A Chronicle of Change

The history of the Mansfield District is as old as Australia itself going back many thousands of years.

However for obvious reasons documented records do not go beyond the late 1830's with the coming of the first European settlers to the area. From then until 1864 our information has largely come from the private letters of settlers to relatives or associates in Mel-bourne, Sydney or the U.K.

From 1864 however, with the establishment of a local newspaper, we have a contmous record of life in the district as it evolved on a day to day basis in response to the world-wide political, scientific and commercial influences.

The Mansfield Historical Society undertook a mammoth task to recognise Australia's bicentennial year. Society members, working in pairs, researched the district's history through the files of the Mansfield Courier.

Each team looked at a period of 10 years, and extracted the important news items from about 500 issues of the Courier.

From their research the content of these pages has been extracted.

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