Rosemary Harrigan from the Werribee District Historical Society is working hard to ensure the stories of yesteryear are not lost to history.
She recently finished transcribing a second book of letters, primarily council correspondences, from the 19th century.
It took Ms Harrigan more than five years to copy over the first volume, dating between 1865-69, and the second volume, dating between 1885-91.
Turns out, some things haven’t changed in Wyndham.
“I see so many of the issues then as the issues of today, such as fixing up roads and letters to people who didn’t pay their rates,” she said.
“It is lost forever if it is not brought into the light, so it is important the current generations and generations to come can see what happened in those early days.
“From the letter book, we now have found and documented one of the oldest trees still in Werribee.”
Two volumes remain.
