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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Gentleman John Smith
John Smith, a convict who made considerable wealth from a business empire he developed in and around Maitland.
Inciting another to exhume bodies
The very strange activities of phrenologist Archibald Hamilton in mid-19th century Maitland.
Maitland’s federation connections
The links between Maitland and two of the major figures in the federation of the Australian colonies.
Pioneers on the Bolwarra flats
George and Rachel Mead, a pioneering farming couple on the Hunter floodplain at Bolwarra, and their descendants.
Church and politics
The significance of a donation by Major D’Arcy Wentworth, a staunch Anglican member of the NSW colonial elite, to the building of St John’s Catholic church in Maitland in the 1840s.