Sassafras, Tasmania

European settlement came to the Sassafras district in the 1850s.{{cite web |url=http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/182002 |title=A Short History on Latrobe with notes on Port Sorell and Sassafras Pages 43-46 |author=K.R. von STIEGLITZ (compiler) |date=23 Dec 1947 |website= |publisher=Digitised Resource Viewer |access-date=14 Nov 2018 |quote=}} The land was covered by almost impervious scrub, and it had to be cleared before farming could begin.{{cite web |url=http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AUColLawMon/1884/2.pdf |title=History of Tasmania Page 260 |author=James Fenton |author-link=James Fenton (farmer) |date=1884 |website=classic.austlii.edu.au |publisher=London—MACMILLAN & Co. |access-date=14 Nov 2018 |quote=}} An interdenominational chapel was built for Henry Rockliff and opened by Rev. Isaac Rooney on 1 January 1865.{{Cite book|title=TASMANIAN ANCESTRY|publisher=GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA [INC,]|date=June 1988|pages=58}} It was built on his own property, Skelbrook. A Wesleyan Church was opened in 1876 near there. Schooling was first conducted in a "hut", then in the chapel. The first public school was either opened in 1871 or five years after 1865. The area during this time had a blacksmith, wheelwright, bootmaker, flour mill, butcher, post office and police station. The property of Skelbrook is still owned by the Rockliff family ({{as of|2018|lc=y}}) and produces potatoes, poppies, beans, peas, broad beans, baby carrots and wheat.{{Cite web|title=Scott Rockliff: Embracing technology key to Tassie potato grower's success|url=https://ausveg.com.au/grower-profiles/scott-rockliff-embracing-technology-key-tassie-potato-growers-success/|access-date=2021-10-28|website=AUSVEG|date=9 April 2018 |language=en-AU}}

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• Kenny Kennebec, "The Big Spud"{{Cite web|date=2014-01-08|title="Big Spud" is safe|url=https://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/2010803/big-spud-is-safe/|access-date=2021-10-28|website=The Advocate|language=en-AU}}
• Sassafras Baptist Church{{Cite web|last=Find|first=Church|title=Sassafras Baptist Church {{!}} Sassafras Church Find|url=https://www.churchfind.com.au/churches/churches/tas/sassafras/sassafras-baptist-church/5408|access-date=2021-10-28|website=Church Find}}
• Nichols Poultry{{Cite web|title=Nichols Poultry|url=https://www.nicholspoultry.com.au/|access-date=2021-10-28|website=www.nicholspoultry.com.au}}

Four shielded minor roads{{cite web |url=https://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/Documents/Route%20Descriptions%20V3.6.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801112712/http://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/Documents/Route%20Descriptions%20V3.6.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2017-08-01 |title=Tasmanian Road Route Codes |author= |date=May 2017 |website= |publisher=Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water & Environment |access-date=18 Nov 2018 |quote=}} terminate at the Bass Highway in Sassafras. The C153 route (Native Plains Road) runs south from the north-western end to {{TAScity|Railton}}. The C704 route (Oppenheims Road) runs north and east from the northern extremity to {{TAScity|Harford}}, and from there provides access to many localities, including {{TAScity|Port Sorell}}. The C706 route (East Sassafras Road) runs east within Sassafras and then north to Harford, while the C713 route (Chapel Road) runs north from the centre to Harford.

• Arthur Cutts, Australian politician
• George Pullen, Australian politician
• Jeremy Rockliff, Australian politician
• Thornton Rockliffe, Australian cricketer
• Michael Adye Smith, Australian politician

• Atherosperma, commonly known as the southern sassafrases, are a family of broadleaf evergreen trees and shrubs of the Southern Hemisphere, including Tasmania.
• Other articles with references by K.R. von Stieglitz (compiler of A Short History on Latrobe with notes on Port Sorell and Sassafras)
• Carrick, Tasmania
• Exton, Tasmania
• Hagley, Tasmania
• Meander River (Tasmania)
• Michael Howe (bushranger)
• Westbury, Tasmania

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• [https://www.headsuplaunceston.com/listings/tasmanian-food-wine-conservatory// Tasmanian Food and Wine Conservatory, Sassafras]
• [https://www.wood-database.com/blackheart-sassafras// Blackheart Sassafras]

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