Wollongong Harbour History Walk #3, NSW, Australia
S 34° 25.241 E 150° 54.388
56H E 307609 N 6189210
The plaque provides history of this area.
Waymark Code: WM7JR6
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 11/01/2009
Views: 15
Copied from the plaque:
"Sydney Bound
The original inner harbour or basin was completed by convict labour in 1844. Five years later the steamer "William the Fourth" departed Wollongong for Sydney with Illawarra's first commercial shipment of coal. By the early 1860s tramlines had connected mines west of Wollongong to the harbour area. With growing amounts of coal becoming available for export shipping within the harbour also increased. In 1889 the Wollongong Harbour Trust League wrote to the Colonial Secretary, Hon. Sir Henry Parkes, stating that the Harbour is "dangerously overcrowded with vessels and steamers". Within the following ten years the basin saw a rapid decline in shipping with the bulk of Ilawarra's trade going along the recently completed Sydney railway or through the developing harbour of Port Kembla."
Group that erected the marker: City of Wollongong
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
Endeavor Drive
Wollongong, NSW Australia
0000
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: Not listed
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