Johns River

After many interviews and months of research, the Sesquicentenary History Exhibit opened on the 17th of September, 2010, after months of exhaustive research, compilation and 150 years since the first land sales in what even in 1860, was called "Johns River".

The supper room at the hall was turned into  our exhibit room, with over 50 professionally printed panels displaying the maps, plans, photographs and scanned documents  from 1860 through to the present.

Meticulously researched and compiled by the JRCPA History Chair, Daintry Gerrand from a wide variety of sources both online and offline, interviews, and piecing together the facts — in some cases for the first time — the result was a fairly comprehensive overview of life over the last 150 years in Johns River.

The exhibit was open throughout most of the events (with the exception of the Dance Party), and the comments were universally complimentary for the content and the presentation.

A Sense of Place

The exhibit outlined decade by decade what life was like for residents here pre-Settlement, through the early pioneer days, and into the first houses going up.   Excellent survey maps from the 1800s provided a fascinating insight to the village’s origins on what is now along Wharf Road, and then the early layout of the village in today’s village centre.

Segments of society were shown from the early petrol station owners, to the CWA ladies, the first Koolyangarra ceremony, through to the bridges built at Johns River through time.

NEW!  See most of our displays online now in our History Section!

The JR History Exhibit in 2010