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Ruins of windmill tower on Hope Farm, Cattai c1950s

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McGarvie’s list and Aboriginal Dyarubbin

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Agriculture Industrial building Mills and windmills

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Cattai Cattai Farm Cattai National Park Hawkesbury district

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Power, Robert

Hawkesbury Library Service

The Hawkesbury Library Service comprises two branches Hawkesbury Central Library 300 George St, Windsor and the Richmond Branch Library. The Service holds a wealth of resources relating to the history of the Hawkesbury, for researchers and students.

McGarvie’s list and Aboriginal Dyarubbin

This essay follows on from Introducing the Dyarubbin Project: Aboriginal history, culture and places on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales

Industrial building

Agriculture

Mills and windmills

Cattai National Park

National park north-west of Sydney on site of Thomas Arndell's farm.

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Cattai Farm

Homestead of Thomas Arndell now part of Cattai National Park.

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Arndell's windmill

Stone mill built with convict labour for Thomas Arndell in about 1804 on his property at Cattai on the Hawkesbury River. The surviving parts of the mill and associated granary buildings are probably the oldest industrial structures in Australia. The mill is identified in McGarvie's 1829 list of place names used by the local Aboriginal people as 'Daili' which has two possible meanings: ‘eat/hungry for dry stuff’ and ‘that! that one!’.

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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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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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