St Clair Mission, located on the southern bank of Lake St Clair, between Muswellbrook and Singleton, was an Aboriginal mission that was established by Reverend JS White in 1893. In the late 1890s Retta Dixon, a Baptist missionary, moved to the Mission. In 1905 she formed the Aborigines Inland Mission and took formal control of St Clair. She established the Singleton Children’s Home on St Clair in the same year. St Clair operated until 1918 when it was taken over by the Aborigines Protection Board and renamed Mount Olive Reserve. The missionaries were forced out in 1920 and the reserve and the Home were closed in 1923.
From
1893
To
1923
Alternative Names
Mount Olive Reserve
Singleton Aboriginal Mission
1893 - 1923
St Clair Aboriginal Mission was located on the southern bank of Lake St Clair, north of Singleton, New South Wales (Building Partially demolished)
