Braunstone is a locality south of Grafton on the Orara Way in northern New South Wales, Australia. The North Coast railway passes through, and a now-closed railway station was provided from 1915.[1]

During the 1850s, Braunstone was the site of a Native Police barracks from which numerous punitive raids upon local Aboriginal groups were conducted. The barracks were located at Police Flat near the Orara River. Officers such as Edric Norfolk Vaux Morisset and John O'Connell Bligh were stationed at the Braunstone barracks.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Braunstone station. NSWrail.net, accessed 1 September 2009.
  2. ↑ Medcalf, Rory (1993), Rivers of blood : massacres of the Northern Rivers Aborigines and their resistance to the white occupation 1838-1870 (2nd ed.), [Northern Star?], retrieved 25 July 2018
Preceding station Former Services Following station
Grafton
towards Brisbane
 North Coast Line Lanitza
towards Maitland

29°48′S 152°58′E / 29.800°S 152.967°E / -29.800; 152.967

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