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Hinterland Stories
Sharing the memories of Montville, Flaxton, Balmoral and Hunchy.
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Under the Radar – Obi Obi Creek and Tcheergun Walking Tracks
The MVA Walking Track from below Baroon Dam to the Narrows: 1989 – 1998 The first MVA record of a proposed walking track to the Obi Obi...
Obi Obi Creek Map
When the Baroon Pocket Dam was being constructed.
North Maleny Pioneers
A wonderful history told by Mr. William Simpson, about the first visitors, and the ones who stayed, all while being helped by the local...
Early Records of Baroon – pre settlement of Maleny and Montville
Long before the now well-known hinterland town names such as Maleny, Montville and Mapleton there was Boorum (Baroon). Records of its...
Baroon Pocket – Part 4: Before the Dam; 1975 to 1989
By the late 1970s the Pocket had changed. The dairy industry had collapsed and the community had moved on to mixed farming, hobby farming...
Baroon Pocket – Part 3: Before the Dam; 1960 to 1975
When the dam was built across the Obi Obi Creek in 1989 it flooded thousands of years of history. Baroon Pocket was one of only a handful...
Baroon Pocket Part 2 - The first settlers
The history of settlement in Montville lists the Weitemeyers as being the first official residents in 1887. But in fact, one family,...
A Gesture of Reconciliation
Aunty Frances Mathyssen, 2019 In her acceptance speech, one of our Australians of the Year, Yorta Yorta elder and teacher, Aunty Frances...
Recollections by Richard Haynes
Richard Haynes 1928 Richard Courtenay Haynes was born in Montville on 6 August 1918. Along with his sisters, Kathleen and Marjorie,...
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