Early Maitland: a wild old place, 80 miles up river
From the Maitland Mercury report:
Maitland will celebrate its bicentenary in 2018 and historians are already searching for stories and images of life in pioneer times in preparation for the event.
Early Maitland notes from 1818 tell tales of runaway convicts from Newcastle stockade, a miserable place often referred to as hell by convicts, many of whom made it to Maitland.
