Teamsters & Carriers
Teamsters were among the first to make their way out to the west after Mitchell explored the area in the 1840s. The land was surveyed into consolidated holdings, with managers and owners, the rural gentry …
Pastoral
Jackson Bros – Drovers
Who were the Jackson Bros? The Jackson Bros company comprised Barlow and Jack, and operated for over 20 years. Their droving business was based in Barcaldine, and they moved stock ‘the length and breadth of the …
A Western Holocaust
In 1988, on the 70th anniversary of the disastrous 1918 bush fires on Willoughby, Saltern Creek and Rodney Downs, the members of the Barcaldine Historical Society placed a plague in the vicinity of the fires …
Disastrous bush fires of 1918
On 29 and 30 October 1918, bushfires claimed the lives of seven stockmen on Saltern Creek, Willoughby and Rodney Downs stations. Their deaths were recorded as: ‘an unfortunate accident, owing to the very hot dry …
Pastoral and Town Directory 1891
Pastoral and Town Directory 1891 In 1891, the Western Champion listed the Pastoral and Town Directory for the greater Barcaldine area in its ‘1891 Almanac‘. It provides a valuable record of the towns and the …