NORTHERN STAR, LISMORE, NSW. WEDNESDAY 16 MAY 1894.
EARLY HISTORY OF LISMORE The town of Lismore takes its name, as we have before published, from the squattage of Lismore, the head station of which composed what is now part of the site of the town. The country was first taken up by a Mr. Dumaresque, but soon passed into the hands of the late Mr. William Wilson, of Monaltrie, who took possession in February 1844, just half a century ago. Lismore's Jubilee Publication 1929
ISLAND OF LISMORE
SURVEYED IN 1856
Mrs. Wilson, who died about three years
The site of his store, a simple hut, was that now
since, we have ascertained, named her
occupied by the Australian Joint Stock Bank,
future home after the small island of Lismore, one of the Hebrides in Loch Linnhe, Argyleshire. For
many
years
and
a
schooner came up to load cedar, and entirely missing the embryo township, went away up Leycester's Creek several miles, when, to the
the
population
here
consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, their family,
and the story is told that in the early days a
few
station
hands,
supplemented by the cedar getters, who
crew's great disgust, they discovered their mistake. The stories of early days would fill a small volume, but we must pass on. The only means of access to Ballina in those days was by water,
for many years found a rich harvest of
and by pulling a boat, the distance close on 70
cedar along the banks of the various
miles, making a total of 140 miles which had
streams and in the dense brushes which
often to be accomplished to procure rations,
clothed the volcanic hills to their summit. Schooners
were
regular
visitors,
and
eventually, a small store was established
tobacco and other requisites. A town was surveyed in 1856, and then, early in 1857, a few town Iots were sold. It made very little progress for many years, and the older
by Mr. Henry Brown, who was a local
settlements
buyer of timber.
looked.
of
Casino,
Coraki
and
Ballina
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