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Hartley Court House - 1837 to 1937

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HISTORIC GLENROY, C O X ’S RIVER<br />

B y W . L . H a v a r d and B. T . D o w d .<br />

JUST as the main <strong>to</strong>urist road <strong>to</strong> Jenolan Caves crosses C ox’s<br />

Eiver beyond <strong>Hartley</strong>, New South Wales, it passes an<br />

his<strong>to</strong>ric camping ground. Here on the flats where above<br />

its junction with the Eiver Lett the stream breaks past granite<br />

boulders the spot now long known as Glenroy was a haven<br />

for all who travelled on the original road <strong>to</strong> the Bathurst Plains.<br />

T r o d d e n b y t h e F ir s t W h i t e M e n t o P a s s t h e<br />

B l u e M o u n t a in s .<br />

It was on May 28, 1813, that Blaxland, W entworth and<br />

Lawson, with four servants whose names they ungratefully<br />

left unrecorded, arrived at Mount York in the course of the<br />

first passage of the Blue Mountains, and discovered <strong>to</strong> their

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