MHPS is also currently undertaking a maintenance and restoration programme on Clarks Huts at Adamsfield.  Once a prosperous osmiridium mining town, Adamsfield, located within the South West National Park is now a ghost of its former glory.  Miners and their families flocked to the area following the discovery of osmiridium in the mid 1920’s.  However, today very little remains of the infrastructure of a once thriving township with an estimated population at its peak of more than 1,000 people where families lived, worked and played thanks to the alluvial mining of osmiridium. The naturally occurring alloy was, amongst other things, used to make fountain pen nibs.

The bush settlement of Adamsfield once boasted a general store, blacksmith, post office, hospital, sly grog shops and a school of sorts. Today there is very little left to indicate that a once booming settlement ever existed. Over the past decades the wooden buildings that haven’t fallen victim to the harsh environment of the southwest or been reclaimed by the bush, have been destroyed by bushfires.

Clarks Huts were built by Norm Clark while mining at Adamsfield in the 1940’s and, apart from mining relics scattered about the bush, are the only viable links from that era. Built a short distance from the Adamsfield settlement on an elevated river bank, the huts have, fortunately, been spared from fires, floods and the elements.  Their survival is also due largely to the dedication of passionate care-takers, Rusty and Barbara Morley and Kerry & Dianne Jones who for many, many years took care of the maintenance and upkeep on the two huts.

In 2015, maintenance of the huts was handed over to the MHPS and is currently an ongoing work in progress.

These huts are managed by Tas PWS and are not open to the public.