Bright Pictorial Heritage 1850 to 2011
Forestry
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About this Project
Brief History of Bright
Historical Timeline
Old Tobacco Sheds and Gold Museum
Boys' Camp
Bright Cemetery
Courthouse and Lockup
Beautiful Trees in Bright
Bushfires
Memorial Arboretum
Gold Mining
Canyon Gold Sluicing Site
Freeburgh and Germantown
Forestry
Baker's Gully Reserve
Bright Railway 1890 to 1983
Early Horseraces
Early Miniature Car Races
Huggin's Lookout
Clear Spot, Apex, Tower Hill Lookouts
Walking Tracks
Wandiligong
Porepunkah
Maps
References and Bibliography
1950 Plantations from Tower Hill Lookout
1936 School children planting pines
The first pine plantation came to the area during 1913 to utilize dredge tailings from mining activity and to combat the spread of the weed St John’s Wort.
Sadly, the degraded areas also later became the home of the forever spreading blackberry.
1929 Pine plantations
1925 Pine plantations camp
1950 Pine plantations
Comments welcome, to
Bob Padula
