On this page members of the Maitland and District Historical Society are sharing their research into a variety of aspects of the history of our locality. New stories will be added as they become available.
Use search to find stories about the person, place, topic or keyword you are interested in.
The Gallery site
The history of the Maitland Regional Art Gallery site provides glimpses into European occupation and settlement in Maitland.
Macquarie’s great experiments: Patersons Plains and Wallis Plains
Governor Lachlan Macquarie created the first European settlement in the Hunter Valley outside Newcastle by providing convicts with land on which to develop farms.
Half a century ago …
In the 1890s the Maitland Mercury republished items from its early editions to describe how the area and people’s lives had changed over the years. Here a focus is on the first item in the series.
