Final Essay on '67 Flood
IN the year 1867 there was a great flood of the Hawkesbury. The water came not many feet away from St. James' Church, at Pitt Town. A little wattle tree stands on…
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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Floods & storms
22 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 2 of 2
IN the year 1867 there was a great flood of the Hawkesbury. The water came not many feet away from St. James' Church, at Pitt Town. A little wattle tree stands on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BELOW we publish a copy of the original letter written at the time, by Mrs. William Smith, of Cornwallis (Clarend on), for the late Dr. Selkirk, giving a graphic description of her experiences and those of her family during the great Hawkesbury flood of 1867…
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