Surveyor General Lieutenant John Oxley Monument Mullaley, NSW
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S 31° 08.189 E 149° 54.405
55J E 777155 N 6551635
The monument commemorates the expedition of explorer John Oxley who crossed Bowen`s Rivulet (Cox`s Creek) approximately 3 kilometres southwest of this spot on the 27th August 1818 before travelling east to Port Macquarie.
Waymark Code: WM181T4
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 05/11/2023
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The monument is a brass plaque fixed to a slab of sandstone. It is protected by a steel fence/gate & sits at the base of the imposing Mullaley Mountain.
The monument is just off the Mullaley-Coolah Road.
The plaque is worded:
"On 27th August 1818 SURVEYOR GENERAL LIEWTENANT JOHN OXLEY crossed Bowen`s Rivulet (now Cox`s Creek) about 3km south-west of this point and travelled east toward Port Macquarie. He named the black soil area to the east and south-east the LIVERPOOL PLAINS.
This stone was erected to honour him and remind us of the courage of all explorers and pioneers.
May all who pass this way give a thought to
"The tracks of those vanishing horsemen.
On a path covered over by time.
Their glory all gone...
Still their echoes live on here... In the beat of my rhyme".
Erected by Tambar Springs APEX.
Stone & plaque Gunnedah Shire Council.
Citation from song by Eric Watson.
Unveiled 26-7-86 by Rachael Anne Barnes, a great great great grandaughter of John Oxley"
Age/Event Date: 27th August 1818 - unveiled 26-7-86
Type of Historic Marker: Monument
Related Website: [Web Link]
Type of Historic Marker if other: Not listed
Historic Resources.: Not listed
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