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Richmond River Historical Society is based in the city of Lismore, centre of the Richmond River region of northern New South Wales. The Society’s mission is to collect, preserve, display and disseminate historical material relevant to the continuing history of North-Eastern NSW. Whether you are interested in visiting our Museum, researching your family history, discovering an aspect of local history, or becoming a member or volunteer with the Society, we trust you will find what you are looking for on this website.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

We acknowledge the Widjabal-Waibal people of the Bundjalung Nation as the traditional custodians and pay our respects to elders past and present.

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Almost 900 online signatures and more than 100 through our Pop UP Shop in Molesworth Street over 3 days!!! Wow, thank you everyone. Keep sharing,

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1 day 14 hours ago

Join Adele Wessell for this wonderful opportunity to collect and preserve your own history, including how to digitise paper documents. Goonellabah library 4 March, 10-11am.

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Did you know that the 2017 and 2022 flood waters did not enter our top floor of the Municipal Building. 2022 came within 1 metre

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Wow, People Power!!! 713 online signatures and over 100 paper based so far in 3 days!! Please keep signing, sharing and writing to the decision

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5 days 6 hours ago

Big shout out to our newest top fans! 💎
You are gems who support us all the way!!

Lyndall Smith, John James Maloney

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5 days 9 hours ago

Lots of shocked and dismayed locals visiting our Popup today to sign our petition. We are asking Council to reverse their decision to rescind our

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6 days 11 hours ago

A few photos of our marvellous Lismore Museum and the hard work of the community to restore it to the Old Municipal building.

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6 days 12 hours ago

Those were the days when the Council appreciated the Museum.

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1 week 7 hours ago

Please join with us to save our Museum.

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1 week 14 hours ago

We Shall Not Be Moved - a great anthem!!