Histories of the Arthurs Creek District, Victoria
A collection of published and unpublished historical articles by Bruce G. Draper
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Chapters from Up The Creek

Introduction
History and Heritage in Up the Creek: Early Days in the Arthurs Creek District

Chapter 1
The Arthurs Creek Run

Chapter 2
Allwood Station

Chapter 3
John Bear on the Plenty

Chapter 4
The Batman Apple Tree

Chapter 5
Hazel Glen Run

Chapter 6
Hazel Glen – Linton – Arthurs Creek Cemetery

Chapter 7
Glen Ard Station

Chapter 8
Running Creek Station – Ardchattan

Chapter 9
Beginnings of the Whittlesea Fair and Show

Chapter 10
Horticultural Settlement at Arthurs Creek

Chapter 11
Charnwood

Chapter 12
What is in a name at Murphy’s Creek

Chapter 13
Glen Donald

Chapter 14
Waitui – the Macmillan Homestead

Chapter 15
Lobbs Hill

Chapter 16
Hazel Glen Wesleyan Church

Chapter 17
Ryders Flat Reserve

Chapter 18
Arthurs Creek Methodist Church

Chapter 19
Murder of Henry Hurst by Burke the Bushranger

Chapter 20
Hazelglen School

Chapter 21
Strathewen

Chapter 22
Arthurs Creek Mechanics Institute Hall and Free Library

Chapter 23
Arthurs Creek Fruit Growers Association

Chapter 24
Hazelglen Hall

Chapter 25
Arthurs Creek Post Office

Chapter 26
Doreen Hall and Recreation Reserve

Chapter 27
Hurst’s Bridge Memorial Park

Chapter 28
One of the mob

Chapter 29
The School Fence – a matter of perspective

Chapter 30
Local Waterways

Chapter 31
The Willows and the Running Creek at Charnwood

Chapter 32
The 1900 Bushfire at Arthurs Creek

Chapter 33
Arthurs Creek Rifle Club

Chapter 34
Boer War South Africa 1899 to 1902 – Mafeking again

Chapter 35
Boer War South Africa 1899-1902

Chapter 36
Interlude at Charnwood

Chapter 37
Bassett Family Cricket Eleven

Chapter 38
Arthurs Creek Football Club

Chapter 39
The Orchardist and his Fruit Wagon

Chapter 40
Gentle Zephyrs over Lomas

Chapter 41
John Ryder – Early Settler

Chapter 42
Boyhood Memories – James Chester Draper 1905 – 1998

Chapter 43
Early Days

Chapter 44
The Church of the Irish Martyrs

Chapter 45
Frank Dalby Davison’s Bush Diary
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