Harden Murrumburrah History

Harden Murrumburrah: Aboriginal heritage | Cinema / Picture Theatres | Council Chambers | Fossil animals | Flying into Harden 1914 | Historic Buildings | Hotels, Pubs & Inns | McMahon's Reef Goldfield | Platypus | Postal Services | Sheep | Australian News for Home Readers , 25 May 1864 . Let's talk about sheep and Harden-Murrumburrah.....   During 1880 the New South Wales Postmaster General introduced the name County of Harden to a large section of land on the south western slopes of the Great Dividing Range which runs roughly north-south through the eastern part of that state. The new country included the districts of Young, Yass, Cootamundra, Gundagai and Boorowa. The first European settlers to officially occupy the region arrived in the early 1820s, including Ned Ryan at Galong around 1825. At that time the area was designated "beyond the limits of settlement" by the governor, and official allocation of land did not occur until the followi

Maurice Guillaux - 50th Anniversary 1964 | Postcards & Philatelics 1913+ | Flying into Harden 1914 | First Australian Aerial Mail 1914 | Australia - photographs & film 1914 Maurice Guillaux at the controls of the Blériot XI, 1914. Collection: Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Pioneering French aviator Maurice Guillaux is famous for completing the first official aerial mail (airmail) flight in Australia from Melbourne to Sydney – a distance of 930 kilometres - between Thursday 16 and Saturday 18 July 1914. He was supported in this venture by the the Commonwealth Postmaster General (PMG) Department, precedent to the modern day Australia Post. In this feat, Guillaux carried freight and mail between the two cities solo aboard his Blériot XI monoplane. Guillaux had arrived in the country on 30 March and departed 200 days later on 22 October. During that period he undertook numerous exhibition flights in both his own plane and a seaplane, conducted interviews, crashed once, dis

Maurice Guillaux: 50th Anniversary 1964 | Postcards & Philatelics 1913+ | Flying into Harden 1914 | First Australian Aerial Mail 1914 | Australia - photographs & film 1914 | Maurice Guillaux at Melbourne Showground, 16 July 1914, being handed mail by the Acting Postmaster General of Australia. 1. Introduction Maurice Guillaux completed the first official aerial mail (airmail) flight in Australia from Melbourne to Sydney – a distance of 930 kilometres - between Thursday 16 and Saturday 18 July 1914. This landmark feat is noted in the Nelson Eustis definitive The Australian Air Mail Catalogue , first published in 1937 (Eustis 1965, 1984). Guillaux was supported in this venture by the the Commonwealth Postmaster General (PMG) Department, precedent to the modern day Australia Post. In this feat, Guillaux carried freight and mail between the two cities solo aboard his Blériot XI monoplane. His route and approximate arrival and departure / takeoff and landing times were as f