by Linda Fisher This short story I wrote is a ‘faction’ piece…fiction written around basic facts, about my great, great grandmother arriving here with her 7 children to join their father, her husband LC Holmes who had travelled here a year earlier to purchase land and begin building their Read more
This article was written by Tony Ware, formerly a resident of Korumburra, he now lives in Western Australia. He writes of the antics of a little known organisation. “KORUMBURRA BACHELORS’ CLUB” The initial version of same occurred in September 1923 with the Hon. Secretary, H.A. Johnson aka Benjamin Harold Agar Read more
By Dennis Conn It would seem that due to the mists of time, the passing of a generation and population change, knowledge of this man in South Gippsland has all but been lost. A memoir of him by author Oswald Stuart Green “The Ensign Bearer” – Businessman-Churchman-Philanthropist, gives a detailed Read more
As told by Douglas Harold Boston The Australian side of the Boston family began when William migrated with his family to Australia in 1857. They arrived on the sailing ship “Jessie Munn”, a ship of 874 tons carrying 303 passengers, it sailed from Liverpool on 19 July and arrived in Read more
The following is an extract of Jillian Durance’s address to the November meeting of the Korumburra & District Historical Society—about the Kogwak Avenue of Hounour and its remarkable story. Thank you all for this opportunity to speak on one of my favourite topics, the Avenue of Honour in the little Read more
The following anecdotes were prepared by Doug Boston, for a talk he gave at Carinya some time ago. He focused on some of the interesting events and people that are written into our history. Post Offices There have been six sites for the post office. The first in 1890 in Read more
“Braeside” at 52 Radovick Street with its three Norfolk Island Pine trees is a landmark property in Korumburra.It was lucky to escape demolition in 1988—and what a loss that would have been to the heritage landscape of Radovick Street. By 1988 it had had four owners in the previous seven Read more
Anna was born near Lake Michigan, near the Canadian border with America, in 1890. Luigi Mioni had migrated from Italy five years before, at the age of 15. Anna and Luigi were married in the backwoods where her husband worked in the iron mines. Luigi was 23, and by the Read more
Jackie Rudd was five and a half years old when he disappeared down the Jeetho Mine shaft in 1916. He was the son of J. Rudd. The white fence marks the spot today behind the Coal Creek Motel in Korumburra. Jack Rudd’s uncle Arthur was working in the vicinity at Read more
by Bob Newton Pictured above is the former fire bell that is now located at the current Korumburra fire station. It was donated by the Coal Creek Coal Mine Company in 1896 when James Hardwick was the manager—it was surplus to their needs. After a meeting in Radovick’s Hotel, a Read more