Timeline Stories

Population of Eden: 49 Population of Boydtown: 400   From at least this date George Barclay operated a general store from a slab building in Chandos Street.   Registration of […]

Customs House was built.   Oswald Brierly leaves Eden to join Captain Owen Stanley on the H.M.S. Rattlesnake.

First Post Office opened   First Court of Petty Sessions at Eden was held on 7th July 1847. Mr Charles Nagel was Clerk of Petty Session. Magistrates were O. Brierley,

George & Alexander Imlay die   Oswald Walter Brierly, and Thomas Winder Campbell, Esqrs., both of Boyd Town appointed magistrates for Twofold Bay

Crown and Anchor completed & James Rixon granted first liquor license.   Road constructed from The Monaro to Eden via Pambula

Post Office built in Boydtown   Ben Boyd’s paddle steamer commenced mail service to Sydney

Jan 3rd: Pathfinder Expedition returns to Twofold Bay from the Monaro.   Captain Owen Stanley from HMS Rattlesnake surveyed the Bay with Lt Bamfield Yule.   9th March: The first

Eden surveyed by Mr Thomas Townsend.   “His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct it to be notified, for general information, that a settlement at Twofold Bay will

Establishment of a post once a week, connecting Broulee with Twofold Bay.   Dr Imlay undertook the post conveyance to and from Twofold Bay at his own risk, for twelve

Captain Thomas Raine, then a Sydney merchant and whaler, put 25 men ashore in Snug Cove under the command of John Irvine to begin a shore-based whaling operation. The Schooner