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Picture of the Lake George Mine Entrance at Captains Flat

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Upcoming events:

Public Lecture
The Clarke Gang and the establishment of half-time schools in the Jingeras
Braidwood
6pm Wednesday 8th September

Captains Flat Markets
10am-2pm
Saturday 2nd October

New sub-pages:

Historic Photos
of Captains Flat and the Lake George Mine courtesy of Terry Sweetman
and Jo Dyer
(all photos are now captioned)

Captains Flat Emergency Information leaflet
and other emergency preparedness documents

Forest Gate trail bike park

Photos of Jerangle village

Detailed guide to the drive from Queanbeyan and "Clickable" map of the main road to Captains Flat, from Queanbeyan

Links:

Carwoola Community Association's new website

Captains Flat Public School

Captains Flat Telegraph
our town's free newspaper

Captains Flat Railway Line
entry on Wikipedia

National Library of Australia archive of newspaper articles

Please submit any relevant links to the webmaster

Welcome to Captains Flat

News:
 

LOADER & WEIGHSTATION DEMOLISHED!

On Monday 19 April 2010, demolition contractors moved in and over the course of 4 days leveled the loader and weighstation, leaving only the scales. View:
 

Bungendore Mirror story here (1.4mb pdf file)

 

ABC Stateline story here

 

Canberra Times story 24/4/2010 (2mb pdf file)
 

Braidwood Times article here

 

Brisbane Courier Mail article here

 

recent photos of the Loader - judge for yourself if it was structurally unsound

 

NEW:
2010-11 Palerang Fees and Charges
and
Draft Local Environment Plan and supporting documents

 

Stoney Creek Gazette Feb-Jul 2010
See Carwoola Community Association website for August 2010 edition onwards

 

Road works near tip

 

Reports:
Palerang Heritage Study - Thematic History a report covering the western part of the shire (roughly the former Yarrowlumla Shire)

Mine Heritage Report
Prepared by Alistair Grinbergs Heritage Solutions (2mb)

A statistical snapshot of Captains Flat in 2008

 

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Photograph of the Captans Flat Miners Memorial
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