The Jews of early Lismore

Journal article

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In Journal Issue

Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 2, 1 (1944)

Author(s) L Cohen
M Phillips AbstractUntil the seventh decade of the last" century, the pastoral land round about the Richmond River was occupied by a handful of early settlers whose holdings, though extensive in area, yielded little but hides and tallow. The heavily timbered scrub country was then subdivided and thrown open for closer settlement by the Crown, but for a number of years most of the 600-acre subdivisions were exploited merely for their valuable cedar, which was floated down the creeks in flood time to deep water and thence shipped to Sydney. Tiny hamlets arose in the vicinity of the booms laid across the several arms of the river to hold up the logs, and, as the land gradually became cleared and stocked with dairy cattle, these centres grew into the nuclei of what, with the advent of refrigeration and consequent high butter production, later developed into such populous and important towns as Lismore, Casino
Year1944
Pages17-20