OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Merricks North: Jack Johnson

DATE1945 to 1955

MEDIAImage

COLLECTIONBalnarring and District Historical Society

REG NO.P1411

HISTORY

Merricks North: Jack Johnson.
Jack Johnson resided on the Downward property and worked as a trapper and general hano date. He with others began the custom of hanging dead foxes on a tree at the junction of Balnarring and Tubbarubba Roads, which site was later known as Foxeys Hangout. He was murdered in his cottage in the 1950s.

SUBJECTS

farmers, foxes, men

KEYWORDS

Foxeys Hangout, Merricks North, farmers, foxes Johnson, Jack, men