Established by one of Wee Waa’s earliest settler families in 1881, Schwager’s Sawmill grew to become one of the biggest businesses in town. Before the proliferation of the automobile, horse-drawn wagons with wheels cut from Ironbark trees wound their way through the lands of the Kamillaroi peoples, hauling logs from Pilliga Forest to Schwager’s Sawmill. […]
Early settlers on Kamilaroi Country were probably unprepared for the might of the Coolibah tree. One of the hardest woods in the world, felling a Coolibah was the fastest way to blunt an axe. Undeterred, the resolute settlers pushed onwards and outwards, conquering the flood plains and transforming the fields into pasture. A member of […]
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