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Maitland, city, eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Hunter River valley. It is located on the New England Highway, about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Newcastle. Founded as a settlement for convicts (1818–21), it was called in turn The Camp, Molly Morgan Plains, and Wallis Plains.
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Maitland (/ ˈ m eɪ t l ə n d /) is a city in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia and the seat of Maitland City Council, situated on the Hunter River approximately 166 kilometres (103 mi) by road north of Sydney and 35 km (22 mi) north-west of Newcastle.
Dec 18, 2015 · The Maitland City Council has produced an iBook and Teacher’s Manual on the history of the early settlers of Wallis Plains in the Maitland/Hunter Region of NSW.
The Convict Adventure at Wallis Plains invites students to explore the life and times of Maitland’s first European settlement and the twelve convicts chosen to live there. The book is filled with written content, photographs (old and new), audio and video media and interactive widgets for use in the classroom.
1823. Henry Dangar undertook formal surveys of original small holdings at Paterson Plains and Wallis Plains. James Mudie constructed a wharf at Wallis Plains in the Horseshoe Bend meander near today’s High Street (Port of Maitland); a cattle yard and grain store established next to the wharf.
May 14, 2022 · Of the people who were granted small plots of land to farm at Wallis Plains in 1818, we know most about Molly Morgan. Born Mary Jones in Corfton, in the western Midlands of England in 1762, she was to become a major figure in early Maitland. Her pioneering contribution was enormous.
Oct 10, 2023 · Wallis Plains (now Maitland) was first settled by Europeans in 1818 and 1819. As at Patersons Plains, its dozen original settlers were mainly convicts deemed by Governor Lachlan Macquarie to be sufficiently trustworthy to be provided with land on which to establish small farms.
