The terms of the 1987 grant required a tribute to the old tramway which once crossed the site carrying logs from the forest to the Woolgoolga jetty. Prof Yeates obtained the grant and Bill Lloyd, Ron Rediger, Jim Limbert and Noel Backman executed it.
The turpentine log was felled in the Barcoongere State Forest and brought to the old Ossie Hall Mill [south side of Woolgoolga] by forestry workers. The trolley and shackles came from the Coffs Shire Council and were originally used on the Coffs Jetty.
Ron Rediger [who was special foreman with the Forestry Department for the area from Wooli Road to South Bonville and out to Ulong] remembered the zeal of the council workers sent to clean up the site, They pulled out all the old stumps of the tramway and then had to put them back when it was explained that they were of great historic value.
The log on the trolley and part of the old tram line, is able to be viewed at the Woolgoolga Art Gallery. The Woolgoolga Heritage Walk includes the tramway and log.
HISTORIC TRAMWAY