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Peter MacFie, Historian

Working Tasmania

Coachbuilding

Coachbuilding and related crafts in Tasmania.

Brewing & Distilling

**The Derwent Distillery and Artillery Brewery, Hobart Rivulet
James Hackett’s Hobart Distillery
Inns and Hotels of Richmond

Forestry

Australian Newsprint Mills:

**A Florentine Slice….. from Canada!’,

**Maydena, the Rise & Fall of a Logging Town

Misleading Maps? THE WHA Extension In The Styx Valley and Florentine Valley 2013

**Something More than Coercion – Government Sawing Stations of North West Bay, Birch’s Bay and Port Arthur, Tasman Peninsula, 1818-1832.

Valley Farm & Saw-mill:

Industrial

The First Cement Works & Brickfields Industrial Site, Maria Island, Tasmania (1888-92)

Mining

The Iron Cliff Mines, Ferndene Reserve, Penguin.

A History of Schouten Island

Whaling

A History of Schouten Island