Koonorigan : A scrapbook of stories, memories, photographs and documents supplied by some of the people who called Koonorigan home for at least part of their lives.: A scrapbook of stories, memories, photographs and documents supplied by some of the people who called Koonorigan home for at least part of their lives.

By Smith, Michael

Book Id: WPLBN0100750774
Format Type: PDF (eBook)
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Reproduction Date: 01/01/2004

Title:	Koonorigan : A scrapbook of stories, memories, photographs and documents supplied by some of the people who called Koonorigan home for at least part of their lives.: A scrapbook of stories, memories, photographs and documents supplied by some of the people who called Koonorigan home for at least part of their lives.
Author:	Smith, Michael
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Geography, Anthropology, Recreation, Local history of Koonorigan, a region in NSW, Australia.
Collections:	Authors Community, Adventure
Historic Publication Date:	2004
Publisher:	Self

Member Page:	Michael Smith
Citation APA MLA Chicago Smith, M. (2004). Koonorigan : A scrapbook of stories, memories, photographs and documents supplied by some of the people who called Koonorigan home for at least part of their lives.. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
The lives of some of the people who lived in Koonorigan in the 1900's.The following history was written as part of the celebration of the ‘Koonorigan Public School Golden Jubilee’ in 1961. The little district of Konorigan lies on what is named on a Parish map of 1912 as ‘Konorigan Range’. It rises from the low land of Goolmangar, by way of a steep ascent to the main ridge that leads eventually to the Nightcap Range, which is the watershed of the Richmond-Tweed River systems. It is difficult to say who were the first white men to penetrate here, because these hills were all part of the real ‘Big Scrub’, and heavy standing scrub it remained until well into the 1800s. Thus, the cutters of cedar and pine, teak and beech were undoubtedly the first to enter this particularly steep part of the Big Scrub in the 19th century, and bullock tracks wound into and upwards along its ridges, drawing its logs to several ‘shooting’ places where they were ‘shot’ or skidded down to lower levels. Two or three vestiges of such ‘shoots’ can still be seen, e.g. where the logs came down to Coffee Camp to be hauled away by the teams.

Summary
A scrapbook of stories, memories, photographs and documents supplied by some of the people who called Koonorigan home for at least part of their lives.

Excerpt
One morning in 1955, after a lot of rain, the Cox’s cows did not come up for their milking. After a search they were found on a patch of ground 400 metres across that had slipped 2 metres down the hill. The sides were too steep for them to climb out. A neighbour who had bought the land next to the spring had a problem with Crofton weed and bought 20 goats to do the clearing. The Cox’s cows had never seen goats before and they went crazy. It took a week for them to settle back into their routine. Wild dogs eventually ate all the goats.