Lismore
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    • Discovery Trail
    • Grimwade Park and pool
    • Lions' Club caravan park
    • Dorothy's Vintage Gown museum
  • History
    • Brief History
    • early streets
    • Place Names
    • Haunted gully
    • L.Tooliorook eBook
    • Soldier memorials
      • Memorials, settlements
    • Lives Lived
      • John Worrall 1925-2016
      • Roy Drake 1922 - 2015
      • Otto Gramms 1927-2016
      • Doug McLeod 1928-2013
      • Johnny Borysenko 1919 - 1924
      • Colin Bourke 1936-2021
      • Francis Baker 1913 - 1981
      • Brian Mitchell 1934 - 2022
      • Tony Street 1926 - 2022
      • Thornton "Tinny" Grimwade 1897 - 1982
    • Cemetery
  • Weather
    • Current weather
    • Coming weather
    • Past weather
  • Business
    • Lismore hotel
    • Malcolm Marks, Horse shoer
    • BP Servo
    • Derrinallum Hotel Motel
    • Wooltrack store
    • Lismore pharmacy
    • Fairway Coffee and Eatery
    • Western Roadside
    • Business3
  • Photo albums
    • Early photos
    • Recent past events
  • Community Groups
    • Facebook Groups
    • Progress Association
      • Lismore Community Plan 2023
    • Lismore Land Protection Group
    • Murnong Indigenous Garden Inc.
    • DLCA History Group
      • History events to come
      • History events past
      • Items for sale
      • Collections
    • Men's Shed
      • Projects completed
      • Items for sale
    • Photography Group
    • CFA Brigade
      • Fire incident links
      • Local fire maps
      • View stubble burns.
      • Stubble permit application.
    • Craft Group
    • Lake Tooliorook angling club
  • Government, Utilities
    • Shire
      • Highway underpass
      • VEC Wards submission
      • Bin collecion days
    • SW Health
      • COVID-19
      • Defibrillator
    • Library Derrinallum.
    • Lismore Police
      • Emergency Response
      • Other Issues
    • State, Federal politicians
    • Renewable Energy Zones
    • Wind farms
  • Notice board
    • Emergencies, times
    • Newsletters, media
      • Lismore News
      • Lismore eNews
  • Nature notes
    • Lismore geology
    • Meteorites
    • Frogs
    • Dying cyprus
    • Birds
    • Surveys of Nature
  • Useful links
    • Providence Gold and Minerals
    • Census results
    • Gathering Trail
  • Contact us, search
  • Welcome!
  • coming events
  • Tourism
    • I Love Lismore
      • Postcard Art Event
    • Places to stay
    • Things to do
    • Places to see
    • Water tower art
    • Lake Tooliorook
    • Murnong Indigenous Garden Inc.
    • Discovery Trail
    • Grimwade Park and pool
    • Lions' Club caravan park
    • Dorothy's Vintage Gown museum
  • History
    • Brief History
    • early streets
    • Place Names
    • Haunted gully
    • L.Tooliorook eBook
    • Soldier memorials
      • Memorials, settlements
    • Lives Lived
      • John Worrall 1925-2016
      • Roy Drake 1922 - 2015
      • Otto Gramms 1927-2016
      • Doug McLeod 1928-2013
      • Johnny Borysenko 1919 - 1924
      • Colin Bourke 1936-2021
      • Francis Baker 1913 - 1981
      • Brian Mitchell 1934 - 2022
      • Tony Street 1926 - 2022
      • Thornton "Tinny" Grimwade 1897 - 1982
    • Cemetery
  • Weather
    • Current weather
    • Coming weather
    • Past weather
  • Business
    • Lismore hotel
    • Malcolm Marks, Horse shoer
    • BP Servo
    • Derrinallum Hotel Motel
    • Wooltrack store
    • Lismore pharmacy
    • Fairway Coffee and Eatery
    • Western Roadside
    • Business3
  • Photo albums
    • Early photos
    • Recent past events
  • Community Groups
    • Facebook Groups
    • Progress Association
      • Lismore Community Plan 2023
    • Lismore Land Protection Group
    • Murnong Indigenous Garden Inc.
    • DLCA History Group
      • History events to come
      • History events past
      • Items for sale
      • Collections
    • Men's Shed
      • Projects completed
      • Items for sale
    • Photography Group
    • CFA Brigade
      • Fire incident links
      • Local fire maps
      • View stubble burns.
      • Stubble permit application.
    • Craft Group
    • Lake Tooliorook angling club
  • Government, Utilities
    • Shire
      • Highway underpass
      • VEC Wards submission
      • Bin collecion days
    • SW Health
      • COVID-19
      • Defibrillator
    • Library Derrinallum.
    • Lismore Police
      • Emergency Response
      • Other Issues
    • State, Federal politicians
    • Renewable Energy Zones
    • Wind farms
  • Notice board
    • Emergencies, times
    • Newsletters, media
      • Lismore News
      • Lismore eNews
  • Nature notes
    • Lismore geology
    • Meteorites
    • Frogs
    • Dying cyprus
    • Birds
    • Surveys of Nature
  • Useful links
    • Providence Gold and Minerals
    • Census results
    • Gathering Trail
  • Contact us, search

History.

Picture
Lismore in 1914
The DLCA History Group has a trove of information about the district.
Visit their centre in Derrinallum (Fridays 1pm to 4pm) or their web page.

In the township;

Browse the map and stories here to see the history of Lismore back through time.
At the bottom of this page is an interesting article about the Historic Precinct.

Explore the photo galleries of early Lismore township, sporting groups and farming.

Click here for Corangamite Heritage Study 2013. (It takes a while to download as a .PDF file)
This includes a history of early Lismore and gives interesting architectural details of many of the early buildings which still exist.
Buildings of interest in Lismore are listed in Volume 2, pages 34 to 37.
Derrinallum, pages 27 to 34.
Lismore historic precinct, pages 248 to 262. 

Around Lismore:

Read "a brief history of Lismore" and "the story of the Haunted Gully" between Lismore and Derrinallum.

Read the eBook "Lake Tooliorook and its Surrounds"

Discover the WW1 and WW2 soldier settlement areas around Lismore and Derrinallum.

Read about the wildfires which decimated the district in 1944 and 1977. and see a map.

Lismore Cemetery has many photos and records to explore.


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  • Welcome!
  • coming events
  • Tourism
    • I Love Lismore
      • Postcard Art Event
    • Places to stay
    • Things to do
    • Places to see
    • Water tower art
    • Lake Tooliorook
    • Murnong Indigenous Garden Inc.
    • Discovery Trail
    • Grimwade Park and pool
    • Lions' Club caravan park
    • Dorothy's Vintage Gown museum
  • History
    • Brief History
    • early streets
    • Place Names
    • Haunted gully
    • L.Tooliorook eBook
    • Soldier memorials
      • Memorials, settlements
    • Lives Lived
      • John Worrall 1925-2016
      • Roy Drake 1922 - 2015
      • Otto Gramms 1927-2016
      • Doug McLeod 1928-2013
      • Johnny Borysenko 1919 - 1924
      • Colin Bourke 1936-2021
      • Francis Baker 1913 - 1981
      • Brian Mitchell 1934 - 2022
      • Tony Street 1926 - 2022
      • Thornton "Tinny" Grimwade 1897 - 1982
    • Cemetery
  • Weather
    • Current weather
    • Coming weather
    • Past weather
  • Business
    • Lismore hotel
    • Malcolm Marks, Horse shoer
    • BP Servo
    • Derrinallum Hotel Motel
    • Wooltrack store
    • Lismore pharmacy
    • Fairway Coffee and Eatery
    • Western Roadside
    • Business3
  • Photo albums
    • Early photos
    • Recent past events
  • Community Groups
    • Facebook Groups
    • Progress Association
      • Lismore Community Plan 2023
    • Lismore Land Protection Group
    • Murnong Indigenous Garden Inc.
    • DLCA History Group
      • History events to come
      • History events past
      • Items for sale
      • Collections
    • Men's Shed
      • Projects completed
      • Items for sale
    • Photography Group
    • CFA Brigade
      • Fire incident links
      • Local fire maps
      • View stubble burns.
      • Stubble permit application.
    • Craft Group
    • Lake Tooliorook angling club
  • Government, Utilities
    • Shire
      • Highway underpass
      • VEC Wards submission
      • Bin collecion days
    • SW Health
      • COVID-19
      • Defibrillator
    • Library Derrinallum.
    • Lismore Police
      • Emergency Response
      • Other Issues
    • State, Federal politicians
    • Renewable Energy Zones
    • Wind farms
  • Notice board
    • Emergencies, times
    • Newsletters, media
      • Lismore News
      • Lismore eNews
  • Nature notes
    • Lismore geology
    • Meteorites
    • Frogs
    • Dying cyprus
    • Birds
    • Surveys of Nature
  • Useful links
    • Providence Gold and Minerals
    • Census results
    • Gathering Trail
  • Contact us, search