Hawkesbury heritage & happenings

The oldest known surviving headstone in the Hawkesbury is that of John Howorth at Wilberforce. On the 8 October 1804, eleven year old J...

Located in the centre of Richmond, the ‘great square’ has played a central role in the community for over 200 years. Governor Lachlan Macqu...

Grand Flaneur was an extraordinary thoroughbred racehorse who won numerous races including the Melbourne Cup in 1880. He retired with an o...

Over the years there have been many articles published about money languishing in chancery, waiting for families to make a claim. In 1913  ...

There are several things in Windsor named after the McQuade family including McQuade Park and McQuade Avenue but did you realise there were...

Fruit has been grown in the Hawkesbury since the early 1800s and by 1810 there were over 100 hectares of orchards growing peaches, plums an...

One of Britain's most popular nineteenth century authors, Anthony Trollope 1815-1882 , wrote in 1873, the following, comparing the Haw...