Photo%20Collection

Sepia photograph of the first road bridge on the northern highway over the Murray River. This bridge dates from the 1920s. A new bridge was built in the late 1960s, and later the highway was re-aligned

Photo of the coconut trees at the Dunk Island resort. EJ Banfield planted a number of these and the Morris family planted several more

Photograph of the original home built by Edward Thomas Garner and his wife Edith, at Garners Beach. The beach was named after the Garner family: Edward Thomas Garner purchased his property here in 1910. Members of the Garner family are on the truck, while Mrs Shaw is at the wheel of the car. Mrs Shaw was Edward Christian Garner's mother-in-law

Black & white copy print of the original jetty at Dunk island.The jetty was built in the mid-1930s

Black & white photograph of the Pershouse home. William and Margaret Pershouse came to the Cardwell district in the late 1880s, selecting a property near the Meunga and Kennedy Creeks which they called "Glenwarn". Hilda Pershouse was one of their eight children

The Dunk Island resort commenced operation in the 1930s

Black & white original photograph of the Adelaide Steamship Company's S.S. Tully aground in Maria Creek. Crew standing on deck. The S.S. Tully was built in 1910 and was wrecked in September 1927 in the Johnstone River

The Savoy, located on Plumb Street was constructed in the early days of the township. It may have originally been the home of the Greek Club. The Irish Club met here in the 1930s, and it also provided accommodation for canecutters and itinerant workers

Photograph of the Savoy, a boarding house on Plumb Street, Tully. Originally built to house itinerant workers such as canecutters

Sepia copy of a photograph of the home of the Skardon family on Mission Beach Road, built in 1916. The first Skardons came to Cardwell in the 1880s. Fiddes and John Skardon had erected slaughteryards and a butchery on this property at Midgenoo by 1920