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These verdant plains; a history of the shire of East Loddon, Victoria

Title
These verdant plains; a history of the shire of East Loddon, Victoria, by Michael Sharland.
Author
Sharland, Michael, 1899-1987.
Publication
Melbourne, Hawthorn Press [1971]

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Description
248 pages illustrations, maps, portraits; 22 cm
Summary
Scattered references to Aboriginal peoples throughout the text; Aboriginal people stealing stock animals; some references to Aboriginal place names; observsation of the lack of records kept of Aboriginal people by the Shire; references to private collection of Aboriginal weapons and utensils; establishment of the Ebenezer settlement just west of Antwerp station in 1859 by Moravian missionaries (p. 172).
Subject
  • Ebenezer Mission Station (Vic.)
  • Daungwurrung / Taungurong people (S37) (Vic SJ55-02)
  • Religions - Christianity - Missions
  • Colonisation
  • Settlement and contacts - 19th Century
  • East Loddon, Australia > History
  • Serpentine (NW Vic SJ54-04)
  • Wedderburn (NW Vic SJ54-04)
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 222-223.
LCCN
76879035
OCLC
  • ocm00247478
  • 247478
  • SCSB-871424
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library