Genealogy Australia

Facsimile of the original published in 1928. A comprehensive history of North Eastern Tasmania and its people. This book is probably the only one of its kind, written in the early 20th century by a person living at that time (the Hon. A.W. Loone), because of this, 'Tasmania's North East' makes very interesting reading, and has been read in the 'present tense' on current history and facts about the early North East, the reader feels present at the time. The history of the state is very largely the history of the men and women who went into the wilderness and battled the elements to establish themselves in a difficult environment. Includes men who enlisted from various municpalities and saw service overseas in the Great War 1914-1919. Parliamentarians are listed, aboriginals are noted as well.

Contents:
Chapter 1
 - The first expedition
 - An arduous journey
 - A second trip
 - A stream of settlers
 - The joke that failed
Chapter 2
 - Early difficulties
 - The toll of inexperience
 - Chipping in the grain
 - The labour market
 - Laborious methods
Chapter 3
 - The spirit of neighbourliness
 - Food problems
 - The pioneer heart
 - Not a paradise
 - The first roads
Chapter 4
 - Road contracting
 - Timber splitting
 - The first shores
 - Mail contract let
 - A traffic 'war'
Chapter 5
 - Stores and post office
 - Improved threshers
 - The passing of brown flour
 - Fashions of the day
 - Rapid increase in population
 - Honesty and peace
Chapter 6
 - Sport and entertainment
 - An all-round family
 - Religion versus racing
 - The Thespian art
 - Then and now
Chapter 7
 - The first two brides
 - The natural increase
 - The churches
 - Lively digging days
Chapter 8
 - The Scottsdale Mechanics
 - The churches
 - Public institutes
 - Sawmilling
Chapter 9
 - Sawmills of the coast
 - Sawmillers' association
 - Council of agriculture
 - Life on the land
 - 'Work, boys, work!' 
Chapter 10
 - Potatoes
 - Wheat growing
 - Experience with grasses
 - The bracken pest
Chapter 11
 - Pioneering methods
 - Flax growing
 - Orcharding
 - Railways and shipping
Chapter 12
 - First blacksmith's forge
 - Principal buildings
 - The Memorial Hospital
 - Municipal council
 - Show committee
 - Education
 - The first telegram
 - Pioneer settlers
 - The first Sunday school
 - Newspaper correspondents
Chapter 13
 - Ringarooma
 - Early clearing operations
 - Pioneers of Ringarooma
 - A rich district
 - Beautiful farms
Chapter 14
 - Census of 1861 and 1970
 - Gold and tin mining
 - The Lyndhurst field
 - A gold rush
 - Poor quality gold
 - 'Salting' a mine
Chapter 15
 - The north-east goldfields
 - First woman on Lisle field
 - Disappointed diggers
 - Gladstone
 - Mystery of early leases
Chapter 16
 - Discovery of tin
 - First company formed
 - Mine manager appointed
 - Putting in a dam
 - Changed of management
Chapter 17
  - Ringarooma's first tin mine
 - Bell's Hill mine
 - A mule of character
 - Changes of half a century
Chapter 18
 - The Old Nugget mine
 - Cattle and mining
 - Tin land purchased
 - Ringarooma
 - The Brothers' Home
 - Derby's first store
Chapter 19
 - Diprose's enterprise
 - Derby business grows
 - The wonderful Briseis
 - Ringarooma municipality
Chapter 20
 - Moorina district
 - The road to Weldborough
 - The old tin mines
 - A wealth of tin
 - Warm, but weird
 - Chinese at Weldborough
 - Weldborough today
Chapter 21
 - The road to Lottah
 - Old tin mines
 - Rich tin land
Chapter 22
 - Lottah and Gould's Country
 - St Helens
 - Scamander
 - St Mary's
 - Fingal
Chapter 23
 - Gold discovered
 - Robert Vincent Legge
 - St Mary's hospital
 - A noted stud farm
 - Men who have prospered
 - Cattle and sheep stations
 - Money from skins
Chapter 24
 - Lilydale
 - Fruit, timber, gold
 - No hotel
 - The first settler
 - Early institutions
 - The United Church
 - Names to be remembered
Chapter 25
 - Railway line
 - Tin discovery
 - Tigers
 - R. Coplestone
 - James Smith
Chapter 26
 - James Smith
 - Bowood Estate
 - First members of municipal councils
 - Blue Tier
 - Pioneer mines
Chapter 27
 - Mont Cameron mines
 - Our elder people
Chapter 28
 - Flinders Island
 - Tin mining
 - Local institutions
 - Members of parliament
 - Workers' educational classes
Chapter 29
 - Accidents and death
 - A terrible ordeal
 - A woman registrar
 - Thomas Beswick
 - Child shockingly mutilated
Chapter 30
 - Henry Webb
 - Ringarooma pioneers
 - Water races
Chapter 31
 - The Briseis mine
 - The mine sold
Chapter 32
 - Early pioneers
 - Teams loaded with tin
 - Pyenfgana district
 - The cheese-makers
 - Gould's Country
 - Fingal
 - Our Soldiers
Chapter 33
 - Tamar Rive
 - Mr William Hunter
 - The Tamar orchards
 - The first mills
 - The east side farms
Chapter 34
 - History of the Tamar
 - Flinders and Bass
 - Collins' expeditions
 - Colonel Paterson
 - Cattle shipment
 - From Norfolk Island
 - James Kelly, explorer
 - George Town founded
 - Headquarters at Launceston
 - Washing up the Gorge
 - Launceston's water supply
 - The old semaphores
 - First land occupied
 - Windermere
 - Some Parliamentary Personalities
Chapter 35
 - More about the Tamar
 - Low Head lighthouse
 - The first steamboat
 - Some of the pioneers
 - Early shipping
 - 'City of Launceston' wrecked
 - Mills in the early days
 - The first gold discovered
 - Tasmania gold mine
 - Shipwrecks
Chapter 36
 - With the historians
 - The Tamar district
 - Tasman and Furneaux
 - Captain Cook
Chapter 37
 - Early visitors
 - D'Entrecasteaux and the natives
 - Strange garments
 - A dinner party
 - First convict ships
 - Early settlement days
 - William Buckley
Chapter 38
 - The morals of the time
 - The churches
 - Launceston-Hobart mail
 - Days of Darkness
 - The first church built
  - First newspaper
Chapter 39
 - Tragic kangaroo drive
 - Black against white
 - Victoria settled in 1834
 - John Batman
 - John Pascoe Fawkner
Chapter 40
 - Home-sickness
 - Religious instruction
 - Robinson's work
 - Melancholy end
 - Sold their blankets
 - A native man
 - Their home
 - Intelligent native
Chapter 41
 - Conclusion
 - The death of Mathinna
 - King Billy's end
 - Truganini