About Mount Wilson, NSW
Mount Wilson
This location was surveyed by W. R. Govett in 1833. However, it was not
until after 1867, when it was rediscovered by George Bartley Bowen and
subsequently surveyed and subdivided by Edward Sanford Wyndham of the
Government Survey Department, that the area was settled. In 1868 the
Deputy Surveyor-General P. F. Adams, while visiting the survey camp,
named the area Mount Wilson after the Minister for Lands John Bowie
Wilson. The lots did not sell quickly until the opening of the Mount Wilson
railway platform in 1875, within twelve months of which all the original blocks
were sold.
www.dictionaryofsydney.org/place/mount_wilson
Mount Irvine
It is claimed that those responsible for naming the mountain beyond Mount
Wilson in the late 1860s mistakenly gave it this name in the belief that it was
located within the parish of Irvine. It is actually in the parish of Bilpin. Another
theory suggests that the name was given in honour of John Bowie Wilson,
Minister for Lands at the time, who was born at Irvine in Ayrshire, Scotland, in
1820. Mount Irvine was not settled until 1897, when Charles Robert Scrivener,
Basil Knight-Brown and Harold Morley each took up land there.
Mount Tomah
Home of the cool climate botanic garden
www.mounttomahbotanicgarden.com.au/your-visit/history/
Bell (1067m)
A railway platform was opened here in 1875 with the name Mount Wilson.
This was changed to Bell in 1889, in honour of Archibald Bell Jnr., of
Richmond Hill, who discovered a route over Mount Tomah to the Cox’s River
in 1823. This alternative route across the Blue Mountains became known as
Bell’s Line of Road.
Mount Banks
A striking sandstone base under a granite cap marks this peak on the edge of the Grose Valley just off the Bells Line of Road.
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