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Forgotten place names of Lake Macquarie J-Q
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…North Head … Blacksmiths … The head at the entrance to Lake Macquarie at Blacksmiths is called North Head. … O'Donnelltown … West Wallsend … An area at the foot of Mt Sugarloaf at West Wallsend. Acess is via O'Donnelltown Road.……North Head … Blacksmiths … The head at the entrance to Lake Macquarie at Blacksmiths…
How We Grew - the 1880s
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…Wyee became a railway construction depot, and quarries were established at Teralba to provide the ballast needed for the tracks.……Wyee became a railway construction depot, and quarries were established at Teralba to provide the ballast needed for the tracks.…
Swansea
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…Near the site of Reids Mistake (Swansea Heads), Biraban, a respected Awabakal elder, translated the following legend into English to local missionary Reverend Threlkeld in the 1830s. Two upright petrified ocks, standing 274 centimetres high in 1840, graced the entrance of Swansea Heads.……Near the site…

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