Transport
The 1920’s saw the arrival of the car in Mackay. Transport had always been a difficulty for people wanting to travel into Mackay from surrounding districts. Bridges were low level and subject to flooding. The Mackay Railway was completed and opened on the 10 August 1885. Locos, an engine with metal cane bins attached, (at […]
Sugar Industry
Following the exploration and discovery of the Mackay district credited to John Mackay in 1860, very little of the original land was being used for cattle grazing within 20 years of that discovery. The first ton of sugar was made at Captain Louis Hope’s sugar plantation at Ormiston, Cleveland in September 1864.’ In the early […]