Lake Macquarie History

Stone road in Argenton - References

1. John Maynard, "Whose Traditional Land" (essay), available here

2. Lake Macquarie City Council Community History website, available here

3. Laurie Nilsen, Lake Macquarie: Past and Present (Lake Macquarie City Council: Lake Macquarie), 1985, p11.

4. Nilsen, Past and Present, 11.

5. Nilsen, Past and Present, 11.

6. Clouten, Keith, Reids Mistake: The Story of Lake Macquarie from its Discovery Until 1890, (Griffin Press Limited: Adelaide) 1967, p83.

7. Clouten, Reids Mistake, 88.

8. TCJ, 11 June, 1870, cited in Clouten, Reids Mistake, 107.

9. Turner, John, 200 Years of Transport in the Hunter, (Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics Australia: NSW), 2005, p29.

10. Nilsen, Past and Present, 11.

11. Nilsen, Past and Present, 87.

12. Nilsen, Past and Present, 87.

13. Nilsen, Past and Present, 87.

14. Nilsen, Past and Present, 35.

15. Nilsen, Past and Present, 35.

16. Nilsen, Past and Present, 11.

17. Incitec Fertilizers Limited, "Cockle Creek Superphosphate Plant Photographic Archival Record," 2009, p13.

18. Peter Murray, Around Cockle Creek (local publication, c2012), p41.

19. Incitec Fertilizers Limited, "Cockle Creek Superphosphate Plant Photographic Archival Record", 2009, p13.

20. Nilsen, Past and Present, 11.

21. Citation from Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners Advocate, 12/8/1890, in Doreen Phillips, Ferries of Lake Macquarie, (East Lakes Historical Society Inc: Lake Macquarie), 2008, p2.

22. Nilsen, Past and Present, 11.

23. Nilsen, Past and Present, 11.

24. Turner, 200 Years of Transport in the Hunter, 46.

25. Nilsen, Past and Present, 11.

26. Umwelt Environmental Consultants, "Draft Baseline Archaeological Assessment of Main Street, Speers Point Between the Esplanade and Park Street", 2002, p11.

27. Karyn Virgin, "Unexpected Find at Argenton Archaeological Record of Inspection and Report," Umwelt Environmental and Social Consultants, 2020.

28. Kevin Hickson and Kelly Strickland, "Notification of a Relic: Corner of Watt St, Church St and Shortland Esplanade, Newcastle NSW" AMAC Archaeological Management & Consulting Group, (2016) pp13-14.

29. Kevin Hickson and Kelly Strickland, "Notification of a Relic: Corner of Watt St," p15.

30. Kevin Hickson and Kelly Strickland, "Notification of a Relic: Corner of Watt St," p15.

31. Kevin Hickson and Kelly Strickland, "Notification of a Relic: Corner of Watt St," p18.

32. Kevin Hickson and Kelly Strickland, "Notification of a Relic: Corner of Watt St," p30.

33. Kevin Hickson and Kelly Strickland, "Notification of a Relic: Corner of Watt St," p30.

34. Kevin Hickson and Kelly Strickland, "Notification of a Relic: Corner of Watt St," p14.

35. Karyn Virgin, "Unexpected Find at Argenton Archaeological Record of Inspection and Report," Umwelt Environmental and Social Consultants, 2020.

36. Kevin Hickson and Kelly Strickland, "Notification of a Relic: Corner of Watt St," pp12-19.

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