Title:
A Church on Pulpit Hill, unlocking a Blue Mountains mystery [blog article]
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Call Number:
LS BLOG
Publication Information:
Springwood, N.S.W.: Blue Mountains Library,, 2020
Summary:
Edgar Church's headstone with others nearby (photo by John Merriman) It has long been popularly held that a number of convicts who died while working on road gangs in the Blue Mountains were buried at Pulpit Hill, just west of Katoomba. There are also folk traditions that free 'pioneers' were interred there. However, when it comes to verifying these traditions, there are few accurate sources. In the years after the Western Road to Bathurst was opened to traffic in 1815, Pulpit Hill became a ...
Format:
Digital Library
Language:
English
