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The first volume in Norm Beechey and Dorothy Baker's history of Dover and Port Esperance — the small community on the shore of Port Esperance Bay in southern Tasmania, some 90km south of Hobart. This volume covers the earliest years of European settlement in the area from 1845 to 1875 — the establishment of the settlement, the convict station at Dover, the first families who took up land in the district, the Hope Island timber industry, the early timber-getters and farmers, and the community institutions including the Good Templars and the early churches and schools.

Gold was discovered in the tributaries of the Pieman River from the late 1870s, and the boomtown of Corinna sprang up at a key river crossing point, becoming a jumping-off point for prospectors pushing on to Mount Heemskirk, Zeehan and Mount Lyell.

The Circular Head District Agricultural, Pastoral, Horticultural and Poultry Association held its first show in November 1907, on what was then the old cricket ground.

J.S. Weeding's history of the lower Midlands district of Tasmania — the region south of Campbell Town encompassing Oatlands, Tunbridge, Antill Ponds, Jericho, Interlaken, Parattah, Mount Seymour, Lake Tiberias, Rhyndaston, Stonor, Tunnack, Woodsdale, Andover, Levendale, Stonehenge and Swanston. The lower Midlands is convict-era country — the road south from Campbell Town passes through landscapes shaped by assigned convict labour, pastoral runs, coaching inns and probation stations.