Interesting Historic Sites in the Gosford/Wyong Area
Created Mar 2013, last updated Dec 2022
Sites mostly from the 1800's
Captain Arthur Phillip's landing places (1788) (Memorials are at Orana St, Green Point and at the southern end of the Rip Bridge)
James Webb's property Mullbong, at Blackwall
- the first white settler of the area (1823)
. Webb lived with an Aboriginal woman and their daughter, Charlotte Ashby, lived to 84 and was buried in 1913 in the Bradys Gully Cemetery.
Peter Hibbs' cave at Pumpkin Point (early 1800's)
Glenworth Valley (1800's)
Old Great North Road (circa 1825): Devine's Hill,
Circuit Flat Bridge
and
Clare's Bridge
Kendall's Rocks (1874)
The
Gosford fossil fish (1880's)
The 1886 Aboretum at
Strickland State Forest
The
wreck of the PS Maitland
, Bouddi National Park (1898) (also see
this report
). Geoffrey Potter from Gosford Library also recently wrote an excellent book about the wreck.
Richter's Caves (1890)
Woy Woy and Mooney Creek ochre mines (early 1900's)
Mooney Mooney Creek
Kariong hieroglyphs
(mid to late 1900's?)
The
old railway dams
at Narara.
Mount Bouddi military emplacements
(not much remains)
Railway line from old Woy Woy basalt quarry
(which is now a rubbish tip).
Great engineering works -
Woy Woy Railway Tunnel
(1880's),
Mangrove Creek Dam
(1980's),
Mooney Mooney Bridge
(1980's). See
F3 opening brochure
Unusual engravings at Little Box Head