New Crossing Place: A history of Seymour and its shire by H G Martindale extended to 1982 by Niall Brennan (Second Hand Book)

SECOND HAND BOOK – EX-LIBRARY

Second and revised edition.

The 150th Anniversary of the foundation of Victoria focuses our attention on the earliest colonial settlements, long before the gold era. Seymour was the first inland township in Victoria. Its site was discovered in 1824 by Hume and Hovell, on the first inland exploration from New South Wales, a decade before any successful European settlement in Victoria. Early in 1837 some of the first cattle overlanded so far south were grazed on pastures in the region, and within two years much of the present Shire of Seymour had been taken up as ‘runs’ by squatters from the north.

New Crossing Place traces the development of the Seymour district through the various phases of squatting, the gold rush, selection, the railway, the Army and other phases that have shaped the nature of the district and determined its current status and future prospects. Furthermore, to this framework, a vast quantity of carefully researched detail has been applied to record and explain the development of Seymour as a non-typical Victorian country town, having grown without the aid of gold, but with other local peculiarities, in the face of challenges and changes, over almost the full period of Victoria’s existence as a Colony and a State.

Specifications:

Condition: Fair – ex-library book, plastic wrapped with library labels on spine, inside covers have library stamps, slight yellowing.

Publisher: Shire of Seymour

Year: 1982

Format: Hardback, with dustjacket

Pages: 243pp

ISBN: 0959274707

$13.00

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