Presented by Therese Sweeney, Historian & Podcast presenter / producer.

Photograph: Jaspers Brush Post Office 1951 -Southern side of princes HWy

Themes: Name Jasper, cedar cutting, land owners the Berry Brothers & E.Wollstoncraft, timber exports, early butter & milk trade, roads, school, hall, railway, land owners after new sub division 1892. milk 1920s Nowra Milk Co-op.

References:

1. Notes & documents from 1997 Jaspers Brush school reunion committee. Including details and photos of pioneering families.
2. Various maps held by the Ison family of Berry, Jaspers Brush etc.
3. Sales map of Coolangatta & Berry Estates-undated (1893-1908) with Railway Line Jaspers Brush region.plus other information;
4. Roads & Maritime Services Report Berry-Bomaderry 2013
5. As above.. Gerringong to Berry 2006
6. Alexander Berry The Laird of Shoalhaven, Royal Australian Historical Society Journal Volume 27 Part 1 1941
7. Royal Australian Historical Society Journal V 46 No 2, 1960 by A.K. Weatherburn.
8. The first SubDiv. Sales of Shoalhaven Estates, The property of the late David Berry Esq. 1982. 79 pages.
9. Spotted Gum & ironbark-An environmental History of the South Coast NSW forestry. by Leith Davis University of Western Sydney PHD thesis 2020.
10. Regional Histories of NSW, Heritage Office. Dept. Urban Affairs & Planning, 1996.
11. Trove-various press articles.

First century of Dairying in NSW by Frank McCaffrey 1909.

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