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Paley Crescent
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…Paley Crescent … Named in 1886, Paley Crescent leads to Cane Point and the caravan park. Through the efforts of early settler John Anderson, Cane Point was reserved as a public park named Belmont Park.…
Marks Point: Northumberland County District scheme map: Shire of Lake Macquarie. Sheet 14 [Marks Point]. 1970
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…Media … Marks Point: Northumberland County District scheme map: Shire of Lake Macquarie. Sheet 14 [Marks Point]. 1970 … Photo Ref: 20655 … Creator: Northumberland County Council (N.S.W.)……This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0…
Belmont: Northumberland County District scheme map: Shire of Lake Macquarie, Sheet 58 [Belmont], 1955
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…This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License … Related search terms … anderson's point … belmont … belmont bay … belmont lagoon … cane point … cemetery … village bay…
History of Belmont Lagoon: 1820-1919
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…A sawmill was opened near Cardiff Point (now Green Point). … This period includes ongoing occupation of this land by First Nations people including the Awabakal as traditional custodians. Rev. L. Threlkeld was the first European settler in the area (4) (pp. 35-50).……On the 1874 Crown Plan drawn by Biden,…
Fishing the Piles
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…My parents and grandparents had moved from Killingworth around the … time I was born nearing the end of the depression, and erected small houses along with 3 other families on land alongside the lake - where the Returned Services Retirement … Home is now located at Bolton Point - and they fished the lake……The…
Forgotten place names of Lake Macquarie R-Z
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…Ramsgate … Wyee Point … A subdivision at Wyee Point in 1894 was named Ramsgate Estate.……Sugar Bay … Brightwaters … In the 1800s a sugar plantation and sugar mill were here.The climate of the lake was far from ideal for growing the cane, and after the mill was destroyed by bushfire in 1875, it was aband…
Growing up in Belmont in the early days
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…The excerpts from Ernie's memoirs Growing up in Belmont in the early days recounted below, provide a unique insight into life at Belmont during the 1950s and 60s.The complete document is available in the ephemera collection of the Community History department at Speers Point Library.……He was very…

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