Williamsford, Tasmania is the location of a former mining community, south of Rosebery, Tasmania and on the western lower reaches of Mount Read.
It was formerly reached by the North East Dundas Tramway a line which operated between 1896 and 1929.[1][2]
It was also the location of the Williamsford Haulage - a 2 foot gauge haulage line on the western slope of Mount Read, and the Rosebery- Williamsford Aerial Ropeway.
By the late twentieth century there were no longer inhabitants of this community.[3]
On Monday 9th of August 2010, ABC 1 News announced that this abandoned town will become the new site of a collection of conifers. These conifers have been collected over the last 15 years from a number of Southern Hemisphere countries where they are approaching extinction. The collected species of trees are considered extremely rare living examples of prehistoric conifers and the collection is considered according to those interviewed in the segment to be "the best collection in the world". Work will commence on the planting in the spring of 2010.