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.
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The Maitland Lions Club and ‘Lionsville’
The newly-formed Maitland Lions Club performed a service to floodplain residents after the 1955 flood by developing a subdivision in an area beyond flood reach and relocating their houses to it.
Maitland: ‘Hub of the Hunter’ and ‘Capital of the North’ in the mid-1800s
For decades, Maitland was, for the north of the colony of New South Wales, the principal centre of commerce and industry apart from Sydney. It was patronised from hundreds of kilometres away.
Maitland, circa 1830
By 1830 the convict farming settlement of Wallis Plains had become a small town. Development was beginning in East Maitland and Morpeth as well, and the Hunter Valley had been opened up for commercial farming.
A village on the river: Horseshoe Bend
Horseshoe Bend, an old inner suburb of Maitland, has changed greatly over the 200 years of its existence.
East Maitland, a century ago
East Maitland in the early years of the last century looked and felt much different from the East Maitland of today, and the lifestyles of its residents were very different too.