Tea Tree Chapel

Theo Sharples in her book Congregationalism In Tasmanian 1830-1977 states that in 1839 a chapel was built at Tea Tree in the Brighton District.

It was reported that missionary Rev. Joseph Beazley visited the Tea Tree area where a chapel and Sunday School had been opened in 1839. Services diminished when a new chapel at Green Ponds was opened. From 1839 funds were being raised to erect a chapel at Kempton in the Green Ponds district. With the opening of the Kempton chapel the minister could no longer conduct services at Tea Tree and with the spasmodic population the building fell into disrepair.

The Courier newspaper in 1841 reports:

... At some of his (Rev. Beazley) station chapels are being, or about to be erected : at the Tea Tree Brush, Mr. V. Griffiths (sic) has given an acre of land, and subscriptions have been raised for the erection of a chapel upon it, which is to be placed in trust for this Society.

Mr. Valentine Griffith Esquire was a man with means who owned the property Woodlands in the district of Tea Tree.

The landscape painter John Glover (1767-1849) purchased two improved farms at Tea Tree Brush in the district of Brighton. The property consisted of a convict-built house, barn, men's hut and a garden, it was called Ring Farm. A painting by Glover of the Brighton area is featured. In 1839 Ring Farm an area of 700 acres was sold by auction to Mr. Valentine Griffith Esquire for the amount of £1,400.