Some Pioneer Tales from the Northern Beaches

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AuthorMichelle RichmondDateApril 2024DescriptionIn the early colonial era and before the village of Manly was laid out in the 1850s, the Northern Beaches was a very rural, sparsely populated area with a few farms dotted along or near the coast and several cottages on Pittwater accessible only by water. The European population were mostly small-time farmers who co-existed with those on the peripheries of colonial society, attracted to the area because of its isolation. Here are the stories of some of those pioneersSubjectsPioneersKeywordsOliver
Farrell
Collins
Cossar
Ramsay

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Some Pioneer Tales from the Northern Beaches