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Photograph (Item) - Black and white photograph, Bridge Over The Cumberland, c1900

  • Shows a fully laiden dray which has just crossed a small wooden white painted bridge onto a track that leads into the forest. At the rear of the dray stands a man. There are two men sitting on the bottom edge railing of the bridge. The title of the photograph is along the top edge in black ink. On the reverse of the photograph is a stamp from the Armstrong Collection at 42 Station Street in Sandringham in Victoria.

    Bridge Over the Cumberland

Historical information

An early black and white photograph of a bridge over the Cumberland Creek near Marysville in Victoria.

Significance

An early black and white photograph of a bridge over the Cumberland Creek near Marysville in Victoria.
The Cumberland Creek is in the Cumberland Valley near Cambarville which was a timber town near Marysville. 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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