 The following information is a copy of JK Stokes data on Mount Barker as contained in her Rootsweb (Ancestory.com) Genealogy Website and has been included here with permission. No alterations or additions may be made to her information without further permission, although relevant comments and/or additions are welcome to be added at the bottom of each page. (copied July 2014) |
Legend
Refer to Map 1 for street names
| 1 | The home and printing office of Mr Waddy |
| 2 | McFarlane's original butchering business |
| 3 | Dickie Daniels' Blacksmith shop |
| 4 | First home of Roderick Murdoch McKenzie and his wife Mary (Paltridge) |
| 5 | Claremont Tea Rooms |
| 6 | site of grocery business run by Mrs McKenzie; later the site of the National Bank |
| 7 | Tinsmith shop |
| 8 | Liebings Saddlery |
| 9 | Oakfield Hotel - later Auchendarroch, the Rest Home, then Auchendarroch again |
| 10 | site of present day Millie's Bakery was once a blacksmith's shop |
| 11 | The White House - built by Thomas Stephenson |
| 12 | Chapman's feed & grain, later became Andy Callaghan's Betting shop, and later still Rossiter's boot factory |
| 13 | Greenfields shop, later bought by Mr Daw in 1884; then became a butcher shop, presently it is a land agency |
| 14 | W. Braker's house |
| 15 | Temperance Hall built as a grain store for Mr Good, Mr.W Barker used it as a house in 1865- also the site of an early home of the Paltridge family, |
| 16 | Mrs Carol's Boarding House |
| 17 | Crown Hotel, Dr Weld's house, RSL Hall |
| 18 | blacksmith's shop |
| 19 | house built by Mr Cruchett to be used as a church for Independent Congregationalists, but was never finished as a church, it later became builder Percy Gee's house |
| 20 | "The Laurels" - final home of John Dunn, now owned by the Walsh family |
| 21 | Wedd's store |
| 22 | Salem Cottages |
| 23 | Shepherdson's house and shop |
| 24 | Dunn's Mill |
| 25 | Paltridges 2nd Tannery - later Johnston Leather Company (closed in 1975) |
| 26 | Dumas' printing office - original home of "The Courier" |
| 27 | Paltridges original tannery and house |
| 28 | Crown Hotel, later the RSL Hall |
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