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Pitt Town 1826

Pitt Town 1826

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[M2 811.1114/1826/1]

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Hawkesbury Benevolent Society

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Cattai Hawkesbury district Maroota Pitt Town

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South Creek

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Hawkesbury Benevolent Society

Charitable society established on 31 December 1818 to provide social welfare services in the Hawkesbury district In 1936 the Hospitals Commission of New South Wales acquired supervision of the society as a public hospital under the Public Hospitals Act 1929.

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Hawkesbury district

Area surrounding the Hawkesbury River to Sydney's north and north-west, which was important in early colonial agriculture and the site of the early towns of Richmond and Windsor.

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Pitt Town

North-western semi-rural and residential suburb, north-east of Windsor. One of the five towns named by Governor Macquarie in 1810, it has many heritage buildings.

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Cattai

North-western rural village. Its name is derived from an Aboriginal word thought to mean 'swampy land'.

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South Creek

A watercourse rising about 4 km NE of Narellan and 7 km west of Minto. It flows generally north for about 70 km until its confluence with the Hawkesbury River, near Windsor.

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Maroota

Far north-western rural suburb surrounded by state forest, south of Wisemans Ferry.

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