Point Nepean Road
In the Beginning
The Society was formed at a public meeting held in the Rye Hotel in May 2000.
The Primary School was to be rebuilt elsewhere and the community wanted to save the old building from destruction. However, the new school stayed in the same position, and the Principal and Council offered the Society the old building, which we occupied in 2003.
Since then our collection has grown steadily, all items are catalogued electronically, display cases and panels set up and one corner is set up as a schoolroom. Several books have been published and there are more on the way. The members meet ten times a year with guest speakers and treasure nights.
Six graves in the cemetery have been sealed or restored (using profits from the Rye Cemetery book ‘Amongst the Old Folks’). Garden parties, open gardens, stalls at Rye market and open days at a historic house have provided funds for our work.
Our major project was a community activity where money was raised to purchase a new school room in exchange for the Old Schoolhouse.
Numerous community events to mark Rye’s 150th anniversary of being proclaimed a town in 1861 were celebrated in 2011.
The Society was formed at a public meeting held in the Rye Hotel in May 2000.
The Primary School was to be rebuilt elsewhere and the community wanted to save the old building from destruction. However, the new school stayed in the same position, and the Principal and Council offered the Society the old building, which we occupied in 2003.
Since then our collection has grown steadily, all items are catalogued electronically, display cases and panels set up and one corner is set up as a schoolroom. Several books have been published and there are more on the way. The members meet ten times a year with guest speakers and treasure nights.
Six graves in the cemetery have been sealed or restored (using profits from the Rye Cemetery book ‘Amongst the Old Folks’). Garden parties, open gardens, stalls at Rye market and open days at a historic house have provided funds for our work.
Our major project was a community activity where money was raised to purchase a new school room in exchange for the Old Schoolhouse.
Numerous community events to mark Rye’s 150th anniversary of being proclaimed a town in 1861 were celebrated in 2011.
