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Postcard (item) - Colour tinted postcard, Victorian Stamp Market, Upper Cumberland Falls, via Marysville, Vic, 1908

  • Shows two men, one sitting and one standing, at the edge of the waterfall which is cascading down the mountain. There are a few fallen logs lying across the falls and the falls are surrounded by forest. On the reverse of the postcard is a space to write a message and an address and to place a postage stamp. The postcard is unused.

    Upper Cumberland Falls, via Marysvile, Vic.

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  • Shows two men, one sitting and one standing, at the edge of the waterfall which is cascading down the mountain. There are a few fallen logs lying across the falls and the falls are surrounded by forest. On the reverse of the postcard is a space to write a message and an address and to place a postage stamp. The postcard is unused.

Historical information

An early colour tinted photograph of the Upper Cumberland Falls near Cambarville in Victoria. This postcard was published by Victorian Stamp Market as a souvenir of Marysville.

Significance

An early colour tinted photograph of the Upper Cumberland Falls near Cambarville in Victoria. These falls are located on the Marysville-Wood's Point Road. Cambarville is notable for its giant mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) trees within the Cumberland Memorial Scenic Reserve, and relics from former sawmills and gold mining. The Big Culvert is located nearby on the Marysville - Woods Point Road, which was historically part of the Yarra Track. Cambarville was established as a timber mill town in the 1940s. Timber mill owners A Cameron and FJ Barton named Cambarville. They established the mill to salvage timber from trees destroyed in the 1939 bushfires. Cambarville was impacted by the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires and any remaining structures were destroyed.

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