The following resources have been recently acquired by MFHS. Check back here on a regular basis to see what has been added to the list.
Celetrating 150 Years of Education – Mackay Central State School 150th Anniversary 1872-2021- Memories and Mutterings
Centenary Celebrations – A Scrapbook – Proserpine Sugar Industry 1897-1997
Lanarkshire Coalminers & their Wives – Reminiscences from Coalburn & Surrounding Villages – Compiled by JIM HAMILTON
Narina 2017 – Biloela State High School Year Book
Narina 2018 – Biloela State High School Year Book
At The Crossroads – Biographies of Mia Mia – Kaaren Sephton
Angor to Zillmanton – stories of North Queensland’s deserted towns – Colin Hooper !
Mackay Region Gold Field Survey – The Writings of our Mining Pioneers – Compiled & Edited by James Moylan !
North of Capricorn – Henry Reynolds !
Paluma-The First Eighty Years 1870s-1850s-Linda Venn !
The Spanish Dreamer-Paronella Park- Dena Leighton !
Funeral Notices from Daily Mercury from November 2010 – December 2012
Journey to the Land of Opportunity an account from the diary of Charles Stevenson then aged 20 yrs
Indexed articles by historian Terry Hayes from the Daily Mercury
Winchester Downs – Beryl Neilson [About the Neilson family]
A House Well Filled – Betty Clark [Cook family]
A Nation Within A Nation [The Lucas clan in Australia]
1958 Mackay Flood – compiled by Betty Evison [Documents the stories of people in the region who remember the flood]
Mackay State High School [Centenary Anniversary 1912-2012]
Lisnaskia Workhouse – compiled by Vicky Herbert [Past, Present & hopefully Future]
The Horse Trader – A Lost Son of Halkirk, Scotland [William MacDonald story]
The Kaddatz Family in Australia 1872-2012 [Wesche Family Connections: Out of Prussia]
Roads To Riches – Lyall Ford [Development of the main road network in the Mackay District of tropical Queensland]
Cane, Coal & A Coral Coast – Mackay 150 Limited Edition [Mackay & Central Highlands History 1862-2012]