In a letter to the general public, author Richard Osburne describes this book
as: 'a record which would give the names of the pioneers, and as far as possible
detail the movements and doings of those who, for the most part, at the
expenditure of great personal toil and indomitable perseverance, and of others
in the laying out of solid cash, converted from the wilderness those famous
lands and prolific broad acres which are now so celebrated throughout the colony
of Victoria.'
What he produced was the 'History of Warrnambool: from the first Government
land sales in 1847 to the end of 1886'. Osburne describes in detail forty years
of settlement, trade, religion, education, sports, associations, government,
statistics and people in the town of Warrnambool from his point of view as a man
connected with nearly all the public movements of the town - social, political,
and religious - from 1847 up to 1886.
High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. This CD has been bookmarked for easy
navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
