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American Fleet visits Kiama
The Antrim Theatre was a very popular location for many community activities such as school speech a ...
Boat Harbour Pools
Boat harbour store gerringongs first post office
Brief history of Kiama council
Debutante Balls
Dry stone walls are a prominent feature of our local rural landscape. Made by hand and covering many ...
Eureka Quarry Tragedy
The countryside around the Kiama region is synonymous with dairy farming although there were many ot ...
Fire services in Kiama
Foxground was originally known as "The Flying Foxes Camping Ground". It is a scenic valley, north of ...
Fry’s cave is a deep sea cave, cut into basalt on the coast, south east of Kiama, NSW. It lies south ...
Gerringong
In February 1888 the Gerringong Co-Operative Dairy Society was formed and until it closed its doors ...
Gerringong Hotels
Gerringong Library History
Seven Mile Beach became known as the Gerringong Speedway and it was a popular outing to attend the r ...
History of Kiama Library
Photographic art was introduced to Kiama in the 1860s by travelling photographers who used the wet p ...
Some of the activities that have brought people to Kiama for their holidays over the years.
Hospital and health services
The cedar getters were the first white people in the Jamberoo Valley, coming in as early as 1810, bu ...
The Kiama Show and the Kiama Agricultural Committee has been an important feature of the Kiama and d ...
Construction of the harbour started in 1871 with the new harbour opening in 1876, five years after s ...
In March 1884, the State Government contributed £2000 towards the construction of a lighthouse at Ki ...
Kiama Post Office
Kiama Show
Kiama: a brief history
Leo O'Dwyer's 'Kiama Now & Then'
In January 1889, residents and visitors were amazed to watch Charles Jackson walk across a tightrope ...
March to freedom
The Minnamurra Falls has been a popular picnic spot since the 1870's and was known about since the e ...
The summer of 1939, artist Lloyd Rees, his wife Marjory, and son Alan, aged five, were holidaying in ...
On this day
A history of the Pilot’s Cottage at Blowhole Point, Kiama.
The Inns and pubs of the early years in the municipality were important places to meet up in the com ...
John Carson was one of the first quarrymen in the region and came to Kiama in 1855, following in his ...
Radar Station No 18 was an ‘Air Warning’ radar stations located on Saddleback Mountain, Jamberoo, an ...
In 1805 the Surveyor-General James Meehan advised the Governor that red cedar was to be found in the ...
In 1830 Robert Hoddle was given the task to open up a route from the lush pastures in the Southern H ...
The very first school opened in the Kiama District was in 1839 when Daniel Shea opened a Roman Catho ...
Shipwrecks off the coast
From the very early days of settlement, sport has played an important part in community life in the ...
In the early hours of Sunday morning, 1st October, 1899, a fire broke out that was to be the most ex ...
When listening to records just wasn’t good enough, a group of friends under the inspiration of Denni ...
The Library Fig and other trees
Theatres school of arts and halls in the kiama district
Toolijooa public school
Traffic and motor cars
Tram to Nowhere
We didn’t start the fire