Bushranger George Clarke apprehended for cattle stealing
1831
Sir Thomas Mitchell entered the Peel Valley by the old stock route through the Peel Range. He met Joseph Brown at 'Woolomin', camped at Goora (Somerton) and crossed the' Nammoy' (Namoi)
Shearing commenced at Peel River. Before this facilities were not set up at the Peel and the sheep were driven along the track known as the Peel Line to Port Stephens.
1837
Crown Lands Commissioner Alexander Paterson. Headquarters at Jerry's Plains
1838
The Australian Agricultural Company imported 30 mules and 12 drivers from Valparaiso. They were used to take wool to Port Stephens
Border Police establishment removed from quarters on the Peel River to Tamworth
1848
John Campbell appointed Chief Constable at Tamworth Bushrangers Roach and Gregory captured near Tamworth
1851
Gold discovered on Swamp Oak Creek by Buchanan and Lucas on a grazing run leased by Nathaniel Burrows a former convict who arrived on the Florentia in 1828
Nathan Cohen established a soap and candle factory Tamworth
Notes and Links
Oakenville Creek 1854 The illustration represents a scene of very frequent occurrence at these diggings. A stray clergyman is performing divine service in the open air to an attentive audience, among which may be perceived a sprinkling of native blacks. While the parson is perhaps settling dialectically some knotty point of controversy, two men in tile back ground are settling pugilistically some old quarrel or disputed claim. For such affairs, indeed, Sunday is set apart as the regular settling day- especially during the absence of the efficient Commissioner, Mr. King.