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Sepia photograph of a steam train at the Cardwell station in the 1920s. The small station building is in the rear left and some tents, possibly for construction workers, are to the right. The North Coast Railway line through from Townsville to Cairns was finally officially opened in December 1924 when the Daradgee bridge over the Johnstone River was completed

Photograph of Banyan settlement which sprang up as the new railway line was constructed, and the proposed sugar mill went ahead. The new town to be named Tully was surveyed to the west of the railway on the other side of Banyan Creek

Sepia photographic postcard of shops along the main street of Banyan settlement, the forerunner of Tully, located on the east side of Banyan Creek near to the present High School

Sepia photograph of people on Victoria Street, Cardwell, on the occasion of the opening of the railway line from Townsville to Innisfail. The line was joined at Cardwell in 1924, Mrs John Hubinger performing the ceremonial driving home of the last spike

Photograph of the one of the first shops to open in the new township of Tully, 1924. Alf Jago purchased the land in the first sale of allotments in July 1924 and opened the business in December of that year. It was located on the corner of Butler and Still Streets

Photograph of Mr & Mrs HJ Barnes at the Tully Mill site, with the site of the old Tully Mill Golf Course behind them. Mr Barnes was a cane inspector. Mill workers camped along the creek that runs through the present Primary School, which later was dammed to supply water to the mill residences

Photograph of Olive and Rita Brett, aged 6 and 8, riding to school at Mrs Beattie's house. A private school was opened in Mrs. Beattie's house in 1923 which children attended before Banyan or Midgenoo provisional schools were opened

Photograph of a man seated on a plough harnessed to a team of four horses. Taken in the mid-1920s on Allison's farm, Old Tully Road, he is preparing the ground to plant sugar cane

Photograph of pupils on "parade" at Banyan Provisional School, which opened on the sugar mill site on 30 June, 1924 with 50 pupils. The teacher was Mr. Johnson. The school moved to the present site and the named changed to Tully in 1925

Sepia photograph of the view looking across Bowen Street from the railway station at Cardwell in the 1920s. The post office can be seen at the right (located on the corner of Balliol Street and the foreshore on Victoria Street)