A little Stanley History
Ian Smith has also been delving into Stanley’s History and has come up with an interesting timeline.
Stanley – My Home Town – Stanley’s History
From GOLD to TIMBER to SPUDS to APPLES
to CHESTNUTS to Tourists and RETIREES…
Stanley’s Name – From NINE MILE to SNAKE GULLY to STANLEY
Stanley’s population
1824 2 Europeans (Hume & Hovell)
1850 1 European (a shepherd – Bowman)
1856 6,000 gold miners (about 1,000 of them Chinese)
1870 5,166 gold miners & business people (including 19 hoteliers, 3 brewers, 3 blacksmiths, 7 butchers & 1 doctor
2006 690
State School No. 550 – Stanley
Photo taken around 1875. Brick building built 1873.
Original timber National school building constructed 1858.
School classes commenced 1st September, 1858, with 47 pupils enrolled & with Thomas G. Kennan as first Head Teacher
1860 HT. Mr Henry Morriss
1864 HT Mr T. S. Dickson
1873-84 HT Mr Hector Matheson
School enrolment at Stanley
1858/47 1859/58 1860/72 1862/77 1863/95 1864/78
1868/92 1870/169 1872/134 1873/211 1876/326 1879/258
1882/230 1889/180
School enrolment at Hurdle Flat School
1862/39 1863/55 1864/42 1868/99 1870/108 1879/174
1882/171 1889/93
State School 889 Hillsborough Opened 1st March 1868 with teachers Mr John Besley & Mr Frank Vale
Hillsborough School closed 31st December 1897
Enrolment at Hillsborough State School
1870/69 1877/49
1873/58 1879/66
1882/61 1889/37