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Tacking Point A headland point on the North Coast between Lighthouse Beach Gazetted: 6 Apr 1973 and Miners Beach. It is about 4km SSE of the town of . Origins: Named by Matthew Flinders as the point at which he tacked (changed direction) in his vessel, The Investigator, in 1802.

Tacking Point Road Port Macquarie. In the 1880s this started at Smiths Bridge near Hill Street, up Lord St and Swift St. to Sunnyside Crescent and then joined Lovers Walk (Pacific Drive). Leads to Tacking Point.

Tall Timbers Station east of the Pacific Highway at Telegraph Point

Tall Trees Farm west of Bellangry Road north of Frazers Creek Road 4kms north of Beechwood.

Tallawalla Station on Bellangry Road 6km S of Bellangry.

Tallowwood Road In the Burrawan State Forest west of .

Tan Yard John Dick’s land SW corner of Horton and Gordon Streets once a tan yard. On sale 28 Jul 1882.

Tanks On Limeburners Creek - (see Fishing notes PMN, 16 Jan 1909).

Tarcoola Property on the Maria about 2km from the river mouth near Boomerang Island. A coastal steamer of the same name. Also name of a local racehorse.

Target Hill The hill on which the flagstaff stood near Oxley Beach at Port Macquarie.

Tariel Farm off Costigan's Road 6km south of Yarras.

Tarmac Farm on the Lorne-Comboyne Road 3km west of Lorne.

Tarrawonga Station 3km W of Telegraph Point on the Rollands Plains Road.

Taylors Gully A partly perennial creek about 3km long. It rises 4600 metres Gazetted: 14 Feb 1969 from junction of and Forbes River and flows generally NE into Hastings River. Previous name Taylors Creek.

Tea Kettle Creek A partly perennial stream rising about 0.75km S of Innes View. It Gazetted: 10 Jan 1969 flows generally west by north for about 5km into the . Teamsters Camping Morton’s Creek area - P.J. Parker applied for it - Progress Reserve Committee 16 Feb 1883.

Telegraph A trig. station located on Allen Hill, about 5km SW by S of Gazetted: 4 Dec 1987 Cooperabung Hill and overlooking the town of Telegraph Point.

Telegraph Point A town locality about 5 km SSW of Cooperabung Hill north of Port Gazetted: 16 Apr 1993 Macquarie and about 2 km SW of Dalhunty Island. Origin: Named after the telegraph line that ran between Port Macquarie and Kempsey crossing the river at that point. The town grew after the railway extended north between 1915 and 1916.

Telegraph Point Located on Pacific Highway, it was opened 9 April 1902. (Source: Bridge People and Places, Vol.3, p.31.)

Telegraph Point A rail station at Telegraph Point on the Wauchope to Kempsey Railway Station Line, opened 3rd December, 1917 and closed 25th Feb 1983. Gazetted: 4 Dec 1987

Telegraph Rock A rock which lies 274m E of Perpendicular Point at the mouth of Gazetted: 23 Feb 1973 the River.

Temperance Hall Building located in Port Macquarie in Horton Street.

Ten Mile Creek See Sapling Creek.

Tenterden Property at Guyra. Once owned by Mr Charles Mackenzie [1866- 1947] (see PMN, 14 March 1947, p.1). Possibly also a property near Thrumster.

Terabulla Farm at the end of “The Old Coach Road” 3km W of Batar near Kendall.

Terrabanella Farm on Rowley’s Road Bulga State Forest area.

Terrabanella Creek Runs into Long Creek Rowley’s Road area Bulga State Forest.

Terrabanella Top Hill in the Bulga State Forest.

Terrimiah Creek A watercourse about 4km long. It rises about 4 km SSE of Ralfes Gazetted: 14 Nov 1980 Peak and flows generally East into an unnamed watercourse.

Thatcher Street Wauchope. A local mill owner.

The Angle Station on the Ellenborough River 15km SW of Ellenborough off Toms Creek Road.

The Bells Farm off Batar Road 4km SW of Batar near Kendall.

The Cedars Station 1km SE of Bellangry and east of Bellangry Road. The Cedars Road Road SE of Bellangry and east of Bellangry Road. The road leading to the property known as "The Cedars".

The Cells A mine located in the upper Hastings.

The Chicken Farm Station west of the Pacific Highway 3km NE of Telegraph Point.

The Cottage Property 3km NW of Beechwood on the southern side of Frazers Creek.

The Crescent The strip of waterfront land from Hay Street to Kooloonbung Creek Port Macquarie in the early years before Capt. Wright’s new alignment of the streets of the town.

The Glen Property of J.H.Paterson Long Flat. (see PMN, 7.1.1899)

The Gorge Small creek originating in Werrikimbe State Forest NW of Mt. Seaview and running E into the Hastings River N of Mt. Seaview.

The Grange House built by A.B. Butler at The Glebe (Kooloonbung Creek). Purchased by Arthur Bartrim in 1921.

The Governors Way A major canal located between Newport and Commodore Gazetted: 28 Aug 1992 Crescents.

The Hatch A locality about 3km E of Roberts Plain locality and about 4 km S Gazetted: 16 Apr 1993 by E of Hacks Ferry locality. Property owned by Wallace Bros. 1888-93 Thomas, and property of T. Wallace in 1896.

The Haven Station 1km west of Telegraph Point on the Rollands Plains Road.

The Homestead Home of James Blair - Lot 1 S 43 The Glebe Port Macquarie. (See Advertisment in PMN, 2 Dec 1922): - 100 fruit trees for sale.

The Hut Home of J.L. Ruthven after he had returned to Port Macquarie about 1916.

The Island Station at the southern end of Torrens Island near Hacks Ferry.

The John Downes Reserve. (see John Downes Park). Remembrance Park Gazetted: 4 Dec 1987

The Knot Station 15km SW of Ellenborough off Toms Creek Road. The Laurels Station 1km SE of Rollands Plains east of the Rollands Plains Road. Property of George Herbert, Rollands Plains. (see PMN, 27 May 1922).

The Meadow Port Macquarie. Name for the meadow-like appearance of the surrounding area.

The Mile Road West of the Pacific Highway in Cowarra State Forest.

The Moorings Home of Mr. Holley Port Macquarie (see PMN, 31 Jan 1925).

The Neck Upper Limeburners Creek district (See Fishing Notes PMN, 16 Jan 1909)

The New Inn Port Macquarie. The first hotel in the town on the waterfront near the wharf at the end of Hay Street. Stephen Partridge the first Superintendent of Convicts in the settlement was granted the licence on 27 Aug 1830.

The Oaks A waterside rural locality about 2km NW by W of North Haven Gazetted: 16 Apr 1993 and about 2 km NE of West Haven. Property of Frank Heaps, (See PMN, 11 Mar 1922).

The Old Coach Batar Creek. Runs south of Batar. So named as in the past, this Road road provided the main coach route from to Port Macquarie.

The Paddock Road Runs south from the opposite Colonels hill about 5km west of Wauchope.

The Park Station 1km west of Telegraph Point on the Rollands Plains Road.

The Pines Farm near .

The Pioneer Tin mine at Gundle 1896 - Chubb was the manager then John Hibbard Snr. His granddaughter named it. (see PMN, 23 Jul 1896)

The Retreat Farm on the Wauchope-Comboyne Road, 5km W of Wauchope.

The Rollover A rural locality on the Broken Bago Range at the head of the Gazetted: 16 Apr 1993 watercourse, Herons Creek. Located about 11 km NW of the town of Herons Creek. Previous name The Roll Over

The Ruins Way Port Macquarie - the road leading to the ruins of Major A.C. Innes’ Lake Cottage at Lake Innes; built circa 1830. Now entry point to Innes Lake Estate

The Scrub Road Runs south off the Oxley Highway 6km W of Wauchope. The Selection A property at Blackman's Point belonging to Horace Eggert in 1905. (see People and Places, Vol.3, p.33 & p.34).

The Travellers Rest Home located at Long Flat belong to the Henry Family.

The Willows Property west of Kundabung on Smiths-Ballengarra Road 6kms west of the Pacific Highway.

Thelron Farm on Tobins Creek Road 3km S of Ellenborough.

Third Avenue Bonny Hills - the third avenue created there.

Thompsons Flat Upper Rollands Plains.

Thone Creek Located at Gannon's Creek. Daniel William was here in 1894. (see PMN, 3 Oct 1894, p.6).

Thone River A perennial stream rising about 2.5km E of . It Gazetted: 10 Jan 1969 flows generally NNE for about 32.1 km into the Hastings River. An old English or Scots word meaning damp, wet or moist.

Thoorura Farm on Bulli Creek 2km south of Byabarra.

Three Brothers The three mountains S of Port Macquarie near Laurieton North Brother, Middle Brother & South Brother. Aboriginal name “Birrooguns”

Thrumster A locality about 10km by road WSW of the town of Port Gazetted: 16 Apr 1993 Macquarie. Origins: Property of Major Innes on the Oxley Highway just to the west of Port Macquarie on the Oxley Highway 1878-79. Named after the ancestral home of the Innes family in Caithness, Scotland. Should be Thrumpster after the original Scots spelling. J.Y. Butler was there in 1894 -“the house is too near the New England road but there is a good garden”. Mr and Mrs Taylor used to live there (before Major Innes) but they went to Valley in the New England district. Now Sovereign Hills locality.

Thrumster Street Port Macquarie. Named after the ancestral home of the Innes family in Caithness Scotland.

Thurlings Road In the Cairncross area running north from Rawdon Creek near Tommy Owens Creek west of the Pacific

Tibaroo see Tibaroo.

Tilbaroo Ellenborough. Andrew Brothers sold the property to the Hill Brothers in 1903. (see PMN, 17 Oct 1903).

Tilbaroo Crossing Road Junction Toms Creek/Toms Creek Road. Tilbuster Property on the south bank of the Wilson River at Upper Rollands Plains owned by Major Innes. Originally part of the marriage settlement of some 1,280 acres in the 1830s to Mrs Margaret Innes. The area was earlier known as Crottys Plains until Mrs Innes renamed it Tilbruster, after the country home in Surrey, England of her youth. (See Estate Names - Port macquarie and Hastings Region. Dawson, 2014)

Tim and Jacks Cutting on the Oxley Highway 10km W of Wauchope between Culvert Huntingdon Public School and Lindsay’s Hill.

Timber Ridge Port Macquarie - named after the fine timbered ridge in the area much of which has been preserved.

Timberline Farm on the Oxley Highway 1km E of Thrumster Park adjacent to Tenterden.

Tin Bridge Park Station west of the railway about 6km SW of Telegraph Point.

Tinebank A parish (lands administrative division). Gazetted: 6 Apr 1973

Tinebank Creek A non -perennial stream rising about 10.5km SE of Boss trig. Gazetted: 10 Jan 1969 station. It flows generally SW for about 3.2km into the Wilson River.

Tinebank Flora A reserve within Kippara State Forest about 10km WNW of Upper Reserve Gazetted: 11 Rollands Plains and about 1km S of Tinebank Mountain. Apr 2003

Tinebank Mountain A mountain about 7km SW of Gearys Mountain and about 4km Gazetted: 29 Jun 1970 SSW of Tuckybunyubah Mountain. At the western end of the Wilson River NW of Upper Rollands Plains near Geary’s Flat.

Tipperary Property 8km NW of Lorne. Farm on Tipperary Road, Swans Crossing area.

Tipperary Road Swans Crossing area.

Tippin Hill Bain Bridge area.

Tirrill Creek Located in the Doyle's River area. A perennial stream rising about Gazetted: 10 Jan 1969 8 km SW of Ralfes Peak trig station. It flows generally SW for about 19.3km into Rowleys River.

Tobin A parish (lands administrative division). Gazetted: 10 Jan 1968

Tobin A minor trig station about 0.8km SW of Oxley Trig Station, and Gazetted: 14 Feb 1969 about 4.8km NW of Sheep Station trig. station. Tobins Camp A rural locality at the junction of the Oxley Highway and Stockyard Gazetted: 16 Apr 1993 Creek Rd about 2km SE of the village of Mount Seaview. Origins: Believed to have been known as Toby’s water hole at first, from an old Aboriginal man named Toby who dammed the water for his people. Then changed to Toby’s camping place.

Tobins Creek (1) Runs east into the Hastings River near Mt. Seaview. (2) Farm on Tobins River near Mt. Seaview.

Tobins River In the Yarrowitch area north of the Oxley Highway.

Tobins Road In the Yarrowitch area.

Tommy Owens A watercourse about 4km long, rising in Cairncross State Forest Creek and flowing generally southwards to join Rawdon Creek about Gazetted: 4 Dec 1987 1km N of Munns Channel and 2km north of Little Rawdon Island, entering the river at Freeman's Bay (see H.S. Gazette, 6 Sep 1939). The entire section of the Hastings River at Freeman’s Bay.

Tommy Owens Hill On the Tacking point Road Port Macquarie

Tommy Owens "On the old Rollands Plains road" (see PMN, 07 March 1896, p.2). Waterhole

Toms Creek A partly perennial stream rising about 5km SW of Ellenborough. It Gazetted: 10 Jan 1969 flows generally NNE for about 4km into the Hastings River.

Toms Creek A village locality about 4km ENE of Mount Mickey Doran, about Gazetted: 16 Apr 1993 3km WNW of Innes Trig Station, and about 7km NW of Comboyne on the road to Ellenborough. Names Origins: (1) Named for Tom Duck an early settler. (2) Named by Tom Jackson who owned a property, “Toms Station”, where the creek passed through.

Toms Station Property on Toms River 15km SW of Ellenborough off Toms Creek Road.

Top Acre Property on the north bank of the Hastings River about 1km W of the mouth of the Maria River.

Tora Station 1km N of Rollands Plains near Willsbro.

Torrens A parish (Lands Administrative Division) in Port Macquarie. Gazetted: 16 Dec 1996

Torrens Anabranch An anabranch of the Maria River about 5km E of Allen Hill. Gazetted: 29 Jun 1973 Previous name Torrens River. Torrens Island River Island at the junction of the Maria and Wilson and Gazetted: 29 Jun 1973 about 1km E of Fentons Island and about 6km N of The Hatch locality.

Torulosa Farm in the Maria River State Forest Parish of Tinebank.

Touchwood In the Lake Innes area possibly the Argent family holding. Property on the western side of Lake Innes Road about 2km S of the Oxley Highway.

Town Beach A beach S of Pelican Point and North of Gaol Point, at Port Gazetted: 29 Jun 1973 Macquarie.

Tozer Street Port Macquarie. Horatio Tozer (1816-1865) was an apothecary whose store was a part of a grand edifice called Tozers Terrace in Horton Street where the Commonwealth Bank now stands. He was also on the first committee to control State Schools in the district in 1848.

Tozer Terrace Building in Horton Street Port Macquarie, probably built by Horatio Tozer – the original land was sold to J. Simmons then Cohen then Tozer in 1837. Today it is the site of the Commonwealth Bank.

Tramline Road Road NW of Logans Crossing.

Tranelba Half an acre property in William Street Port Macquarie - a 7 roomed cottage, bathroom, laundry - owned by C. M. Saville, Flett St. Taree- (see PMN, 19 Nov 1921).

Transit Hill A hill about 3km S of the town of Port Macquarie and W of Miners Gazetted: 29 Jun 1973 Beach. It is surmounted by Port Macquarie trig. Station. Also known as Astronomers Hill. An astronomical observatory was built there by William John MacDonnell (1842-1910) to view the 1882 Transit of Venus. In the early 1820s. Site was used for systematic recordings of atmospheric readings and the observation of the solstice. In 1882 William MacDonnell, a bank manager and keen astronomer in Port Macquarie, was assigned the job of documenting the transit of Venus for that year. Mr MacDonnell set up a temporary observatory on a hill just S of Port Macquarie. Unfortunately inclement weather prevented the observations. The hill is now known as Transit Hill. (See family file MacDonnell, Source: Port Macquarie Express, 15 Jan 1992).

Travellers Rest On the Oxley Highway at Long Flat. The Henry family purchased Hotel large parcels of land in the area in the 1870s and it was in this decade that the hotel was built. James Henry was the first official licencee. (Source: The History of Long Flat. Long Flat P&C Association 1987). Treachery Plains So named because of the attacks by Aborigines on the early convict cedar cutters there. Later became known as Rosewood.

Treelands A subdivision of Duncan Bain's Yeppin Yeppin (Information supplied by Hazel Suters).

Treetop Park A reserve in Koala Street, Port Macquarie. Gazetted: 4 Dec 1987

Tregony House on the corner of Clarence and Munster Street Port Macquarie built by Dr Sproule c1930’s. His surgery was downstairs and the residence was upstairs. It later became a Boarding House. Miss Lyons owned it and sold it to Mrs MacGeorge of Armidale in Nov 1928.

Tria Housing commission house for the aged Bridge St. Port Macquarie - completed 1962.

Trinity House The house on the eastern portion of Lot 34 Section 4 of the Town of Port Macquarie- owned by J. Phillips who had the Commercial Hotel on the Horton St side of the block with a brick terrace house on the Hay Street side. He had the hotel until he died in 1865 wife Esther died in 1866 - The terrace house of W.A. Spence in Hay Street 1880s plus - where Council buildings once stood (demolished in 1991) - adjacent to the School of Arts- possibly the early home of the Cohen family. It became known as Spence’s Terrace in Spences’ time.

Trotters Hollow Bonny Hills area.

Trotters Road see Fishers Ridge.

Tucker A road at Stirling Green, Sovereign Hills, Port Macquarie. James Tucker (1808-1888?), convict and supposed author, was born in Bristol, England in 1826, when at 18 he was charged with sending a threatening letter to a cousin, James Stanyford Tucker, of Leytonstone, Essex. Under the name James Rosenberg Tucker, clerk, he was tried at the Essex Assizes on 3 March 1826, found guilty, and sentenced to transportation for life. He arrived at Sydney on the Midas in February 1827. He was transferred to the penal settlement of Port Macquarie, where by September 1846 he was employed as a store-keeper to the superintendent. Tucker is alleged to have written at Port Macquarie three works: 'Jemmy Green in ', a comedy in three acts; 'The Grahames' Vengeance', a historical drama in three acts by 'Otto von Rosenberg'; and 'Ralph Rashleigh or the Life of an Exile', by 'Giacomo di Rosenberg', Though their authorship remains in doubt, the works attributed to Tucker occupy a significant place in the history of Australian literature. Tuckybunyubah Mountain in the Geary’s Flat area in Yessabah State Forest. Mountain Mountain NW of Upper Rollands Plains and north of Mt. Tinebank.

Tuffins Lane Possibly named for Robert Tuffin, a storekeeper at Blackman's Point. His son John [known as Jack] died in 1981.

Tullamore Farm on the Upper Pappinbarra Road just south of Blackbutt Creek.

Tumbledown Creek A non -perennial gully stream rising about 0.75km WSW of Boss Gazetted: 22 Nov 1968 trig. station. It flows generally NW for about 1.5km into Cockerawombeeba Creek.

Tuppeny Road Port Macquarie. So named because of the method used to raise the funds to build the road to the beach at Flynn’s Beach. In October 1944 the Surf Club President R.S. Stanfield invited the Main Roads Department (now RTA) to advise how a road might be cut to the beach from Pacific Drive. Due to war rationing cigarettes were hard to get and cost ten pence a packet. They were however freely available at Bob Stanfield’s Royal Hotel providing the purchaser paid one shilling and left tuppence (two pence) change in the collection box. Bob Stanfield also had another money raising idea. In those days of beer rationing non- regulars had to pay to get into his hotel when a keg was tapped. The tuppeny boxes raised $500 and Tuppeny Road was officially opened by the Minister of Lands Mr J. H. Tulley on 8 April 1945.

Twin Attics Station west of the Old Pacific Highway 4km N of Telegraph Point just south of Sun Valley Road.

Twin Rivers Property on the northern side of Stony Creek near the junction of Balyngarra Creek west of Rawdon Island North (Pembroke area).

Tyrill Diggings Mines seven miles SE of The Cells Upper near Yarras 1895.