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Port Macquarie, sometimes shortened to Port Mac and commonly locally nicknamed Port, [2] is a coastal city on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, 390 km (242 mi) north of Sydney, and 570 km (354 mi) south of Brisbane, on the Tasman Sea coast at the mouth of the Hastings River, and the eastern end of the Oxley Highway (B56).
Toongabbie was a vitally important stage in the evolution of new settlements such as Newcastle and Port Macquarie exclusively designed as places of secondary punishment. Because of its critical role in feeding the struggling early colony by its production of wheat, maize and barley, the historical significance of Toongabbie Government Farm in ...
Town/City State/Territory Notes 1788 Sydney: New South Wales: First permanent Australian city. [1] Largest city in Australia, capital of New South Wales. 1788 Parramatta: New South Wales Second-oldest settlement in Australia. [2] Now a part of the Sydney urban area. 1788 Kingston: Norfolk Island: Island settled as part of the Colony of New ...
North Shore is a suburb of Port Macquarie, a city in New South Wales. It is located on the north side of the Hastings River. North Shore is mostly reached by ferry. The Settlement Point Ferry offers scheduled ferry services for cars to cross the 5km of water separating the North Shore from Settlement Point. [2] North Shore is a coastal and ...
The name Rollands Plains derives from Captain John Rolland, the Commandant of nearby Port Macquarie. Taken ill at sea in 1824, he sailed to Port Macquarie seeking medical attention. Medical attention of the day was not able to save him and he was interred at the Church of St Thomas Port Macquarie, [4] under construction at the time.
Hastings Historical Society Museum is a heritage-listed former retail store and now museum at 22 Clarence Street, Port Macquarie, Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1835 to 1840 by William Stokes. It is also known as Port Macquarie Historical Society Museum and Port Macquarie Museum.
1816 – Marked increase in development of convict settlement from 1816 to 1822; 1818 – Increase in trading envisaged. Macquarie Pier commenced, also other aids to navigation. Significant expansion of building program including hospital, stores, accommodation, gaol, church and windmills. 1822 – Penal settlement was moved to Port Macquarie ...
The Myer retail group was founded by Sidney Myer, who migrated from Belarus to Melbourne in 1899 after the height of Victoria's gold rush, with very little money and little knowledge of English to join his elder brother, Elcon Myer (1875–1938), who had left Russia two years earlier.