Millicent Local History Collection

Tower's History Room contains over 33,000 items have been indexed and this extensive collection of local history relating to many hundreds of events, people, places and organisations from the famous to the obscure. The aim is to encourage the retention & preservation of as many documents and photographs as
possible. The files cover the Millicent and Beachport council area, and much more.

All Council areas in the South East are represented in some way. There are 44 towns and
geographical areas under which material received can be assigned and within each of these titles 65 sub-headings, depending on what the material is. The diverse range includes agriculture
biographies, cemeteries, drainage general Information, Local Government, newspaper articles, maps & plans, railways, sport, town planning & shipwrecks to name a few.

An active group of volunteers have undertaken research, scanning of records and photographs, indexing, organisation of records and added to the comprehensive data base.