Campbell Town Travel Guide
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Originally established as a military and coach staging post during the 1820s, Campbell Town was also a stopping place for convicts being moved around the island. One and a half million handmade bricks were used to build the Red Bridge, now the oldest convict-built bridge in Australia still in use on a major highway.
This historic and beautiful township is famous for its colonial architecture, its Saxon merino sheep and for the oldest continuous Agricultural Show in the Commonwealth, first held in 1838. The town was also the site of the first telephone conversation in the Southern Hemisphere in 1874.
Geographic Location
67km South-east of Launceston
Population
900
Climate
Cool temperate
Summer temperatures
9 – 23°C
Winter temperatures
1 – 12°C
Rainfall
560mm/year