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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

George Morris ran a small resort on Orpheus Island (in the Palm Island group) before he was hired by Hugo Brassey to go to Dunk Island to run the resort there

The three sons of Peter and Ellen Flegler, photographed as boys

Photograph of “Tomboy”, the first of Jim Butler’s boats. Cargo from larger boats was offloaded at Dunk Island, then carried across to the jetty at the mouth of the Hull River before being transported by truck to Tully