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Photograph (Item) - Black and white photograph, Way to Cumberland Falls, c1900

  • Shows a scene of a forest of large trees. The title of the photograph is along the lower 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.

    Way to Cumberland Falls

Historical information

An early black and white photograph of the forest near the Cumberland Falls in Victoria.

Significance

An early black and white photograph of the forest near the Cumberland Falls in Victoria.
The 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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