John Adams funeral, Drummonds Point, Gaffneys Creek
Item Number: 252
Drummonds Point, Gaffneys Creek – John Adams funeral. Looking south with the Albion Hotel in the left foreground and the old State School in the centre background in front of All Saints Church. The chimney in the right foreground is all that remained of the Colonial Bank. Drummonds Point, Gaffneys Creek. Weekly Times, October 1 1904. Looking south with the Albion Hotel in the left foreground and the old State School in the centre background in front of All Saints Church. The chimney in the right foreground is all that remained of the Colonial Bank. (The settlement located on Gaffneys Creek was initially known as Drummond’s Point, and during the 1860s it was surrounded by satellites, all within three miles – Raspberry Creek, Brummys Spur, Paradise Point and Raspberry Point.) The town today covers the areas surveyed in 1864-65, known then as Paradise Point, Drummond Point, Raspberry Point and Lauraville, it was named after Thomas Terrance (Red) Gaffney, one of the first to discover gold here, in 1860