Mareeba Historical Society

Due to the public interest shown in the Society's World War One photographic displays, for which the group won the local Australia Day Community Award, it was decided to have a collation of all four displays so that people could have more time to view it all.  The last few months had been very busy for the Society with an invition from the Council to attend the unveiling of plaques commemorating local pioneer families and an invite to the presentation of the land to the Mareeba Heritage Centre.  Members also attended a presentation evening of the Bendigo Bank Community sponsorship to receive a $250 grant to purchase archival lever arch storage boxs.  The group has been fortunate to have a university student come in to help with the library database while they were on their holidays.  It was also decided to begin planing for a future project to scan the vast number of mining history documents that the Society hold.  These are at least an hundred years old and great care will need to be taken and once digitalized, they will be correctly conserved.  On a sad note, news came of the recent passing of Mr Eddie Sheerans who was a past President of the Society, condolences to the Sheerans family.