Blue Mountains, Australia, History
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Transport, infrastructure | |
Exploration | |
Administration | |
Accommodation | |
Residential, agricultural | |
Mining | |
See also Development of: Katoomba |
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18th Century |
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1788 | First European settlement in Australia established at Sydney Cove. |
1789 | Lt. William Dawes reaches a point several miles north of Faulconbridge and Linden. |
1793 | Capt. William Paterson explores up Grose River to vicinity of Wentworth Ck |
1794 | Henry Hacking followed an unknown route, probably reaching Kings Tableland. |
1794 | Governor Hunter succeeds Phillip. |
1795 | John Wilson, around this time, probably reached vicinity of Hartley. |
Matthew Everingham reached Mt Wilson. | |
1796 | George Bass followed Burragorang & Cox's Valleys, reaching a high point with a commanding view of the Kanangra Plateau. |
1798 | John Wilson explored, via Burragorang & Wollondilly Valleys, to Mt Towrang, 12km short of Goulburn. |
19th Century |
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1800 | Governor King takes command. |
1802 | Francis Barrallier reached the Bindook Plateau, and a point 2km from the Great Divide. |
1804 | George Caley reached Mt Banks, just short of Darling Causeway. |
1806 | Governor Bligh, of "Bounty" fame, appointed to replace King. |
1808 | Bligh deposed in the Rum Rebellion. Ringleaders include Blaxland & Lawson. |
1809 | Lachlan Macquarie arrives to assume governorship. |
1813 | Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth crossed the Blue Mountains. Turned back at Mt Blaxland, just short of the Great Dividing Range. |
1813 | George Evans followed the same route, continuing on to the Macquarie River near Bathurst. |
1814-15 | First road over the Mountains, and on to Bathurst, constructed by William Cox. |
1815 | Military depot established near Glenbrook Lagoon. |
Cox's "Weatherboard Hut" Store opens at Wentworth Falls. | |
1816 | Military depot moved to Springwood. |
1823 | Collitts' Inn opens in Hartley Vale |
Lawson's Long Alley supersedes Cox's Rd at Mt York. | |
Archibold Bell discovers new route. Becomes Bell's Line of Road. | |
1824 | Lapstone zig zag road (now Old Bathurst Rd) supersedes Cox's Rd. |
1825 | Barnett Levey granted 900 acres at Glenbrook; named Mount Sion. |
1827 | James' Hut opens for travellers at Woodford. |
1827 | John Mills' Weatherboard Inn offers better accommodation on 100 acres at Wentworth Falls. |
1828 | Maj. E Lockyer begins Lockyer's Pass at Mt York. Abandoned 1829. |
1830 | Pilgrim Inn opened at Mt Sion by James Evans |
1831 | Pembroke's Hut, Lawson Scotch Thistle Inn opened by Andrew Gardener on 20 acres at Blackheath Shepherd and His Flock Inn, west of Katoomba |
1832 | The Valley Inn opens in Valley Heights The Woodman's Inn opens in Woodford, becomes Buss's Inn in 1855. |
1833 | Mitchell's Pass & Lennox's Bridge become main route up Lapstone Hill. |
Victoria Pass (near Mt York) opened. | |
1835 | Stockade, became Bull's Camp in 1842. Between Linden & Woodford. |
1837 | The Late Lord Byron Inn, Blaxland |
1840 | The Blue Mountain Inn, Lawson |
1843 | Kings Arms replaces The Woodman's Inn, Woodford. |
1844 | Blackheath Stockade. Mounted Police Station and Lock-up in 1849. |
1845 | Springwood Inn opens |
Springwood Military Depot closed | |
1849 | Toll Bar & house, Linden; also Broughton's Waterhole (Mt Victoria) |
1855 | Police lock-up and mounted patrol depot, Woodford |
1857 | Toll Bar Inn, Linden |
1860+ | Kerosene shale mining commenced
in Hartley Vale. Glen Shale Mine established in Megalong Valley. |
The Engineer's Track constructed up the Grose Valley. | |
1863 | Welcome Inn opens at Mt Victoria |
1865 | Kerosene shale discovered in the Wolgan Valley |
1866 | One Tree Hill Post Office opened at Mt Victoria. |
1867 | Railway opens to Weatherboard (Wentworth Falls). |
1868 | Railway reaches Mt Victoria |
1869 | Railway reaches Bowenfels, near Lithgow, via the Great Zig Zag. |
1870 | Kerosene Inn / Meads Farm opened at Little Hartley. |
1870 | Mt Wilson - land put up for auction. |
"Everton" built at Faulconbridge by the Hon. John Meeks by
local stonemason Paddy Ryan. John Lucas MLA builds "Logi" above Lapstone Zig Zag. Geoffrey Eager MLC converts Welcome Inn to a country residence, "Wyoming". |
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1872 | "Katoomba Coal Mine" registered by John Britty North |
1875 | Eager's Platform, later Valley Heights, opened for Geoffrey Eager. |
1876 | Henry (later Sir Henry) Parkes applies for land in what would become Faulconbridge. |
Charles Moore MLA, MLC constructs "Moorecourt" at Springwood. | |
1877 | "Numantia" built by Sir James Martin, former premier of NSW, on a large property at what would become Faulconbridge. |
"Alphington" built by Sir Alfred Stephen MLC on land purchased from Sir James Martin. | |
"Metchley", followed by "Western House", built by Prof. Charles Badham on land purchased from Sir James Martin. | |
Faulconbridge Platform opened near Henry Parkes' "Faulconbridge". | |
1878 | The Imperial Hotel, said to be Australia's oldest tourist hotel, opened at Mt Victoria |
1879 | The Comet Inn, named after a brand of kerosene, opened at Hartley Vale. |
1880+ | John North began mining shale at Ruined Castle. |
1884 | The Bridle Trail (Six Foot Track) surveyed. Katoomba to Jenolan Caves. |
1886 | "Yester Grange" built by John Smith at Wentworth Falls. |
1888 | Fairfax family residence built at Mt
Victoria. Later becomes Cooper's Hotel. "Norwood" built at Blackheath |
1890 | "Lilianfels" constructed by Frederick Darley at Leura |
1892 | The Chalet built at Medlow Bath |
"Braemar" built for James Lawson Snr, at Springwood. | |
1897 | Old Mt Victoria Post Office opened. |
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