OUR COLLECTION

Stones, Springs and Wild Things

Our new booklet, "Stones, Springs and Wild
Things" is now available.

Produced by the Mount Rouse History Centre, it is available for purchase at a cost of $15 plus $2.80 postage. Please contact us for details.

GET YOURS NOW!

We hold a curated collection of books and publications related to the history of Mount Rouse, Penshurst and the local district - browse below.

A ~ B    |   C ~ G   |  H ~ K  |  L ~ O   |   P ~ S   |   T ~ Z   |   Local Publications  

A ~ B

  • Aboriginal Australian Communities
  • Agricultural & Pastoral
  • Almanacs
  • Ambulance Service
  • Anzac Day
  • Banks And Banking
  • Bullock Teams & Bullockies
  • Businesses  
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C ~ G

  • Cemetery
  • Census
  • Chinese
  • Churches
  • Closer Settlement and Soldier Settlement
  • Communications: Penshurst News, Penshurst Free Press
  • Clubs & Associations
  • Court House: Court Cases from The Penshurst Free Press, Court Documents, Inquests
  • Diaries
  • Electoral Rolls
  • Elements
  • Entertainment
  • Family Histories
  • Farming
  • Fires & Fire Brigades
  • Flaxmill: Penshurst Flax Growers Association Minute Book 1943-1949
  • Gold
  • Government Gazettes
  • Gravel Pits 
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H ~ K

  • Halls
  • Historical Society
  • Hospital & Medical
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Independent Order of Rechabites
  • Infant Welfare
  • Institute for the Blind  
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L ~ O

  • Lakes
  • Land Care
  • Ledgers: Butter & Cheese, Collins, Cook (C.B), Madigan’s, Mcclintock, Penshurst Hotel, Schramm, Sharrock
  • Library
  • Local Government
  • Local History
  • Lutheran: Herrnhut, Tabor, Hidden Treasures 1838-1938 Lutheran Women of Australia.
  • Maps & Plans
  • Mounts: Mount Rouse
  • Murders
  • Museum: Burger’s Cottage
  • Natural History
  • Organisations  
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P ~ S

  • Parish Maps
  • Parks, Ovals and Reserves
  • Pastoral and Agricultural Society
  • Pastoral Properties
  • Penshurst Park
  • Penshurst Town Plans
  • Penshurst Town Maps
  • Pests
  • Photographic Collection
  • Police
  • Post Office
  • Pound and Pound Keepers
  • Properties: Large Land Owners 1912, Subdivisions of Estates, Property Sales & Transfers, Individual Properties
  • Railways
  • Research - Local Publications (see list)
  • Research in general
  • Residences in Penshurst
  • Roads
  • R.S.L.
  • Schools
  • Shires (Not Local)
  • Societies, Organisations and Clubs
  • Soldier Settlement
  • Sport and Recreation 
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T ~ Z

  • Tours & Tourism
  • Towns
  • Transport
  • Undertakers
  • Volcanoes
  • Wars
  • Yatmerone Reserve: Hutton’s Dam 
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Research - Local Publications

  • Boring not Likely.
  • Windows of Yesterday.
  • The Major Mitchell Trail.
  • When the World was Wide: Hamilton during the 1880s.
  • Dunkeld and District: A short History.
  • Footprints from the Past by Natalie Gash 2007
  • From Forest Swamps and Stones by Peter Yule 1988
  • Hamilton, A Western District History by Don Garden 1947
  • Men of Yesterday by Margaret Kiddle 1961
  • Byaduk Settlers Book.
  • Dunkeld Calendar 2000.
  • Dundas Shire 1863-1963
  • Glenthompson Booklet.
  • Hidden Treasures 1838-1938 Lutheran Church.
  • History of Football in the Western District. Compiled by John Stoward 2008
  • Memories from Penshurst’s Past. Jack Chesswas
  • Mininera District Netball 1939-1999.
  • Monivae Booklet by Ian Black. Published by Hamilton History Centre in May 1996
  • Mt Eccles, The PotatoVillage. Mt Eccles near Macarthur. Beverley M Ross
  • Mt Sturgeon to Dunkeld 150 years.
  • Mount Rouse Centenary Book.
  • Penshurst Memories. Transcribed from Mat Brown’s Diaries.
  • Tabor 1853 – 1976 Back to Tabor 1976.
  • Tabor School 1976 – 1990 Book.
  • Wickliffe Booklet.
  • Yambuk Lake
  • Penshurst & District Hospital Annual Reports.
  • Lookout Visitors Book. 1962