This is the contents of Peter MacFie’s book Dulcot: A Rural Fringe Community in Tasmania’s Coal River Valley.
Dedication
Preface
Vale Peter H. MacFie
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Table of Figures
Practicalities
Maps
As It Was – Before 1811
Introduction
Chapter 01: The Petition for a Dulcot School
Chapter 02: Before the Mud School
Chapter 03: Paradise Farm, Risdon Creek
Chapter 04: The Early Colonial History of Dulcot
Chapter 05: Two Inns at Risdon Creek
Chapter 06: The Indomitable James Belbin
Chapter 07: Catherine Belbin & Her Husbands
Chapter 08: Cornthwaite Hector (1829-1839)
Chapter 09: First Hanslows at Risdon Creek 1836
Chapter 10: Richard Hanslow & Brothers
Chapter 11: The Six Hanslow Sisters
Chapter 12: Old Inns and New Policing
Chapter 13: Old Stories Uncovered
Chapter 14: Petchey’s Farm to Uplands
Chapter 15: The Kings & Keanes
Chapter 16: Jupp Sisters Marry King Brothers
Chapter 17: King of Dulcot
Chapter 18: Hanslow Sister 5
Chapter 19: Hanslow Sister 6
Chapter 20: The Farming Hanslow Brothers
Chapter 21: The Streets of Dulcot in 1855
Chapter 22: Tragedy at Summer Hill
Chapter 23: The Irish Downey Sisters Arrive (1854-1857)
Chapter 24: From Old to New Craigow
Chapter 25: Hidden Murdochs of Craigow
Chapter 26: Tensions in 19th Century Tasmania
Chapter 27: The Remembered Craigow Begins
Chapter 28: More Mud School Families
Chapter 29: Two School Families Who Moved Away
Chapter 30: The Dulcot Wanderers (1830-1914)
Chapter 31: Mud School Teachers Remembered
Chapter 32: From Boys to Men
Chapter 34: The Grass Tree Hill Sports
Chapter 35: The Federation Schoolhouse
Chapter 36: The Children of the Dulcot Schools
Chapter 37: The First World War in Dulcot
Chapter 38: The Fate of the Mud School
Chapter 39: The Federation Schoolhouse Sold
Chapter 40: The Newest Chapter for the Old School
Epilogue
Appendix 1: School Photographs
Appendix 2: Publications by the late Peter H. MacFie
Index