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Sepia photograph of waterfall, with creek in the foreground. There are large boulders in the mid-ground. A dog is standing on an islet in the foreground, and a man is just visible on the extreme left. This image appears to be a cropped copy of an original photograph which is held by the National Gallery of Victoria: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/11169

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

Hand coloured photograph of the original Cardwell court and customs house, built between 1873 and 1874 on Victoria Street on the site where the police station currently stands. This double storey building was damaged by a cyclone in 1890 and eventually removed and replaced by a smaller building

Ernest Brooke and his father, Edward, farmed on the Tully River in the 1880s. Edward Reginald Brooke managed Tyson's estates before taking up land of his own. The father and son also operated a sailing boat to take their produce to Cardwell for shipment south. The Brooke family sold their interests in 1911