Snapshot of the past - The Warragul and Drouin Gazette

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Snapshot of the past - The Warragul and Drouin Gazette

A photograph of workers, including William McNeilly (third right), felling trees and clearing land in Drouin. William McNeilly was born in 1871 as the fourth child of John and Eliza McNeilly, acknowledged as the first European settlers to take out land rights in Drouin. John was granted 320 acres of virgin forest in 1871. William was only a baby when the family arrived by bullock and wagon. The young family lived in a slab hut on their heavily t…