1869: The owner of the land where our downtown now stands, George Baker Waller Sr., from Virginia, deeded one-half interest in 150 acres of his land to the railroad company
Meet Ivy Weber, born in Captains Flat and the inaugural president of the Women for Canberra movement, who proved to be a “remarkably effective force for. Australian unity”. NICHOLE OVERALL looks at the life of this forgotten activist.
1862 — Much of the Forest City stockade (for protection from the Sioux uprising) went up in one day, on Sept. 3. Luckily there were logs close by that were