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Photograph of the Tully River rail bridge under construction. The Feluga - Cardwell section of the north coast railway line (which includes the rail bridge) was officially opened on 10 December 1924. Prior to this over 450 men were employed on the construction. A camp for workers can be seen on the bank of the river

Photograph of the tramway bridge over Banyan Creek which served the Tully Sugar Mill. The sugar mill was constructed on the bank of Banyan Creek, and completed in 1925

The two women are wearing the Queensland Railways Dining Car uniforms; the man on the left is an off duty conductor; the man second from right is also a conductor (in uniform)

Black and white photograph of the memorial to Percy Pease, located on the Kirrama Range Road local State Member of Parliament. He was commemorated because of his interest in the Cardwell area of his electorate of Herbert between 1920 and 1940, and his support for many projects here

William Alcock Tully emigrated from Ireland to Tasmania in 1847. He worked as a surveyor and moved to Queensland in 1861. He was one of the first party to land at Rockingham Bay in 1864 to establish the new town of Cardwell. The Tully River was named after him, and the town of Tully was named after the river in 1924

Black and white copy print of four canecutters working in the Mena Creek area before 1920. They each have a short handled cane knife

Tully State School pupils group photograph: Grade 1, 1941

Photograph showing the El Arish Hotel in the 1930s. Passing the hotel is a procession of decorated floats and vehicles as well as horses being ridden. A crowd watches from the street in front of the hotel. The occasion for the parade is not recorded

Black and white copy photograph of Freeman Lawrence's bullock team at Cardwell. When Walter Scott died at the Valley of Lagoons in 1890 his family in England sent out a granite cross to mark his grave. The large monument could not be transported by this bullock team up the difficult Cardwell Range route and remained in the township

Photograph of a sugar-cane locomotive hauling bins full of cut cane across the tramway bridge over Hogan's Creek. The tramway line linked the El Arish canefields with the Tully Sugar Mill