hobart on the eastern shores of the Derwent River. This was undertaken under British concerns over the presence of French explorers in the South Pacific.  It began as a collection of tents and huts, with a population of 178 convicts, 25 marines, 15 women, 21 children, 13 free settlers and 10 civil officers.

In 1804 the settlement was moved was moved to a better location which was named "Hobart's Town" at the present site of Hobart at Sullivans Cove, making it the second oldest city in Australia.

 Commemorates 150 years of the settlement of Mathoura from 1846 to 1996

The bust of the the founder of Naracoorte, William Macintosh was commissioned by the Naracoorte Jubilee 150 Committee to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of Naracoorte

Commemorates the 150th Anniversary of the founding of the state of West Australia.

The Swan River Colony was a British settlement established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia. In 1832, the colony was officially renamed Western Australia, when the colony's founding Lieutenant-Governor, Captain James Stirling, belatedly received his commission. However, the name "Swan River Colony" was used informally for many years afterwards.

Sculpture of a girl in period dress commemorates the 150th anniversary of the gazettal of Mornington township.

 Plaque unveiled during Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee visit ot Australia commemorates the 150th anniversary of the first British settlement in Western Australia. 

On the 9th of November 1826, Major Edmund Lockyer, together with a contingent of convicts, soldiers, a surgeon and storekeeper, left Sydney aboard the 'Amity' bound for King George III Sound. The Amity arrived on Christmas Day 1826.

Lockyer selected the site of what is now known as Albany for the crown and thus formed the first Western Australian settlement. Major Lockyer named his new town 'Frederickstown', after King George III's second son, His Royal Highness Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany - 'The Grand Old Duke Of York'.

Albany was settled some three years before the Swan River colony, later to be known as Perth.

A carving of a pioneer commemorates 150 years since Mcarthur was declared a town

Commemorates 150 years of the settlement of Murrumburrah 

Tree commemorates the 150th anniversary of the settlement of Koroit

Monument commemorates the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of Binda as a village, and past and present residents of Binda and district 

Binda is the oldest settlement in the area. Police were stationed at Binda in 1840 due to the number of bushrangers in the area. They set up a residence, lock-up and horse paddocks on the townsite.  The village was gazetted in 1851 and one of NSW's earliest national schools opened here in that year. Until the 1880s it was the main administrative centre of the district. The shire's first post office, government school, courthouse and police station were set up here.

Park which consists of a number of windmills commemorates the 150th anniversary of the township of Beeac . A pavilion covered in informative displays show the history of not only the windmills but how the town has evolved over its 150 years

The park contains examples of the work of the six manufacturers known to have conducted business there from the 1890s to the 1940s. All the windmills on display were donated by property owners in the district and restoration work was carried out by local Dick Shinners, a retired general engineer.

Beeac was originally created as a reserve for campers, and the name is thought to mean either "salt lake" or "grubs" in the local Aboriginal language. From 1860, the area was opened for selection and a townsite was surveyed in 1864.

Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the founding of Costerfield in 1861.

The Costerfield veins were discovered in the 1860s and have been mined for both gold and antimony, most extensively during two periods: 1860 – 1883 and 1904 – 1925. Ongoing exploration and intermittent small scale production continued during the period 1934 – 1980. Since 1983,  the Costerfield deposits have undergone more extensive exploration, resulting in the construction of a processing plant in 1995 to re-treat tailings and the oxide portion of the Brunswick deposit which was mined by open pit methods. In the period 1975 – 1981 the Augusta deposit was discovered with continued exploration and resource definition drilling resulting in the completion of a successful feasibility study and development of the Augusta underground mine in 2006.

 

Plaque commemorates the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Australia in 1788.

Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the naming of the township of Seymour in November 1843

Three trees planted on Australia Day 1963 commemorate the 175th anniversary of the foundation of the first settlement in Australia on the shores of Sydney Cove by Governor Arthur Phillip in 1788.

Cairn commemorates the pioneers and the first Christian service at Eureka held nearby on the 25th July-1883.

Plaque commemorates the survey seeking potential grazing land in the Gibb River region.

This survey was considered to be the last of the old style, using horses and donkeys for transport during exploration. Aims of the survey expedition were to seek potential grazing land in the Gibb River area, find a suitable port site in Napier Broome Bay and to survey and cut a rough road from Gibb river Station to Kalumburu.

Plaque commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Proclamation of the City.

Commemorates the 50th anniversary of Mount Gambier being declared a city 

A park seat commemorates the 50th anniversary of Mount Gambier being declared a city  

Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the township.

The area around Onslow was first settled in the early 1880s by graziers who brought sheep into the area. In 1883 the town was founded and named after Sir Alexander Onslow (1842-1908), the chief justice of Western Australia at the time. The discovery of gold on the Ashburton River in the 1890s gave the town a brief boost but the town was destroyed by a cyclone in 1926 and relocated to its present site on the Beadon River shortly afterwards.

Plaque commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the unveiling of the Dog on the Tuckerbox statue dedicated to the pioneers of Gundagai.

The Pioneers Memorial at Addington formally remembers the original settlers. The Aboriginal plaque in the shape of a boomerang remembers the original inhabitants of the area. 

Monument commemorating the starting point of the survey of Adelaide, the sites of the first public offices of land and survey and the homes of the first Surveyor-General and Resident Commissioner, North Terrace, Adelaide

Memorial cairn at the site of the Adelphi homestead.

The Adelphi homestead was built by the Bussell Family , who were pioneers of the area. Ironically, the homestead burnt down on Guy Fawkes Day in 1833.

From the 1860s to the 1920s approximately 3,000 Muslim cameleers came to Australia, mainly from the hills and plains of Afghanistan and British India, which today is Pakistan.  They opened lines of supply, transport and communication between isolated settlements. 

Monument and Park commemorate contribution to town of Afghan Cameleers. Alice Springs Council wanted to more formally recognise the role of the Cameleers in developing the region and as a part of the diverse community so renamed the park around the Civic Centre. The Cameleer`s Islamic faith also found a home here.

In 1921 the semi-retired Cameleer Saleh (Charlie) Sadadeen leased the block which now houses the Council`s Civic Centre. Sadadeen was born in the Punjab, northwest India, and arrived in Alice Springs in 1890 after ten years in Australia and previous service in the British Army as a Cameleer. Two tall date palms outside the Council Civic Centre were planted in 1916 by Walter Smith who worked with the cameleers bringing supplies from the railhead at Oodnadatta.

In front of the palms is a monument and seat, built in the 1980`s, dedicated to the Cameleers. The wording on the plaque on the monument is difficult to read. The park was rededicated in 2001 and a plaque was added to the seat in 2002 commemorating the last camel train. 

Commemorates the re-enactment and centenary of the Afghan cameleers trek and recognises the contribution of the Afghan community to inland Australia.

Plaque in memory of pioneering Afghan Cameleers who indirectly serviced Australia's outback for 50 years. The Standpipe Hotel was originally a watering place for teamsters and camels. Another plaque unveiled on the 14th May 1988, commemorates the re-enactment of the Afghan Cameleers Trek. 

The introduction of camels and the so-called 'Afghan' cameleers proved to be a turning point in the exploration and development of the Australian interior.

For a short period of time from the 1860s to the early 1900s, these cameleers and their 'ships of the desert' became the backbone of the Australian economy. They accompanied exploration parties, carrying supplies and materials where horses and oxen could not. They carted supplies, mail and even water to remote settlements. They transported the supplies, tools and equipment needed for the surveying and construction of some of Australia's earliest, and greatest, infrastructure projects, such as the Overland Telegraph and Trans-Australian Railway.

The Afghan Camels Silhouette is a tribute to the Afghan cameleers and the pioneering spirit of the Wyndham Area.

The Afghan Cameleers played a significant role in the development and settlement of the Kimberley region and particularly in and around the Wyndham area. Once gold was discovered at Halls Creek and Wyndham was proclaimed a port, the Cameleers were required to move goods and supplies from the port to the Goldfields. They interacted well with Aboriginal people and many Aboriginal descendents of Wyndham owe their mixed heritage to this interaction.

Afghan Mosque memorial commemorates the camel drivers who opened up the inland. It was renovated in 1968 by the Broken Hill Historical Society as a recognition of the importance of the Afghan cameleers mode of transport for the western Darling District of New South Wales.

The Mosque is situated on the site of the former `Camel Camp` where Afghan and Indian Camel drivers loaded and unloaded their camel teams, from the earliest days of Broken Hill. The Mosque was constructed around 1891 as a place of worship for the followers of the Prophet Mohammed (or Mahomet). The camel drivers who built the mosque were actually Indians. They came from Sindh (now part of Pakistan with Karachi as its capital) and Balochistan (once under Alexander the Great, and now bordering Iran, Afghanistan and the Sindh province). The Moslem Temple of Broken Hill is the only surviving Mosque in Australia which was built by early cameleers.

Commemorates the centenary of the first settlers at Wogonga Heads.

Memorial in cemetery to early settlers who lie in unmarked graves.

Aldersyde Pioneer Memorial Church

Land for a proposed townsite at the 18½ mile peg on the Brookton-Kunjin Railway (Kunjin being near Corrigin) was resumed from four properties in 1913. One of the properties, owned by Mr Frederick Pyke was named "Aldersyde", and this name was suggested as the name of the town by the local progress association in 1914. Nuralgin and Markegin were other names considered, and Aldersyde was gazetted in 1915.

Memorial commemorates the Aldgate Pump after whom the town was named.

The Aldgate area was surveyed and subdivided into sections and allotments during 1857. It had become firmly established on 23 July 1864 when Richard Dixon Hawkins, son of a London publican, who had arrived in South Australia on the Lady Fitzherbert in 1842, opened his Inn. It began as a Coaching Inn on the way to the Echunga Diggings in 1852. To attract as many visitors and customers as possible Hawkins, placed a water pump outside the Inn so men and beast could have a drink.

Memorial fountain dedicated to the centenary of settlement of the Alstonville district.

On the 21st of December 1865 Andrew Freeborn and his brother became Duck Creek Mountain`s (as Alstonville was originally called) first selectors. Andrew became the first person from the area to commercially sell butter in Sydney. It was shipped in wooden kegs to Sydney by ship. He also grew arrowroot. Andrew Freeborn, along with John Barlow, Martin Schmidt, Frank Morrish and G.T. Kemp applied for a school in Alstonville. Alstonville Primary School opened on the 11th of January 1875.

Ship built to commemorate European settlement in Western Australia but also as a tribute to sailing ships.

The Amity Brig was built in North America in 1816 and had carried convicts , whalers , explorers, farmers and settlers to various parts of Australia from Queensland to Western Australia. The first European settlers to West Australia were carried in the `Amity` from Port Jackson to King George Sound stepping ashore at Albany on Boxing Day 1826.

Marks the discovery of the creek by Ensign Robert Anderson where settlers from Norfolk Island established farms

The  Soldier Settlement Monument commemorates the Ardachy Estate established on February 14th, 1947 for the Returned Servicemen and their families.The estate consists of 9,324 acres which was subdivided into 15 allotments.

Graves at Argyle homestead of Durack Family members and station hands commemorate the early pioneers

The Duracks fled famine and subjugation in Ireland, coming to Australia in 1853 in search of opportunities and a future. Hungry for property, Pat Durack sent the family across the continent from Queensland to the unexplored reaches of the Kimberley. They occupied land the size of Belgium and dispossessed the original inhabitants. Having claimed their property, the Duracks, over successive generations would struggle to survive and one by one their stations foundered.

Significant monument to early settlers and the influence of the Church which commemorates the first Christian service.

The Public Works Department approved demolition of fencing around the Armidale Court House and the erection of a tourist sign board in April 1945 and in  May, Council agreed to co-operate with the Church of England with planned  celebrations of the first service in Armidale. The Justice Department was then asked by Council in May 1945 to dedicate a small piece of land in the grounds as close as possible to the site of the service. In August Council approved a building plan for a  memorial cross in the court house grounds to commemorate the first Christian church service held in Armidale on 12 October. The grey granite celtic cross was dedicated on Friday 12 October 1945 and was witnessed by 'a large crowd, including clergymen from all parts of the Diocese of Armidale'.

 

The Village Green refers to the narrow park alongside Artarmon Station. It was originally part of the land put aside for the building of the North Shore Railway, and is now leased by Council from Railcorp. It was dedicated by Council on 21 September 1968.

The site demonstrates the history of the early settlement of the Ashcroft area. It is associated with an early prominent family, the Ashcrofts who gave their name to the locality. The site is also associated with the now demolished St Lukes Rectory. The grand entrance gates are an aesthetically pleasing memorial and are rare within the wider Liverpool area.

Monument erected in memory of the pioneers.

The area was officially settled by Europeans in 1830 after the establishment of the Swan River Colony.New settlers who had arrived in Fremantle on the "Warrior" on 12th of March, 1830 were hoping to take up land near the Swan River Colony but, Lieutenant-Governor James Stirling, knowing that all of the fertile land had already been taken up, persuaded the settlers to move south, to an area near Cape Leeuwin. Captain Molloy, a small military detachment and about thirty settlers headed south and arrived in an area near the Blackwood River .

The site was named, Augusta, by James Stirling in May 1830, in honour of Princess Augusta Sophia, the second daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte.

The Tourist Information Centre was erected in 1988 to commemorate the Bi-centenary of the settlement of Australia 

A monument was erected at the site of the former Cope Cope Park State School to commemorate the bi-centenary of European settlement in Australia 

A flagpole commemorates the Bicentenary of the European settlement of Australia 

Commemorates the Australian Bi-Centennial

Commemorates the Bicentennial of the European settlement of Australia 

Drinking fountain as a Jubilee memorial to the founders of the local Australian Natives Association.

The Australian Natives` Association was founded in Victoria in April 1871 as a Friendly Society with a difference. Its membership was restricted to those born in Australia - hence the name `natives`. By 1871, there was an increasing number of native-born Australians who did not have the same nostalgic ties to Britain as previous generations. T

here was also a perception amongst the native born that they were second class citizens in their own land. Positions of influence were always held by men born in Great Britain. The Australian Natives` Association (ANA) continued for one hundred and twenty-two years until September 1993, when it merged with Manchester Unity Friendly Society to become Australian Unity Friendly Society.

Memorial honours all Celtic people who helped pioneer Australia. The memorial of 24 * 3 metre stones is arranged as a calendar and is based on Ring Brodgar in the Orkney Islands, Scotland.

It was in Australia`s 1988 Bicentenary Year that the Celtic Council of Australia developed the idea of erecting a national monument to honour all Celtic peoples who helped pioneer Australia. Glen Innes responded with a 46-page submission for Australian Standing Stones, inspired by the Ring of Brodgar in Scotland`s Orkneys. When viewed from above the arrangement of the Australian Standing Stones also incorporates a Celtic Cross and the Southern Cross. The former indicates that the monument was erected in Christian times, the latter symbolises the heritage link between the old Celtic civilisation and the new.

Monument to the Australind Land Settlement.

Australind was the site of an unusual and ambitious land scheme during the 1840s. In 1840-41, only a little over a decade after the establishment of the Swan River colony, the newly formed Western Australian Land Company purchased land in the area and surveyed a town site which they named as a kind of bizarre combination of Australia and India. There was already a horse breeding station in the area and it was hoped that the horse trade would be the beginning of a continuing trade relationship between Australind and India.

The first settlers arrived in 1841 and by the following year over 440 immigrants had settled in the area Marshall Walter Clifton was appointed Chief Commissioner. The plan was to divide a huge land grant of over 40 000 ha into small farming lots of 40 ha and establish an English style village in the centre of this project. The philosophy behind the plan was similar to that of Edward Gibbon Wakefield who had developed the notion of settlements for ordinary citizens to ease the burden of poverty which characterised so much of English society at this time. In the case of Western Australia the settlement had the added bonus of providing the infant colony with a much needed labour force. The settlement was short-lived and had been abandoned by 1843.

Plaque commemorating "Back to Campbell Town "celebrations

Plaque commemorates European settlement of Bankstown which originated with Governor Hunter establishing some marines and naming the area Bankstown in honour of Sir Joseph Banks. Major George Johnston of the New South Wales Corps, was granted 172 acres on the 16th April 1798 and it was on this site that his first homestead was built and named Georges Hall.

Plaque commemorates European settlement of the district in 1795, just seven years after the first settlement at Sydney Cove.

Governor Hunter commissioned Matthew Flinders (then a Royal Navy midshipman), and George Bass (a surgeon), together with the boy servant called William Martin, to explore the `western arm` (Georges River) of Botany Bay to see if the area was hospitable. The trio sailed the winding course of the Georges River aboard an eight-foot craft called the Tom Thumb. They sailed 20 miles beyond any previous survey and landed at what is now known as Garrison Point, located at Georges Hall. Following their favourable report on the area Governor Hunter decided to make it a settlement, and at a later date, named the area Banks` Town in honour of Sir Joseph Banks, who sailed with Captain James Cook aboard the `Endeavour` on Cook`s voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771.

Plaque commemorates the centenary of the town of Barellan. Barellan was proclaimed a township in 1909.

Commemorates the pioneers of Barossa.

Neuschlesien, New Silesia or Bethanien and later Bethany, about 2 kilometres from Tanunda in the Barossa Valley, was established by a group of Lutheran migrants who arrived with Pastor Gotthard Daniel Frietzsche in 1841. Most of these 270 immigrants had come from Posen and Silesia. After their arrival at Port Adelaide on the Skjold, on 27 October, the majority of them moved to the established German settlements of Hahndorf and Klemzig. The young colony of South Australia had now more than 1,800 German immigrants among its population of 14,000.

Early in 1842 nearly a hundred of this group of migrants were joined by other Lutherans, already living at Hahndorf, to establish the first village in the Barossa Valley on land the local Aborigines referred to as Taninda. About 2080 acres were leased, and later bought, from George Fife Angas to start their new venture. The remaining members who had come on the Skjold founded Lobethal in the Adelaide Hills. The settlement of Bethany in 1842 was arranged by Angas` second agent, Forster, and in the first year, 28 Lutheran families, comprising 117 persons including 34 children arrived. The majority of these people were farmers, while others were tradesmen of various kinds.

Gardens commemorate the nation’s Bicentenary in 1988 and the contribution by Barry Antaw towards the establishment of Cootamundra parks and gardens.

Circular brick pond with tall granite stone erected in 1985 for the South-Eastern Historical Association and the Bass Valley Historical Society commemorates Samuel Anderson, his brothers Hugh and Thomas, and his partner Robert Massie who made the first permanent settlement in Eastern Victoria here. The memorial also commemorates George Bass after whom the town is named.

In 1835 a Scottish immigrant from Kirkudbright Scotland named Samuel Anderson sailed up the Bass River and with a partner Robert Massie established the third permanent settlement in Victoria.  Samuel's brothers Hugh and Thomas joined him at Bass where they established a successful farming venture.

Erected by the Australian Racing Drivers Club to commemorate the City of Bathurst on its centenary (1885-1985) and record the appreciation of motor sport enthusiasts for the support given to motor racing at Mount Panorama.

Also known as Governor Macquarie`s Chair, the memorial commemorates the gazetting of Bathurst as a city on 20th March 1885 and was unveiled by the Eighth Earl of Bathurst in 1985.

Wall commemorates early European settlers. The Heritage Wall surrounding the foundation cairn was commenced in 1988 to recognise pioneers who contributed to the development of Bathurst as a major rural centre.

Cairn denotes the site where Governor Macquarie proclaimed the town of Bathurst after which was held the first religious service west of the Blue Mountains.

The idea of a monument to commemorate the founding of Bathurst in 1815 was suggested by A.G. Spencer Oakes in a letter to the Bathurst "Times" on 26 May, 1926. It received popular support and the foundation stone was laid by Dr. H. Norrie, President of the Royal Australian Historical Society on 5 May, 1929. Dr. Norrie also formally dedicated the cairn.

Cairn with plaque donated by the Egan family commemorates Bayles Pioneers. 

The Beechworth Pioneers Monument was erected in 1954 in honour and in memory, of the pioneers who founded Beechworth and the fact that it was once a famous gold mining town.

Gold was first discovered near the present site of the Newtown Bridge, with the assistance of a local shepherd in 1852. By November 1852, some 1500 miners had descended on the area; by January 1853 that number had multiplied to approximately 8000.

During this time the area was known as Mayday Hills (named by Lieutenant-Governor GJ La Trobe in May 1852). Over four million ounces of gold were found between the years 1852 to 1866, which is worth several billion dollars in today's currency. By 1853 a township began to form and the name Beechworth was bestowed by George D. Smythe, the Government Surveyor who planned the first streets and public areas for the town.

Monument ommemorates the first European settlement of Bahtahbah (Belmont) established by Reverend L. Threlkeld of the London Mission Society and was erected during Belmont's 150th anniversary celebrations. 

Rev. Daniel Tyerman and a wealthy layman, George Bennet, were visiting the society's mission fields and Reverend Threlkeld accompanied them to Australia, intending to return to England. In Sydney, the visitors proposed the establishment of a mission to the Aboriginals and Governor Brisbane was agreeable.  In January 1825 a site was fixed at Reid's Mistake (Belmont) on Lake Macquarie, and Threlkeld was appointed missionary.

 

Commemorates first settler of North Gundagai

Cairn commemorates the district pioneers and marks the site of the first post office erected in 1892.

Cairn commemorates pioneer settlers, George McKillop, George Prendergast and James McFarlane.

The memorial was unveiled as part of the Governor, Lord Somers, tour of the Gippsland in 1927 to unveil memorial cairns along the route taken by the explorer Angus McMillan.

Plaque commemorates one hundred and seventy years of settlement of Benambra.

Recognises the role of women in the development of Bendigo from the discovery of gold in Victoria to the present day. The sculpture was unveiled to celebrate the 150 years of gold in Bendigo.

Memorial Wall commemorates the pioneering families of Bendoc. 

Cairn built by members of the Clan Donnachaidh to commemorate the Bi-Centenary.

Commemorates the Bicentenary of the first Europeans to enter Port Phillip in 1802

Park established to commemorate the bi-centenary of European settlement in Australia

Tree commemorates 200 years of European settlement of Australia

Barbeque erected by Moore citizens to commemorate the nation`s bicentenary.

Commemorates the Bicentenary of the European settlement of Australia

The  Herb and Sculpture Garden was opened in 1988 as part of Australia's Bicentennial Celebrations.

A unique memorial depicting the history of the Australian continent, from Aboriginal cultures to 1988 and beyond. Panels depict the history of the Inverell area.

Monument marks the fact that Kilkivan is part of the Bicentennial National Trail from Healesville in Victoria to Cooktown in Queensland. Kilkivan is one of the few towns that the trail passes through.

The Bicentennial National Trail, over 5,000 kilometres from Healesville in Victoria to Cooktown in Queensland, is the longest marked route of its kind in the world; the 107-kilometre section through Kilkivan Shire mainly follows the forest ridges along the coastal ranges to the west of the highly populated plains of the Cooloola region. Here among the hills the trail follows many of the roads and tracks taken by the early pioneers.

The Trail committee proposed that the concept be made a project to celebrate Australia's Bicentenary in 1988. The suggestion was accepted, and funding of $300,000 was available to research, mark a route and print guidebooks. In November 1988, this had been accomplished and the Bicentennial National Trail was opened.

Bicentennial Park Memorial

During the October 1988 bicentenary celebrations the park was opened and a time capsule placed under the memorial.

Plaque commemorates the Australian Bicentenary and pays tribute to the pioneering police stationed along the Overland Telegraph Line. 

From 30th September 1987 to 1st January 1988, members of the South Australian and Northern Territory Police Force undertook a camel expedition from Darwin to Adelaide as a joint contribution to Australia's Bicentenary. 

Cairn commemorates Scottish settlers of the area.

The decision to create a Scottish Cairn in Maclean grew from a Bicentennial gift of a Cairn from Scotland to Australia (1988). Despite intense lobbying from many towns with Scottish links, the Cairn was given permanent home in Mosman Park, Sydney. The Maclean "Scottish Town in Australia" Committee decided to construct its own Cairn under the supervision of Scottish stonemason George Kerridge of Canberra. The Cairn was positioned in Stanford Park. Stones were obtained from parts of Scotland, Scottish families throughout Australia and locally. The Maclean Scottish Cairn is a fitting memorial to the contribution Scottish settlers made to the Clarence and to Australia. Scottish Settlers who came to the Maclean area were mainly Highlanders driven from their land during the Highland Clearances. Responding to offers of immigration to Australia, several shiploads arrived on free or assisted passages.

Plaque and seat commemorate the Bi-Centenary of Australia

Commemorates the bicentennial of European settlement of Australia 

Commmemorates the largest soldier settlement in Australia and the tractor which cleared the land.

Big Lizzie’ was an enormous tractor used to clear vast expanses of land around the river at the Red Cliffs soldier settlement. It was constructed by Frank Bottrill and it was employed by the government to do land-clearing, virtually clearing all of Red Cliffs, and it was capable of clearing up to 50 acres in a day

Erected by Centenary Celebrations Committee as a monument to the proclamation of town of Penguin and also as a tourist attraction. The town was named after the fairy penguin by Ronald C Gunn, a botanist.

The council erected the memorial rose gardens installing six -foot high rock constructed cairn with a plaque identifying the gardens as to the memory of the pioneers.

Bindi Bindi Water Supply and Centenary

Town clock and sculptures commemorate the Birchip centenary, with a model of the stump jump plough invented by James Phelps.

Commemorates Albert, Edward and William Gould who took up a selection in Birchip.

Plaque marking the Eastern end of the Black - Allan Line, the Victorian - New South Wales border surveyed

Memorial Stone explains Black Stump legend and is also a tribute to the pioneers.

It is generally accepted that the "Black Stump" district was named in the 1880s from a water tank in the area of the same name. Another story attributes the ubiquitous black stump to the husband of the unfortunate Barbara Blain, who was buried at Gunbar Cemetery in 1886. Local legend has it that her husband, a bullocky, instructed her to make a fire while he found feed for the livestock. The day was hot, windy and dusty. When he returned he found his wife burned to death. The story goes that when people sympathised with him he said "When I returned to the camp my wife was dead - she looked just like a black stump".

The ANZAC Memorial Garden commemorates the Bicentennial of Australia in 1988.

The plaque is mounted on the Blackwood War Memorial

Avenue of honor with significant indigenous trees in dedication to the pioneering families of Blampied.

Bong Bong Common is the site of the first European settlement in the Southern Highlands. From 1817, explorer and pastoralist Dr Charles Throsby was grazing his cattle on both sides of the great bend in the Wingecarribee River. Under instructions from Governor Lachlan Macquarie, the Old Argyle Road, leading south from the Cumberland Plain, was commenced in 1819, providing access to the newly settled land south of Camden to Bong Bong, Sutton Forest and beyond.

The village developed as the first centre for law and order in the Southern Highlands, with a row of government buildings erected between 1822 and 1832, close to the Old Argyle Road where the road curved westwards to cross the river by the causeway which is still so important a feature of the site. 

A hut for the first gaoler, Bryan Bagnall, on conditional pardon from his life sentence, was erected beside a simple bark-roofed lock-up in 1822, and soldiers were initially housed in huts until barracks were erected by 1829.

Bong Bong was not a residential settlement but a centre for the administration of law and order, with some basic services for the scattered rural population.

Memorial is a granite headstone which commemorates the first European settlers who are buried in the old cemetery.

The Border Cairn (Todd`s Obelisk) marks the border between South Australia and New South Wales associated with Sir Charles Todd.

Todd became Superintendent of Telegraphs and Government Astronomer and Meteorologist in South Australia in 1855 at the age of 30. By 1858 he had completed telegraph links to Victoria and New South Wales and, by 1872, the overland telegraph to Darwin.

As Superintendent of Telegraphs, he made it a duty of all his telegraph operators to make and transmit meteorological observations and he had soon established extensive observing networks throughout South Australia and the Northern Territory, and into Western Australia. Elected a Fellow, Royal Society of London in 1869, he played a leading role in the scientific life of South Australia, even after his formal retirement, until his death in 1909

The 180 kilometre stretch of border from the source of the Murray River to Cape Howe was surveyed from 1870 to 187.   But, because of a long-forgotten disagreement between the Victoria and New South Wales Attorneys-General over its precise location, the border between the two colonies was never formally proclaimed.

The oversight was discovered by the New South Wales government and the border was officially proclaimed in February 2006. The border is known as the Black-Allan Line after the two surveyors who first marked the boundary - a Victorian surveyor appointed by New South Wales, Alexander Black, and Victorian Alexander Allan.

The pair worked from the site of a cairn at Delegate River in 1870, enduring some of Australia`s most rugged terrain and extremes of heat and cold to complete the survey in 1871. They marked the border with 33 stone cairns, nine blazed trees and numerous rock trenches.

Park is a heritage listed landmark of NSW, where memorials of early pioneers and prominent citizens of the colony of New South Wales still stand today. Pioneer Memorial Park honours and pays tribute to the memory of many who contributed to the foundation and development of the Sydney colony.

Created in 1976 through the dedicated effort of Fred W. Read and fellow Botany Cemetery Trustees, Pioneer Memorial Park has 746 surviving memorials of the many that were transported from the early burial grounds of Sydney in 1901.

 

Plaque on Boulia War Memorial commemorates the centenary of the town.

Plaque commemorates the arrival of Pitcairn Islanders on Norfolk Island in 1856. The descendants of the Bounty mutineers sailed from Pitcairn Island to settle on Norfolk Island. 194 people (40 men and 47 women, 54 boys and 53 girls) made this 3700 mile, five week journey to Norfolk Island; arriving on 8 June 1856.

Commemorative wall marking the history of Bowral and recognising the contribution of  outstanding local residents over the last 100 years.  The wall features around 130 people who have made a lasting impact on the community of Bowral. Bronze plaques tell the tales of ordinary folk, heroes and sporting legends. 

The wall also contains relief sculptures of cricketer Sir Donald Bradman and marathon runner Heather Turland two of Bowral's most well jnown sporting identities.  The bronze relief sculptures were created by William Eicholtz, who also sculptured the Bowral Coat of Arms which features on the wall. A relief sculpture of Ted Springett is also conatined within the wall. 

The wall was a gift from Ted Springett and his brother Bob Springett to the Wingecarribee Shire. The Springett family have been contributors to the Bowral district for over a century. Not only did Ted contributed to the wall financially, leading up to the unveiling he spent 12 months investigating the history of the area and researching the 130 people represented on the wall so far.

Commemorates Box Hill pioneers using stone from the remains of the chimney of the home of pioneer settler Arundel Wright

The monument near the old Bridgefield marks the beginning of the hospitality industry, the importance of the timber industry and the pioneering efforts of the early settlers.

Commemorates the first landing in Bridgetown.

The first explorer, an Augusta settler, Thomas Turner, traced the Blackwood River upstream to its junction with the Arthur River in 1834. Although a report was then sent to Perth, it was twenty years before an official expedition was undertaken. Augustus C. Gregory, Assistant Surveyor, led a party from the upper Blackwood to the coast in 1845,and later conducted a survey of the district in 1852.

Cairns marks the opening of the Bright - Towanga Road linking the Kiewa and Ovens Valleys enabling the Tawonga farmers to get their produce to Bright

Cairn commemorates the centenary of the foundation of Bright.

Explored, like so much of Victoria, by Hume and Hovell in 1824, the first pastoral runs in the Bright area were taken up in the late 1830s - one of them by Hume`s brother-in-law, Dr Mackay, whose difficulties with the local Aborigines caused him to move to another property.

In 1845, Thomas Buckland established the area`s first cattle run near the river which was later to bear his name. The real development of the district began in 1853, when W.H. Pardoe discovered gold along the Buckland River. In 1861, the town became the administrative centre for the swelling population of the Buckland Gold District. Shortly afterwards, its name was officially changed to honour John Bright, a British liberal politician and advocate of free trade.

Commemorates the proclamation of the area as a British possession.

Geological Monument

Bruk Bruk Soldier Settlement Estate cairn commemorate returned Second World War servicemen who settled the Bruk Bruk Estate in 1959.

Commemorates the discoverers of Buchan, Edward William Bayliss and settler John Rhodes Wilkinson.

East Gippsland explorer, Edward Baylis, began the Buchan station in the late 1830s. The area was first settled around 1840 but no detailed survey or exploration was carried out until 1899 or 1900.

Memorial to the Riot in the Buckland Valley when thousands of Chinese miners were attacked and driven from the goldfields.

This significant race riot has been compared to the Eureka Stockade uprising in size and intensity. Over 750 miner’s tents were destroyed, stores belonging to the Chinese were burnt down and looted and the newly erected Chinese Temple “Joss House” was reduced to ashes. Many details of this event are still debated as court records have mysteriously disappeared from the Beechworth Court House.

The Bunbury Railway Station Plaque features an etching of the Bunbury Railway Station attached to a granite rock marking the location of the city's first railway station. The plaque was unveiled to honour the courage, endurance and enterprise of West Australia's early settlers. 

Obelisk and plaque commemorate  the site where architect and surveyor Henry Hellyer camped in May 1827 on his visit to Emu Bay, prior to the establishment five months later on October 9, 1827 of a township by the Van Diemen`s Land Company

Commemorates the pioneer Orangemen of the Burwood District.

The first Orange Lodges in Victoria were formed in 1843 and 1847, the direct result of civil unrest by sections of the local Roman Catholic community. The civil unrest followed the democratic election of a Protestant to represent the Port Phillip District in the first New South Wales Parliament. Open voting at election then existed, so that each party knew how the other voted. The conduct of many Roman Catholics at this election so aroused the Protestants that they resolved to band themselves together for mutual protection "and to resist in the future the lawless conduct of the Popish mob."



In June 1867, the two branches of Orangeism operating in Victoria merged to form the Loyal Orange Institution of Victoria, which continues to function successfully, currently with some 30 subordinate lodges.

 

Obelisk commemorating the site of Burwood Villa.

The first house, Burwood Villa was built in the area in 1814, the same year that a stagecoach began running between Sydney and Parramatta. Burwood became a staging post along the road and the beginnings of a settlement started to develop.

Memorial erected on 150th Anniversary of Western Australia to commemorate settler John Butler and also the settlement of military pensioners in 1850.

The mural is a memorial to the local Europen pioneers .

The mural, on a stone wall, is made of tiles, and is approximately eleven metres long and 3.5 metres high. It is divided into five panels. The first on the left, surmounted by a rotary wheel, depicts Aboriginal hunting and wheat and mining industries. The second panel is a ram`s head and shepherd`s crook with the date 1797. The centre panel consists of sheep, wool shed, bales of wool, and sailing ship surmounted by the Camden coat of arms and the date 1795. The fourth panel is a bunch of grapes, shovel and brush hook and the date 1805, when the local wine industry began. The fifth panel depicts grape growing, orcharding, sheep, agriculture, milk industry and wine industry, surmounted by Macarthur`s coat of arms.

Marks the first official survey of the border between New South Wales and Queensland.

Cameron`s 1 Ton Survey Post marks the first official survey of the border between what were then the separate colonies of New South Wales and Queensland when an accurate definition of the border was important for legal and economic reasons. It illustrates a remarkable feat of surveying in the nineteenth century and is a reminder of the extraordinarily difficult conditions under which many early surveyors worked. John Brewer Cameron was a First Class surveyor in the Trigonometrical branch of the New South Wales Lands Department and a member of the Royal Geographical Society of New South Wales. When the survey was complete Cameron commemorated the event by placing a wooden post weighing one ton and carved with his name on the river bank. It became known as Cameron`s 1 Ton Survey Post. Cameron`s 1 Ton Survey post was erected in about 1882 on the bank of the Barwon River and marks the official survey of the border between Queensland and New South Wales.

Stone commemorates the proclamation of Campbelltown as a city in 1968.

Campbelltown was founded in 1820, named after Elizabeth Macquarie née Campbell, wife of the then Governor of New South Wales Lachlan Macquarie. Campbelltown Council was originally incorporated in 1882 and Campbelltown was proclaimed a city in 1968.

Watering trough and hitching post erected by James Bocking, Mayor to commemorate the proclamation of the Municipality of Campbelltown in 1882.

The area of Campbelltown was first visited by Governor Hunter in 1795, and was explored by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. On 1 December 1820, Governor Macquarie named the area Campbell Town in honour of his wife’s maiden name, with the area later being known simply as Campbelltown.

In 1882, the area was officially proclaimed as the Municipal District of Campbelltown by the Governor of NSW. Nine Aldermen were elected, with John Ahearn elected the first Mayor of Campbelltown.

The Municipal District of Ingleburn was proclaimed in 1896.

In 1948 Campbelltown and Ingleburn were joined into one common council (including part of the Nepean Shire) and became known as the Amalgamated Municipality of Campbelltown.

 

Commemorates the site of the township of Canonba.

The area was visited by Major Mitchell in 1834 and it became a staging area for Cobb and Co coaches passing to Bourke and beyond. With the coming of the railway to Nyngan in 1883, Canonba ceased to exist.

Grey granite stone mounted on a concrete base with black granite plaque depicting miner's pick and shovel.  A statue of a Chinese miner by Mrs Dorothea Saarghy is nearby.

Canton Lead is unique in Australian cultural heritage and it is site upon which the city of Ararat was founded.  Ararat is the only city in Australia to be founded by Chinese immigrants.

For the first five weeks it was referred to as Canton Lead, then as Mount Ararat, and then shortened to Ararat. On a Sunday morning in May, 1857, 700 Chinese miners from Southern China, travelling overland from the Port of Robe, South Australia, to the Clunes Goldfields in the Colony of Victoria, rested at a place at the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, some 400 kilometres due east of Robe.

Replenishing their water supplies at a spring, they discovered by chance the Canton Lead, the world`s richest shallow alluvial goldfield that stretched five kilometres at length. This find marked the beginning of the Ararat Goldfield, which grew to a population of more than 30,000 in a mere few weeks. In the first three months of mining, the Canton Lead yielded more than three tonnes of gold.

Commemorates Captain Arthur Phillip`s and his party`s visit to Pearl Beach.

In early March 1788, Governor Arthur Phillip led a small party of officers and marines on an exploratory voyage along the coast to the north of Sydney Harbour. Only five weeks after the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove, it became clear that reliable supplies of water and food must be found if the settlement was to survive. During the eight-day voyage, Phillip and his party made a brief exploration of both sides of Broken Bay. This included a tributary initially known as the `north arm`. Later this area was to be called the `north-east arm`, and eventually `Brisbane Water`

Memorial erected in 1928 by the Manly Warringah and Pittwater Historical Society commemorates the landing at Manly of Captain Arthur Philip, Royal Navy, the first governor of New South Wales on the 21st January 1788.

Bust of Captain D. M. Hahn commemorates the naming of Hahndorf.

Hahndorf's history is connected to the arrival at Port Adelaide, on 28 December, 1838 of the 344 ton ship, Zebra, under the control of Captain Dirk Hahn. He was impressed by his passengers to such a point that upon their arrival in South Australia he was determined to help them. Although a Dane it is he who is honoured with his name being the basis of the town's name.

The ship was carrying 187 German immigrants. For a time the immigrants lived in tents at Port Adelaide then Hahn came to an agreement to rent 150 acres of land (this was the present site of Hahndorf) which would be divided up so there was 38 acres for living quarters and the rest for farming. Later the grant was expanded to 240 acres.

Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the settlement of St Leonards by Captain George Ward Cole 

Reserve honours the memory of Captain Henry Waterhouse, Naval Officer, (1770-1812) who made a significant contribution to the development of the colony of New South Wales between the years 1788 to 1800.

Monument commemorates Soldier Settlers of the district who arrived in the district after World War Two.

Soldier settlement refers to the occupation and settlement of land throughout parts of Australia by returning discharged soldiers under schemes administered by the State Governments after World Wars I and II.

Plaque commemorating Soldier settlers on the three post World War Two estates at Carapook, Bella Vista, Tulse Hill & McNicol`s.

Commemorates Carlo Catani, an engineer who drained the swamp, and those who settled in the landscape

Memorial to the original selection for the site of Castlereagh by Governor Macquarie.

This suburb is one of the most historic sites in Australia's history, being one of Governor Lachlan Macquarie's five towns founded in 1810.

Commemorates Cathcart pioneers

Two sets of stained glass windows commemorate the Catholic Pioneers of Moruya.

Mural depicts the history of Eden.

Memorial to local pioneers of the Tomaga River area.The cemetery was bulldozed by the developers of the housing estate known as Sunpatch , in the early 1960s.

The first recorded burial in the cemetery took place on 20 June 1878 when John Phillip Jennings aged 9 years was buried by Charles, Walter and William Jennings. The last burial was that of Richard Sebbens aged 51, in April 1914

Commeorates the centenary of the Toora township and the pioneer settlers

Commemorates the centenary of foundation of Berrigan

Commemorates the centenary of Boolarra and district

Clock tower commemorates the centenary of the Dookie township

Monument commemorates the centenary of European settlement in Merino and the people who planted trees to commemorate the coronation of King George VI

Flagpole and Cairn erected in 2001 as a tribute to the early settlers of Swan Creek.

The project commemorates the Centenary of Federation and was funded by a $25,000 grant from the WA 2001 Community Centenary Project.

The Southern Region Italo-Australian Community Foundation Inc used the grant to develop a memorial park featuring a life-size bronze sculpture of an Italian immigrant couple (circa 1940s) and three children. The sculpture is surrounded by landscaped gardens, a water feature and seating and provides an attractive area for relaxation and reflection near Sanctuary Lake in Armadale.

The memorial park and bronze statue recognises the achievements and contributions of the Italian settlers to this region.  Italians from all walks of life made their way to Australia after the Second World War and since that time have made a significant contribution to the heart and soul of Australia.

Plaques surrounding the memorial commemorate immigrant families. 

Commemorates the centenary of the settlement of Finley

A large mosiac commemorates the centenary of the Fish Creek township

Commemorates the incorporation of the inhabitants of the Town of Melbourne

Fountain erected by the notable confectioner and philanthropist Sir Macpherson Robertson commemorates the centenary of Melbourne

Time capsule commemorates the centenary of the settlement of Mount Gambier

Conservatory commemorates the centenary of St. Kilda as a city.

Commemorates the centenary of the surveying of Yararwonga undertaken in 1868

Plaque commemorates the centenary of the proclamation of Geelong as a city

Plaque commemorates centenary of the township of North Sydney. 

The plan of the township was approved by Governor Gipps and gazetted as St. Leonards on the 10th October 1938. The name was changed to North Sydney on the 9th September 1893.

Centenary Pioneer Memorial

Sundial commemorates the 75th anniversary and redevelopment of Centenary Place.

Centenary Place was designed and constructed for the purpose of commemorating the centenary of European settlement in Queensland (1824-1924). It is also important as the site of a public forum or speaker's corner during the 1960s and 1970s when political activism was increasing and public speaking spaces were use to promote public awareness of both national and local issues.

 The Central Australian Pioneers Memorial was erected to commemorate the work of the early pioneers of Central Australia. The memorial was restored in 1994 and is now contained in a metal cage. The plaques are very difficult to read and photograph. There is some graffiti on the memorial.

Commemorates the centenary of the naming of Mount Muirhead by Charles Bonnery

Cairn with direction finder commemorates the pioneer Chapman family.

Commemorates the meeting place which determined the site of the city.

Charles Archer explored the Fitzroy and Dawson River areas looking for suitable grazing lands in 1853-4. He tendered for the Farris Run in Gracemere and travelled overland with livestock to arrive in 1855. His brother Colin was to bring much needed supplies by sea and the two met when the "Ellida" sailed up the coast from Maryborough and along the Fitzroy River. This became the site of Rockhampton. Sleipner, Archer`s horse, was named after Odin`s fabled horse in Scandinavian mythology.

Monument to pioneers of Charleyong.

Charleyong, originally known as Taylor`s village, was a flourishing alluvial mining and agricultural settlement from about 1854 until the early years of the twentieth century. William Taylor`s store at the heart of the settlement, sold general provisions and diggers equipment. There was a butcher next door. In March 1871 the storekeeper also became the Postmaster. The store and Post Office survived until the late 1890`s when, the gold being worked out, miners and their families were leaving the district. The site of Charleyong village and cemetery is situated within lands now owned by the Sydney Catchment Authority. There are 51 burials dated between 1864 and 1904 recorded at Charleyong.

Public Artwork honours the early pioneering families of the Chermside area. Historic photos of the early pioneering families of Chermside have been embedded in a timber and iron public artwork on the archway entrance to Burnie Brae Community Garden in Chermside.

It honours the Hamilton, Argo, Fisher, Staib and Chesney families and other original settlers. The Hamiltons, one of the first families to settle in Chermside, started a blacksmith and coach-building business on their Gympie Road property, and lived on this site which has adopted the name of their homestead, Burnie Brae.  The Argos were bicycle manufacturers and retailers and the Fishers were the local grocery suppliers and the Chesneys of Chesney Caravans fame were also Chermside locals.

 

Monument in the shape of a well commemorates the town's beginnings.

The Chidlow townsite was originally named Chidlow's Well after a small waterhole near the old Northam road. The watering place had been known to travellers for many years and was named after a pioneer family of Northam. Settlement began in 1883 when it became known that Chidlow's Well was to be the terminus of the second section of the Eastern Railway. The railway station and townsite were changed from Chidlow's well to Chidlow in 1920.

Memorial to British and Maltese children who were brought to Australia under the Child Migrant Scheme

Dedicated to British and Maltese boys and girls.

Between 1947 and 1953 over 3200 children migrated to Australia under approved schemes. About 100 of them were Maltese while the remainder came from the United Kingdom. Other European countries were asked if they would like to participate in the child migration scheme but declined. Over 30 homes were approved by the Commonwealth for the housing of child migrants. Most of these were run by voluntary and religious organisations. It was not government policy to provide homes specifically for migrant children; however, the government did contribute towards the capital expenditure incurred by these organisations in setting up suitable homes. Both the Commonwealth and State governments contributed towards running costs. The governments of the United Kingdom and Malta also paid maintenance for their children who had emigrated to approved institutions in Australia.

Commemorates the Child Migration Schemes that occurred between 1949 and 1976. During this time the British and Australian governments sponsored the children but they were nominated and 'cared' for by a voluntary organisation. In Tasmania, the organisations approved to run institutions for child migrants were the Fairbridge Society, Clarendon Children's Home, and the Salesians of Don Bosco. The Big Brother Movement also brought out some boys aged 15 and 16 and placed them on rural properties. Some children went to private individuals.

The iInquiry into Child Migration stated that 300 'child migrants' were sent to Tasmania between 1949 and 1976, which included 161 children aged 15 to17 years sent under the auspices of the Big Brother Movement and 54 children sent under the Fairbridge scheme whereby children migrated in advance of, or accompanied by, one or both parents.

Between 73 and 77 child migrants came from the United Kingdom to Tasmania and were placed in children's institutions. Between 33 and 37 of these child migrants were sent to Boys' Town in Glenorchy .  Hagley Farm School near Launceston received 9 child migrants under the Fairbridge scheme between 1952 and 1955, and 'Tresca', located in Exeter and run by the Fairbridge Society, received 13 children from 1958. Another 18 child migrants were placed at the Clarendon Children's Home.

St Joseph's Orphanage in Hobart applied for child migrants but failed to gain approval, and St Joseph's Waterton Hall gained approval but never received any migrants.

Some children went to private individuals. However, the authorities did not like this arrangement because, if the relationship between child and adopted parents broke down, the state was forced to take the child into 'care'. The government preferred a voluntary organisation to nominate the child and then place them with individuals after they had arrived. Applicants considered to be too old or with an inadequate income were turned down. However, in 1960, 47 out of 68 migrant children supervised by the Child Welfare Division had arrived through private nomination suggesting that this practice had become more common by then.

Children emigrated under the guardianship of the Federal Minister for Immigration until 1947 and the relevant State Department after that. Prior to the enactment of Commonwealth legislation in 1946, State Child Welfare legislation and the general law covered custody and guardianship arrangements. Children remained under guardianship until they reached the age of 21.

The Senate Inquiry into Child Migration handed down its report, 'Lost Innocents: righting the record' in August 2001. On 16 November 2009, the Australian Parliament issued an apology to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants.

Memorial sculpture by Stanley Hammond in memory of pioneer children.

Commemorates the pioneers who settled the district between 1878 and 1978.

Plaque commemorates the centenary of Chillagoe Station.

Chillagoe was named by William Atherton in 1888.

The route of the Old Adelaide Road through Roses Gap in the Grampians was used by travelers from South Australia to Victoria during the 19th century.

The route was also used by Chinese gold seekers in the 1850s, who were restricted in landing directly at Melbourne. It is not known whether the ‘Chinaman’s Track’ marked on Grampians maps is the same route. A monument at Troopers Creek marks the spot where mounted police checked the papers of interstate travelers.

Memorial to Chinese immigrants on an old temple site in Croydon.  Croydon had one of the largest Chinese populations in regional Australia.

The temple site contains large sculptures which depict administration, culture and industry. The Queensland gulf area was heavily settled by Chinese migrants in the late 1800s, with Croydon at one stage boasting the largest rural Chinese population in the nation. Back then the town, about 150km east of Normanton, was the golden Mecca of the north. Gold was discovered on a pastoral lease in 1883 and the Croydon Goldfields were proclaimed in 1886. Two years later the first hotel was built and within two years there were 15 pubs in the town`s bustling main street. The population was more than 5000, including about 500 Chinese.

The small Chinese Garden with a memorial plaque acknowledges the many Chinese who died on the goldfields during the 1800’s and who were buried in unmarked graves.

From the 1850’s to the 1880’s thousands of people came to what was then called the Peel River Diggings which incorporated Nundle, Happy Valley, Hanging Rock, and Bowling Alley Point. Among the rush of people were numerous Chinese; most looking for gold, plus a few came to set up stores and gardens to supply the diggers.

Illness or accidents took the lives of many searching the hills, and the Bowling Alley Point and Nundle Cemeteries became their final resting-places while the majority left when gold petered out or new fields beckoned. Some stayed on and became a permanent part of Nundle and district history.

Bronze Plaque commemorates the Chinese gold prospectors who in June 1857 discovered the Canton Lead alluvial gold field which led to the settlement of Ararat.

Monument commemorates the 16,500 Chinese who landed here and then walked approximately 320 kilometres to Ballarat and Bendigo.

To prevent Chinese going to the goldfields, the Victorian government placed a ten pound landing fee on all Chinese coming into the colony in 1855.  As a result ships went instead to the port of Robe, the first being Captain Miller`s "Land of Cakes" which arrived on January 17, 1857.  Local boat-owners sold their services to ferry the Chinese ashore while others hired themselves out as escorts to the Victorian goldfields. Campsites were established and between 1857 and 1863, 16,262 Chinese landed at Robe, 35 ships coming directly from China.

A government landing fee of one pound was charged as well as another local landing fee of up to 50 pence.  Cargoes of opium and tea were exchanged for wood which was shipped to Melbourne. Residents also engaged in salvage operations when three of the ships carrying Chinese passengers were wrecked. The Chinese ships brought great prosperity to Robe, and most of the historic buildings were erected in this period.

The monument consists of a ten foot high stone with pictures of a ship, spade, pick, goldpan, and of Chinese carrying their belongings on poles.

Commemorates the pioneers of Melbourne`s Chinese community who lived in this area

Memorial commemorates approximately 4000 Chinese miners who mined and settled in the Creswick district.

The core, and most long lived, Creswick Chinese community was located at Black Lead. The records of the District Mining Surveyor record the Chinese population of Black Lead at a remarkably stable at around 400 individuals throughout the 1860’s and 1870’s. During the same period the total Chinese population of the surrounding district fell from a high just short of 2000 in the early 1860’s to less than 1000 in the mid 1870’s. All of these Chinese were alluvial miners. When compared to the corresponding figures for European alluvial miners, it can be seen that for substantial periods of the 1860’s, Creswick’s alluvial mining workforce was a fifty-fifty split between Europeans and Chinese.

Monument erected by the Chung Wah Association dedicated to Chinese pioneers.

The Chinese were introduced into the colony as labourers and did not receive very formal funerals as they were generally treated as outcasts in both life and death. Many Christians refused to allow 'heathen' Chinese to be buried in consecrated land, and others stipulated that they be buried in fenced off 'Chinese' or 'alien' areas.

A letter written by Acting Commissioner of Crown lands, J.W. Brooking to the Colonial Secretary in September 1888 asked that the northern half of Perth Town Lot E69 be gazetted as a Chinese Cemetery. Until then it had been designated as a general cemetery reserve.

Unlike the other cemeteries, the Chinese one was not vested in the Chinese community as there were very few Chinese living in Perth at the time. In fact, it was not until the 1914 that a Chinese association was formed and began to lobby the Government.

A plaque was also placed at the site of the original Chinese cemetery which was reclaimed for public use and made available to the Education Department in the 1950s.

Plaque commemorates the Chinese settlers who came to Linton in 1856 to work on the goldfields, and the many who stayed in the Linto area after the gold mining ended

Commemorates Chinese settlers

The records of the District Mining Surveyor record the Chinese population of Black Lead at a remarkably stable at around 400 individuals throughout the 1860’s and 1870’s. During the same period the total Chinese population of the surrounding district fell from a high just short of 2000 in the early 1860’s to less than 1000 in the mid 1870’s. All of these Chinese were alluvial miners. When compared to the corresponding figures for European alluvial miners, it can be seen that for substantial periods of the 1860’s, Creswick’s alluvial mining workforce was a fifty-fifty split between Europeans and Chinese.

Commemorates the Soldier Settlement area of "Chocolyn Estate" that was established in 1920.

The Chocolyn Estate was originally subdivided and offered at public auction in December 1909.

Many of the blocks remained vacant until 1920 when the Closer Settlement Board purchased the land. It was then subdivided into 26 blocks and offered to ex-servicemen. There were 76 applications from across Victoria and as ex-servicemen began to settle in the area, the community of Chocolyn grew.

In 1928 the school was enlarged and in 1931 a community church hall was built. Sports teams, dances, scouts, guides, church activities and school functions were the foundation of a strong community.

The school was known as Buddai and opened in 1878.

Commemorates the 25th anniversary of the City of Nunawading

Sculpture Space-Time 11 presented to sister Newcastle in 1981 in commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of Ube City.

Ube is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan on the Seto Inland Sea. The city was founded on November 1, 1921. Ube has been a sister city with Newcastle since 1980. 

Tree commemorates the proclamation of the city of Croydon in 1971.

In 1929 the pupils of Clackline school and the headteacher E.W.Membery, erected this monument to commemorate 100 years of European settlement in Western Australia.

On 1 June 1829 Lieutenant -Governor Stirling and his party arrived at Garden Island and erected the necessary buildings to protect the stores. On 18 June, Stirling and others landed on the mainland at Rous Head and formally published, both on the mainland and at Garden Island, this Proclamation constituting His Majesty's Settlement in Western Australia.

Memorial to the failed settlement of Clarence.

495 members of Thomas Peel’s failed venture, arrived aboard three ships, Gilmore, Hooghly and Rockingham between December 1829 and May 1830. They set up makeshift camps in primitive conditions at Clarence. In the first year some 40 settlers died of scurvy, dysentery, or other ailments and 6 from childbirth. The majority of the deceased were buried in the vicinity and a number later re-interred in the old Alma Street Cemetery, Fremantle.

Erected in 1974 in memory of the pioneers (the Flight and Ellis families ) who established Cochran Creek. The first building erected in 1904 was used as a public hall, schoolhouse and church. 

Obelisk commemorates the foundation and naming of Canberra.

The Commencement Column monument consists of the three foundation stones for the intended column which were laid down at a ceremony on 12 March 1913 to designate the official foundation of the national capital and its naming as Canberra.

Inaugurating the federal capital at Canberra, the laying of the foundation stones for the column marked the realisation of Section 125 of the Australian Constitution. This required the federal seat of government to be situated within the state of NSW, but located not less than 100 miles from Sydney. The original location of the monument was excavated when the new Parliament House was constructed on the Hill. After the opening of the new Parliament House, the Commencement stones were relocated to their current position, in the Federal Mall on Capital Hill.

Plaque unveiled in 1984 on the centenary of the first land auction in Coolangatta. The plaque details the history of the naming of Coolangatta and details of the wreck of the Coolangatta in 1846. The plaque is attached to a piece of the Coolangatta wreck.

Marks the occasion of the town`s centenary.

The wall was built in 1999 to mark the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of Cooma as a village. It is an ongoing project of Cooma Main Streets Heritage Committee. The purpose of the wall is to allow individuals and organisations to proudly register the time they have spent in Cooma or on the Monaro.

Signpost commemorates the Sesqui-Centenary of Coonamble.

In 1840 James Walker established the first run in the area; that being the 'Koonamble' station, settled by his agent. It soon became a watering place and campsite for passing stockmen.

Land on either side of the river was reserved for a townsite in 1855. In 1859 it was surveyed and the first post office established. The township was gazetted in 1861 with the first courthouse and lock-up built in 1862.

Erected in memory of Cooyars blacksmiths Joe Fenton and Maurice Kitson.

Memorial cairn to the settlement, founded in 1826 by Captain Samuel Wright, Lieutenant Burchill, explorer William Hovell and twenty-one convicts.

The settlement was founded on the fear that the French might invade Australia, but it was abandoned fifteen months later.

Records all pioneers of Corrigin`s past.

The design for the Sundial was initiated by an architectural competition for the Town of Cottesloe, which sought an appropriate monument to commemorate the Australian Bicentenary. The project was built over a seven year period with extremely limited funds, and relied upon the generousity and voluntary contributions of many.

Rose garden commemorates the diamond jubilee of the Country Women`s Association

Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Cowra Migrant Camp which commenced in 1949.  After World War II, the former military camp became home to between 17-19,000 new Australians in the form of the Cowra Migrant Camp.

The clock tower in Cronulla Plaza was a Bicentennial gift to the people of the Sutherland Shire from Caltex Refinery Co. Pty Ltd. The tower houses the oldest public clock in Australia, built by John Jullion of England in 1770 - the year Captain James Cook landed at Kurnell. The clock's original home was Stanwell Place, near Heathrow in England. It is a turret clock with large time and starter weight mechanisms. The weights require re-winding weekly, which is achieved automatically by electric power.

The clock was fully restored and installed in the tower by Douglas Minty, who has been contracted to maintain it by Sutherland Shire Council. The Lions Club of Australia contributes to the cost of the maintenance.

National Parks and Wildlife Services said no to Caltex’s offer to erect the clock at Captain Cook’s Landing Place but the council agreed to to make the Clock Tower the main feature at the northern end of the Cronulla Bicentennial Plaza which was then under construction. After restoration by horologist Doug Minty, the clock was offiicially handed over to the people of Sutherland Shire on November 19, 1988.

Band Rotunda which is dedicated to the pioneers of the Murchison region. The rotunda is built on the site of the "Old Well".

Cue was, and remains, a gold town. In the early days the miners had to walk a long way to obtain water. To relieve the water famine the diggers decided they would either work a shift or pay for a shift to sink a well. The Warden who was still residing in Nannine contributed 20 pounds on behalf of the government. Dave and Bill Simpson got the contract and the well yielded a fair supply of water. The dump of earth left by the sinking of the well was used as a platform by local orators. In 1904, Cue Council decided to commemorate the site of the `Old Well` by the erection of a octagonal shaped rotunda.

Memorial tree commemorates local World War Two veteran settlers in the Currandooley and Willeroo areas. 

Memorial trees had previousy been planted by the children of the original settlers near this memorial plaque.

Cut Hill Stone Wall and Memorial Plaque

 The Dadswells Bridge Soldier Settlement Memorial is dedicated to families who settled on 3608 acres of Stapledon's Estate, Dadswells Bridge in October 1959.

Gothic arch window commemorates the pioneers of the district.

Commemorates the earliest settlers in the Dandenong district

Commemorates the Immigrants from Denmark who settled in Poowong East , then called "Triholm" in 1877

Monument commemorates the soldier settlements that were undertaken in the Darlington area after World War Two.

Fountain commemorates the pioneer residents of Darlington

Brick memorial contains a mural of two miners working on a puddling machine flanked by a goat (insisted on by the remaining pioneers to represent the value of their milk and meet) and a sheep.

During 1856, a small rush took place at "Forty Foot Hill", near where Commercial Street was later established. While work was going on here a rich discovery was made at Deep Lead, a short distance from where the North and South Wales mining Company Crushing Plant was later established. In 1857 and 1858, it was one of the busiest places in the country districts of the Colony.

As the rush of diggers increased at Deep Lead, Cobb & Co`s coaches began to run daily, bring gold buyers by the numbers, to purchase the plentiful amounts of gold offering for sale.

Park bench dedicated by the CWA to pioneering women.

 Window with rosette motif commemorates the Presbyterian Pioneer women of Deniliquin.

Commemorates the proclamation of the township of Deniliquin.

On Saturday 9 June 2007, a team from Australia INSIGHT erected a plaque as a memorial to all desert travellers who can no longer feel the sand between their toes, but whose spirit lives on

Dethridge Wheel Memorial to Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA) pioneers.

The Dethridge meter is a simple and robust device to measure water volumes passing onto land for irrigation. It turns around when the channel water flows underneath it. Volumes passed are recorded in megalitres (ML) on an inbuilt revolution counter and customers are charged accordingly. By timing the speed of wheel rotation, flow rates in ML/day can be easily calculated. The ability to measure the volume of water going onto a farm is fundamental to the system of water rights and payment-by-measure which developed in Victoria under the Water Act of 1905. The meter wheel was designed by John Stewart Dethridge, a Commissioner of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission for fifteen years. Apart from altering the materials used in fabrication, the fundamental design remained unchanged for over 70 years.

Cairn commemorates centenary celebrations and acknowledges pioneers.   The cairn was built by eight municipalities of the Northwest Coast

Time capsule and plaque commemorate the diamond jubilee in 1987 of the city of Box Hill.

Commemorates the discovery of Port Dalrymple by the explorers George Bass and Matthew Flinders. In 1798, Bass and Flinders set off in the Norfolk to sail around Van Diemen`s Land.

The Norfolk was the first boat to be built in the colony and was built by the prisoners on Norfolk Island. Bass and Flinders discovered and explored the Tamar River. They then spent another three weeks mapping the north coast of Tasmania before they sailed down the west coast.

They sailed down the Derwent River where Hobart now stands and then set sail for Sydney. They had proved that Van Diemen`s Land was an island by sailing right round it. Flinders named the strait, Bass Strait, after George Bass.

The public memorial  includes a sculpture commemorating wives and children of the refugees who worked on the Snowy Mountains Scheme. It also contains information boards and other memorials to the history of displaced persons who stayed in the area during these years.

The Uranquinty Migrant Centre was established as a result of the Displaced Persons Immigration Scheme that had been embarked upon by Prime Minister Chifley's government at the end of the Second World War as was a part of the Populate or Perish policy of the time. Under Arthur Calwell, Australia's first Minister for Immigration, displaced persons still in camps within Germany, Austria and France were chosen to fill the need for a constant supply of labour to the country.

Reception and training centres were established in now disused army and airforce camps in rural and remote areas such as Uranquinty from 1948, particularly because by then married displaced persons with their families were being allowed entry into Australia. Places like Uranquinty had the space to provide accommodation for the wives and children. Many of these displaced persons worked on the relatively nearby Snowy Mountains Scheme.

 

The Dog on the Tucker Box has been described as ` Australia`s best-known pioneer memorial`.

Gundagai was established in December 1842 with the sale of town allotments. Many years later, it is claimed, Jack Moses, wine salesman, poet and traveller `immortalised` Gundagai with his poem `Nine Miles from Gundagai`. He later wrote a poem inspired by an exhibit at the Gundagai Pastoral Show concerning the activities of `The Dog on the Tuckerbox` nine miles from Gundagai. Another poem of doubtful origin ` Billy the Bullocky` places the dog five miles from Gundagai as does the song by Alf and Jack O`Hagan written in 1938 and concerning Mabel who ' waits underneath the bright blue sky.'  During the Great Depression the Gundagai newsagent, O.A. Collins, suggested a memorial to the pioneers of the district. The Gundagai Hospital Board undertook to raise the necessary funds, estimated at 65 pounds.

Plaque commemorates the site of the Dorakin Methodist Church and commemorates the pioneering families.

James Hosken and his three sons developed their land into a wheat and wool farm called “Springfield”. James had deep religious beliefs, and was a lay preacher, and donated land on the corner of the property for a Methodist church, where many of the Dorakin pioneers worshipped, and James often preached.

Erected to commemorate the 5595 British boys brought to Australia under a farm apprenticeship programme known as "The Dreadnought Scheme" and their contribution to Australia`s development.

In 1903, the new Commonwealth of Australia agreed to pay £200,000 per year towards the expenses of the Imperial Squadron in the Pacific, but had no special naval vessels of its own. When in 1909 Germany’s aggressive naval building program threatened Britain’s naval supremacy, the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Sir Allen Taylor, convened a meeting in the Sydney Town Hall to establish a fund to purchase a Dreadnought (battleship) for presentation to Great Britain. Over the ensuing year some £90,000 was subscribed from towns, shires, organisations and individuals throughout New South Wales. However, by the middle of the year, the Deakin Government had decided to establish an Australian navy and the proposal to present Britain with a battleship seemed unnecessary. The question arose what to do with the subscriptions, and some were returned to identified donors who wished for their money back. Most did not, and the Dreadnought Trust was established to dispose of the remainder, some £80,000. After discussion, it was agreed with widespread public support to donate around half to the Government towards the establishment of a naval college at Jervis Bay to train young Australians for the new navy; and the other half was placed in a fund to bring young men from British cities to be trained as rural workers on New South Wales farms. During the latter months of 1910, the Trustees of the Dreadnought Fund entered into an agreement with the NSW Government to bring out British boys between the ages of 16 and 19 ‘of good character and physique at a rate of about twenty every fortnight and to pay the Government £5 for each of the lads sent to the training farm’. The first ‘Dreadnought boys’ – twelve in number – arrived on 21 April 1911 and were followed by 27 others on 15 June. Overall, by February 1915, 2557 boys had arrived, and when the last group arrived in September 1939, the total number of Dreadnought boys brought to the state had reached 5595.

Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the declaration of the Dromana township

Tree commmemorates the 150th anniversary of the township of Dromana. (1861- 2011)

The Drung Soldier Settlement Monument commemorates the soldier settlers and their wives who pioneered irrigation dairy farming at Drung across 3110 acres, between 3rd October 1955-1997.

Monument commemorates the spot where on the 11th January 1895, an address was presented by the residents of Mount Victoria to E.M.G. Eddy, Chief Commissioner of Railways. The lookout at Mt York is known as Eddy Rock.

Memorial to early explorers in shape of a square-rigged ship. Bruny Island was sighted by Abel Tasman on his voyage to Tasmania in 1642, but the first European to land was the French admiral, Bruny D`Encetastreaux, after whom it is now known.

 Plaque dedicated in 1938 to the memory of the pioneers, listed by name,  who built the church. 

Ebenezer Church came into being following the arrival in the colony of New South Wales of eight families on board the ‘Coromandel’ in June 1802. These families – Davison, Hall, Howe, Johnston, Johnstone, Mein, Stubbs and Turnbull – came to the new colony with a request to be settled together. Their wish was granted by Governor King and they moved to their 100-acre land grants at Portland Head (Ebenezer) on the Hawkesbury River early in 1803.

They were joined by seven other families – Arndell, Bushell, Grono, Cavanough, Jacklin, Suddis and Jones – and met regularly on Sundays for services on Ebenezer Mount or in the homes of settlers. 

In 1808 at a special meeting in the home of Dr Thomas Arndell, a surgeon who came out on the First Fleet, each family pledged itself to the building of a church and school. The total cost of £400 was to be obtained from voluntary subscriptions. There was no assistance by way of finance or labour from the government.

Pioneer Owen Cavanough donated four acres of land on which to build the church. Andrew Johnston designed the church and supervised its construction. George Hall swam his bullocks across the river to haul the stone to the site. Built of locally obtained materials – sandstone, cedar wood and hardwood – it was constructed in 1809.

Plaque erected in 1959 by the Moderator general of the Presbyterain Church commemorates the pioneers, some of whom arrived on the "Coromandel" in 1802 and who helped build the Ebenezer Church which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1959. 

Ebenezer Church came Pioneer Owen Cavanough donated four acres of land on which to build the church. Andrew Johnston designed the church and supervised its construction. George Hall swam his bullocks across the river to haul the stone to the site. Built of locally obtained materials – sandstone, cedar wood and hardwood – it was constructed in 1809.into being following the arrival in the colony of New South Wales of eight families on board the ‘Coromandel’ in June 1802. These families – Davison, Hall, Howe, Johnston, Johnstone, Mein, Stubbs and Turnbull – came to the new colony with a request to be settled together.

They were joined by seven other families – Arndell, Bushell, Grono, Cavanough, Jacklin, Suddis and Jones – and met regularly on Sundays for services on Ebenezer Mount or in the homes of settlers.

Pioneer Owen Cavanough donated four acres of land on which to build the church. Andrew Johnston designed the church and supervised its construction. George Hall swam his bullocks across the river to haul the stone to the site. Built of locally obtained materials – sandstone, cedar wood and hardwood – it was constructed in 1809.

 The memorial was constructed with a foundation stone from the original Edenhope Pub. This first Pub (which is no longer standing) was thought to have been constructed by Chinese stonemasons on their way through Edenhope to the Victorian goldfields. It also features a plough and wheels to represent the agricultural pioneers and a hand water pump in acknowledgement of the urban settlers.

The first European settlers were the Hope family who established the Lake Wallace pastoral station in 1845. The town's name derives from the fact that the Hopes were from the River Eden in Scotland. A townsite was surveyed and gazetted in 1862. The first Australian cricketing team, an all-Aboriginal squad, trained here in 1868 prior to their departure. Their coach was T.W. Willis who founded Australian Rules football. Closer settlement of the area occurred in the 1930s.

Marks the site of Henty`s "Muntham" station.

Edward Henty, the founder of Victorian settlement, was born at West Tarring, in Sussex, 1809. He came to Van Diemen`s Land with his father Thomas in 1832, landed in Portland Bay November 19, 1834. Pushed inland from Portland about September 1836 with Stephen and established a sheep station at Mt. Eckersley.

From this point the Henty brothers (without Edward) proceeded the following year to the Wannon. Edward was the owner of Connell`s Run from 1844 to 1866, and Richmond 1866 to 1879. In 1854 he left Muntham and retired to Portland, building the Burswood residence. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1856 for the Normanby constituency, and remained in Parliament till 1861. About 1873 he left Portland and resided in St. Kilda Road, where he died August 14, 1878.

Monument was unveiled in 1934 on the centenary of the first landing by Edward Henty in Portland.

Edward Henty (28 March 1810 – 14 August 1878),was a pioneer and first permanent settler in the Port Phillip district (later Victoria), Australia.

Thomas Henty arrived at Launceston from England in April 1832 with three of his sons, Charles, Edward and Francis. It was difficult to find suitable land in Tasmania, and Edward was sent to explore the coast of the mainland. He reported that the district near Portland Bay had good possibilities, and after revisiting it with his father it was decided that the land was suitable for settlement. Edward went first on the Thistle with labourers, stock, potatoes and seed. After a voyage of 34 days the Thistle arrived at Portland Bay on 19 November 1834.

Commemorates the ex-World War One soldiers who obtained blocks on Elderslie Station, in the area south of Apsley now named Langkoop.

Stone and plaque erected by Burrumbeet Soldiers Memorial Hall commemorates soldier settlers of Ercildoune Estate. The plaque has a list of all soldier settlers from the area and also provides local history and information relating to soldier settler allocations from World War I.

Wall in hall with twelve timber plaques commemorates the families who settled the district

Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Westbury

Eticup was the original settlement in the district, and although never formally surveyed as a townsite, consisted during the 1870`s of several stores and a hotel, as well as several dwellings. The completion of the Great Southern Railway in 1889, which bypassed Eticup to the east, saw the demise of Eticup and the corresponding rise of Broomehill as a town.

Commemorates the returned servicemen and their families who settled on Ettrick Estate following World War Two.

The monument has a number of purposes and it commemorates the pioneering families of Clements, Marsh, Ditton, McMillan, Greenhalgh, Newell, Herbert, Welsh, Lehder, West and Woodgate.

It also commemorates the explorers Evans,  who was in the area on the 1st June 1815,  and John Oxley , who was in the area on the 30th April 1817, and commemorates William Holman who was Premier in 1915.

Monument characteristics :

Stone obelisk

Granite rock and plaque situated on the site of James Kirkland's homestead when he held the Euroa Run from 1841 to April 1851.  Erected by the Euroa and District Historical Society and Euroa  Shire Council in May 1985

Erected in 1938 by the citizens of Penrith to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the crossing of the Blue Mountains by Blaxland, Lawson & Wentworth and four servants in 1813. 

G.W Evans surveyed and William Cox constructed a road from the Nepean River to the Bathurst Plains beginning work on the 18th July 1814. A second plaque was erected by the Royal Australian and Nepean District Historical Society on the 16th November 1963 to record that Evans set out on the 20th November 1813 from near this spot and found a way across the Dividing Range to the Bathurst Plains and the Macquarie and Lachlan Rivers.

Memorial to the construction of the Eyre Highway. 

The first formed road to join the two States was started in July 1941, a job that took six months and   £250000  which was stimulated by the threat of Japanese invasion. The road was hastily constructed, the graders merely scouring the surface, and quickly deteriorated.

By 1959 eight cars were using the road each day, and for a time it was called either the Forrest Highway (the Prime Minister`s name for it in 1941) or the more traditional Eyre Highway. The road was sealed between Norseman and Perth by the late 1950s. By the 1960s`, there were still only 130 vehicles a day moving between Ceduna and Norseman. The Western Australian section had long been sealed; the South Australian section was sealed to Kimba in 1966, to Ceduna 15 months later, to Penong in 1973, and finally met the Western Australian road in September 1976, where a cairn decorated with two pairs of surveyor`s work boots commemorates the event.

Boulder in form of seat was presented by the Godwin, Dunn & Cook families to commemorate J Breckenridge , the founder of Failford in 1886, residents past and present, and the district's returned and fallen servicemen. 

Commemorates the contribution of migrants to the city of Fairfield.

The monument was created by the Fairfield Multicultural Society, originally 16 people from diverse cultural backgrounds who came together to honour the many nationalities settling in the area. Other dedicated locals joined the group over the years to promote harmony and cohesion in multicultural Fairfield City.

Fountain built to commemorate the centenary of Colonel William Light`s landing and birth of Fanny Lipson Finnis, the first European child born in the colony

Fernvale Bicentennial Memorial

Commemorates old and new settlers to Australia

Commemorates the pioneers of Finley and District

A sandstone plinth with flagpole to commemorate the location where the first ceremony of the saluting of the English flag by Captain Arthur Phillip took place, to mark the foundation of Australia following the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. 

The Union Jack flag is the most common name for the flag of the United Kingdom. The Union Jack has been in existence since 1606, when England and Scotland merged. In 1606, the first Union Jack flag was created by merging the English flag (the red cross of Saint George) with the Scottish flag (the diagonal white cross of Saint Andrew on a blue background). This was the flag used in the ceremony in 1788.  

In 1801, the addition of Ireland to the United Kingdom added the Irish flag to the flag (the red Saint Patrick's cross) which is the current design of the flag today. 

The plinth also contains a plaque unveiled on the 26th January 1988 to commemorate the bicentenary of the founding of the colony of New South Wales. 

Plaque commemorates the site of the farm established by Governor Phillip in 1788.

Governor Phillip originally intended to retain the land from Woolloomooloo Bay to Cockle Bay (Darling Harbour) as his own Domain. He allowed buildings on the western side of the Tank Stream but was able to keep the land on the eastern side for his own use. This land was cleared except for a few saplings and the Governor ordered the planting of ‘Nine acres in corn’ on the land which was later to become the first botanic garden in Australia.

Plaque is dedicated to the memory of those who arrived in Australia with Captain Arthur Phillip on the first fleet in 1788 and were buried nearby

Commemorates those who arrived on the First Fleet in 1788, and those who had burial services in the St Phillips Church which used to exist at this location.

The First Fleet Memorial Gardens consist of eleven circular gardens, representing the ships of the First Fleet approaching a large garden in the shape of Australia. A winding cobblestone path connects the Gardens, each of which has a number of surrounding sandstone tablets inscribed with the names of the persons who sailed on that ship.

Within each garden is a stone tablet featuring the name and a pictorial sketch of that particular ship. The Second Fleet Gardens consist of two gardens with stone tablets arranged by ship. Both gardens have interpretative signage largely drawn from the logs and memoirs of the participants.

 Plaque erected in memory of those who arrived in Australia with Governor Phillip on the First Fleet in 1788. 

Plaque commemorates the people who sailed to Australia on the eleven ships of the First Fleet.

The First Fleet is the name given to the eleven ships that sailed from Great Britain on 13 May 1787. The passengers consisted of: 10 civil officers, 212 Marines, including officers, an additional 28 wives and 17 children of the marines, 81 free persons, 504 male convicts and 192 female convicts; the number of free persons was 348 and the number of prisoners was 696, coming to a total of 1044 persons. The Fleet was led to New South Wales (as named by Captain Cook) in order to begin European colonisation in Australia.

The fleet was led by Captain (later Admiral) Arthur Phillip. The ships arrived at Botany Bay between 18 and 20 January 1788.

Plaques commemorate Owen Cavanough and his wife Margaret Dowling who were members of the First Fleet in 1788. Originally marked 1985 the plaques were unearthed in the walls of First Fleet House in 2008. They were rededicated at the grave site on the 20th September 2008.

Commemorates explorer Thomas Mitchell, the Henty Brothers and the settlers and labourers who created Victoria's first inland settlement

Land grants made in 1792 were the first in the municipality.

The first land grants in the local government area of Ryde were to two ex-marines in the vicinity of the current suburb of Melrose Park in January, 1792. This area was called 'Field of Mars', Mars being the god of war. From February 1792, small land grants were made to ex-convicts in the area called 'Eastern Farms' (part of the modern suburb of Ryde), because the land was east of Parramatta.

Erected as a Rotary International 75th Anniversary Project ( 1905 - 1980) and dedicated to the men, women and children who established the first Macquarie town now known as the City of Liverpool.

Tree commemorates the 175th anniversary of the founding of the first European settlement in Australia.

The Collins Settlement Historic Site commemorates the first European settlement in Victoria which was established here in October 1803 under Lieutenant-Governor David Collins. It consisted of 308 convicts, 51 marines, 17 free settlers, 12 civil officers, a missionary and his wife.

They had been sent from England principally out of fear that the French, who had been exploring the area, might establish their own settlement and thereby challenge British `rights` to the continent. When Lieutenant-Governor David Collins led a party of 300 convicts and 50 Marines ashore at Sullivan Bay in 1803 he ensured Sorrento’s place in history as the first European settlement in Victoria.

Collins Settlement Historic Site on the clifftop overlooking the bay includes a memorial to Collins and graves of some of those pioneer settlers. The British outpost on the Mornington Peninsula was short-lived and the penal colony was moved to Hobart the next year.

Bust of pioneer settler, George Evans (1785-1876) of Emu Bottom set on a cylindrical blue column with a plaque at the base, placed in front of the Council offices, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the settlement of Sunbury

Commemorates the first settlement in Port Phillip Bay in 1802

Plaque commemorates the first settlers of Acton Park.

Commemorates the centenary of the construction of Fort Denison.

Fort Denison ( also known as Pinchgut Island ) is a former penal site and defensive facility occupying a small island located north of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.

In 1839, two American warships entered the harbour at night and circled Pinchgut Island. Concern with the threat of foreign attack caused the government to review the harbour's inner defences. Barney, who had earlier reported that Sydney’s defences were inadequate, recommended that the government establish a fort on Pinchgut Island to help protect Sydney Harbour from attack by foreign vessels. Fortification of the island began in 1841 but was not completed. Construction resumed in 1855 because of fear of a Russian naval attack during the Crimean War, and was completed on 14 November 1857. The newly-built fort then took its current name from Sir William Thomas Denison, the Governor of New South Wales from 1855 to 1861.

Commemorates the foundation of Warrnambool 

The memorial was constructed in 1979 to commemorate the founders of Rockingham and previously housed a time capsule which was opened in 2001.

Rockingham got its name from the sailing ship Rockingham one of the three vessels bought by Thomas Peel to carry settlers to Western Australia (the others being the Gilmore and the Hooghly), arriving in May 1830. The Rockingham was blown ashore and eventually abandoned after failed attempts to refloat her. Settlers supposedly camped near the wreck used the name "Rockingham Town" as their address.

Rockingham was first surveyed and lots offered for sale in 1847. However, few lots were sold until the development of a railway and jetty in 1872 to transport jarrah timber and sandalwood from Jarrahdale overseas. Rockingham prospered until the construction of the Inner Harbour of Fremantle in 1897, which caused Rockingham as a timber port to steadily decline.

The towering lemon-scented gums lining Fraser Avenue from the main entrance to the restaurant precinct were planted in 1937 and each tree has a memorial plaque to prominent Western Australian citizens commemorated in 1929, the centenary of colonial establishment.

Commemorates the returned soldiers and their families who settled on Gala Estate after World War Two. 

Soldier settlement refers to the occupation and settlement of land throughout parts of Australia by returning discharged soldiers under schemes administered by the State Governments after World Wars One and Two.

Large sculpture which commemorates Wellington and the surrounding districts.

The tree is a monument to one of Tumbarumba’s founding families, the Gaylards, who initiated the first timber industry in the area . The tree was planted during the 1940s .

Plaque erected on the 12th March 1921 to mark the tree where the first settlers camped on the 12th February 1922. The plaque is on private property.

Commemorates pastoralist and founder of Greenethorpe.

On 9 July 1890, George Greene became a foundation member of the Pastoralists` Union of New South Wales. He favoured conciliation with the Amalgamated Shearers` Union of Australasia and unlike many other pastoralists, he was not opposed to unionism itself. In 1893 he was a commissioner for the World`s Columbian Exposition at Chicago. Greene`s wheat-growing gradually met with success and in 1893 he introduced share-farming, which soon proved very popular. By 1911 his property Iandra had some fifty share-farmers working 18,000 acres (7284 ha); with another 5000 acres (2024 ha) fallow and 20,000 sheep being run. The farmers supplied the labour and machinery, while Greene provided land cleared for ploughing, the seed and some fertilizer, and closely controlled the farming practices. In 1903 Greene was the first to grow W. J. Farrer`s `Federation` wheat commercially. As Iandra prospered, Greene in 1908 started building a village at the Iandra rail siding that became known as Greenethorpe.

A plaque commemorates the centenary of the town which was first settled in 1906.   A windmill marks the site of the original Geranium bore which started the town.

Farm machinery commemorates the pioneers who settled in 1906.

The district was first farmed in the late part of the 1800`s, however, it was not until 1906 that viable farming activities came into existence due to the introduction of rail services and pioneering families moving into the district and permanently settling.

Commemorates the German pioneers of Western Victoria and their contribution to agriculture in this area with their experience of dry-climate farming

Commemorates pioneers, Thomas Napier who squatted here in 1839, and to Madeline Scott who held the `Bushy Park` run here from 1841 to 1845

Memorial to Thomas Caskey, pioneer settler and member of a committee which established Arbour Day in schools in Queensland. Thomas Caskey and his family were among the first settlers in the district in 1867. Caskey was a member of the committee which established and served the local school. The committee founded the lending library system and initiated the planting of trees in the school grounds from which the custom of Arbour Day in Queensland developed.

Commemorates the thrity-eight World War One soldiers who received allotments in the Glenorchy Soldier Settlement estate.

Commemorates Soldier Settlers of the area.

After World War Two, hundreds of returned soldiers took part in the soldier settler scheme designed to reinvigorate our primary industries. Large tracts of land across most states of Australia were developed in this way growing new communities and creating a new generation of farmers.