Mt. York Lookout, Hartley Vale, NSW, Australia
S 33° 33.144 E 150° 13.156
56H E 241826 N 6284006
This has GREAT Views, and can be seen from kilometres away! (As it is on the edge of the Mount York Lookout area, just out from Mount Victoria.)
Waymark Code: WMXBDA
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 12/21/2017
Views: 2
This Obelisk has four commemoration plaques/stones on it. One of them reads:
In Commemoration of
the First Crossing of the Blue Mountains
in 1813. A.D. by
Blaxland, Wentworth & Lawson.
This Obelisk was erected by Public Subscription
in 1900 A.D.
W.J. Berghofer
L.H. Howell Trustees
H.C. Rienits
A smaller brass plaque, that has been screwed to the base, reads:
The First Road Over the Blue Mountains
From Emuford to Bathurst, 101½ miles was formed in six months, by a working party of 28 men.
And was completed in January 1815.
The Commission to execute the work was Entrusted by Gov. Macquarie
to
William Cox Esq. JP. Lieut. 102nd Reg.
of Clarendon, Windsor,
Died 15-3-1837
Another dark plaque with gilded inscription reads:
In commemoration
of
the Life & Work of
Major General Lachlan Macquarie
Governor of New South Wales
1819 - 1821
Through whose Enterprise
The First Road across the Blue Mountains
was constructed
While the fourth black plaque on the base of the obelisk reads:
The First Road over the Blue Mountains
Laid Out by Surveyor Evans
Who followed the Explorers Track
Was Opened by
Governor Macquarie, in 1815 A.D.
The Descent begins
100 Yards NE of this Memorial
Visited: 1807, Monday, 3 October, 2016
Zoomed photo of the Obelisk taken @ 1715