St Helena Fire Trail

[Vern]

So as my luck would have it I managed to get a chance to go 4WD along the Oaks and St Helena Fire Trails and toward the end of the St Helena trail it broke off to the left and we followed it down. It headed toward an area that seemed as if it had at one stage been inhabited. It opened up into grassy area with blackberry bushes and a series of creeks feeding onto each other. When we looked at the phone map it had us situated dead centre in an area where it said St Helena. I was wondering if anyone had any idea about the history of this place and if it was a homestead at one stage or why the track is called St Helena?

[Allchin09]

Resources here:

viewtopic.php?f=36&t=17370&p=231912&hilit=St+Helena#p231912

viewtopic.php?f=47&t=7053&p=89825&hilit=St+Helena#p89825

Some information from a no longer active website - http://web.archive.org/web/201108222011 ... ticle.html

[tom_brennan]

There's a chapter on St Helena Crater in Bruce Cameron's recent edition of A History of the Blue Labyrinth. Worth a read.