Description
SECONDHAND BOOK
Wodonga has an long written history extending over more than one hundred and fifty years.
Hamilton Hume, the 1824 explorer, is justly regarded as the ‘Father of the Upper Murray’. William Wyse in 1835 set up Bonegilla for C.H. Ebden and in 1836 Paul Huon, son of a French nobleman, took up the Wodonga run and a town began to develop.
Wodonga suffered greatly after the discovery of gold at Beechworth in 1852. Roads became almost impassable, so that goods had to be brought up from Adelaide by steamer. Ten vessels regularly traded with Albury and a Port of Wodonga was gazetted. A Customs House was set up in 1857 and it became a kind of sport to avoid paying customs dues on gold.
The coming of the railway in 1873 ended isolation and brought a host of selectors so that schools, churches and social life arose.
Despite the Boer War, two World Wars, fires, floods, droughts and bushfires, the farmers prospered, laying the foundations for today. And from 1945 on, the coming of important industries trebled the population and led to spectacular development.
Specifications:
Condition: Fair – spine very faded, pages yellowed, inscription in front cover.
Publisher: The Hawthorn Press
Year: 1976
Format: Hardback, with dustjacket
Pages: 241pp
ISBN: 07256001485
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