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6 unusual facts about Hanging Rock


DeAutremont Brothers

Ray had married while in Detroit and moved to Hanging Rock with his brother following him several months later.

Hanging Rock, New South Wales

This former gold mining town is situated about 10 km south east of Nundle.

Also that year Californians dug another water race from the swamp at the head of Dangars Gully to Nuggety Gully.

Hanging Rock, Victoria

Hanging Rock was the inspiration and setting for the novel Picnic at Hanging Rock, written by Joan Lindsay and published in 1967.

As a result of the increased interest, the deleted final chapter of the novel was finally published in 1987 as The Secret of Hanging Rock.

Hanging Rock, West Virginia

Morgan managed to remain in his saddle and escaped with neck and mouth wounds towards Fort Edwards on the Cacapon River near Capon Bridge.


Barnard River

Barnard River rises on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, near Hanging Rock, east of Nundle, and flows generally east southeast, joined by seven tributaries including the Bank and Curricabark rivers, before reaching its confluence with the Manning River, near Bretti.

Frederick Hinde Zimmerman

Zimmerman's farm, originally purchased by his grandfather Thomas S. Hinde from the federal government in 1815, included the Grand Rapids Dam, Hanging Rock, and Buttercrust.

Hoy, West Virginia

It is located southwest of Slanesville and northwest of Hanging Rock at the intersection of Offutt School Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 45/8) and Hoy Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 45/13).

Oregon Iron Company

The purchasers were led by Ernest Crichton and L. B. Seeley, experienced furnace managers from Ohio’s Hanging Rock iron region.


see also

Ironton Tanks

Other Tanks taught or coached at Hanging Rock, Pedro, Blackfork, South Point, Chesapeake, Coal Grove, Proctorville, Rome and Raceland.

Joan Lindsay

Lindsay based Appleyard College, the setting for the novel, on the school that she had attended, Clyde Girls Grammar School (Clyde School), at East St Kilda, Melbourne—which, incidentally, in 1919 was transferred to Woodend, Victoria, in the immediate vicinity of Hanging Rock itself.