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Merryjack (a group admin) says:
04 Nov 09 - Hi Folks, welcome to the Lawson, Blue Mountains group, please add your interesting images of this historic little town and adjacent areas, both past and present. Thanks, Jack
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About Lawson, NSW
Lawson (elev. 732m)
This location appears in early references as The Swamp or Christmas Swamp and, in the 1830s, as Twenty Four Mile Hollow. Following the opening of Henry Wilson’s Blue Mountain Inn in the mid-1840s the area became popularly known as Blue Mountain, a name adopted by the railway when a station was opened here in 1867. The name of the town and its railway station were changed to Lawson in 1879 in honour of William Lawson, the explorer.
Hazelbrook (674m)
In the 1870s a private residence, Hazelbrook House (no longer in existence),
was built by Edward Higgs on the south side of the railway line. When a
railway station was opened opposite in 1884 the name Hazelbrook was
adopted. There is a popular view, unsubstantiated by other than oral
evidence, that Hazelbrook House took its name from a "Hazel Brook" flowing
in the area that in turn got its name from "hazel-like trees" growing nearby.
Bullaburra (769m)
Much of the land here was originally owned by Sir Henry Parkes who named
the locality The Village of Colridge. In the 1920s Arthur Rickard & Co. opened
a large subdivision here and gave it the name of Bullaburra, an Aboriginal (not
local) word said to mean "blue sky" or "fine weather". The railway station
opened with this name in 1925.
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