The first Land Grants
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S 33° 36.262 E 150° 51.416
56H E 301161 N 6279650
A sign marking the location of the first Hawkesbury land grants
Waymark Code: WMA0TN
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 10/27/2010
Views: 12
Mulgrave Place was one of the two sites of the first Hawkesbury land grants in 1794. 22 settlers were granted land here.
The name was later changed to Pitt Town Bottoms.
The location of Pitt Town was moved from the original site near the present locality of Cattai to the present town of Pitt Town in 1815 when Macquarie found that settlers complained of the distance between their farms on Pitt Town Bottoms and the town of Pitt Town to be too far.
Source: History of the first settlement of the Hawkesbury 1794 (Stubbs 1994)
Age/Event Date: 1794
Type of Historic Marker: If other (please specify)
Type of Historic Marker if other: Sign
Related Website: [Web Link]
Historic Resources.:
Pitt Town Progress Asscoiation
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