A History of Dover & Port Esperance Tasmania – Volume 1: Earliest Years 1845–1875 | Norm Beechey & Dorothy Baker | 1997 [USED – SC – Very Good]

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.

Named families documented include Spurr, Broadhurst, Boothman, Andrewartha, Clennett, Christie, Chapman, Clayton, Wholagan and others — making this a useful resource for family historians with Dover and Port Esperance connections. Volume 2 — covering the later years 1875–1925 — is also often available from The Book Cellar.

BOOK DETAILS

• Softcover.
• 173 pages, indexed.
• Black and white photographs.
• Published 1997. Out of print.

CONDITION

• Used, generally very good condition.
• Some faint dark speckles on the back cover. 

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