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Hunter District Water Board Plans of the 1890s
In the 1890s the Hunter District Water Board commissioned the Survey Section of the New South Wales Department of Lands to produce a series of large scale plans of urban Newcastle for planning purposes.
Special Collections holds the scanned images of over 220 plans, of a possible 270 covering the Newcastle urban area west as far as Lambton. Some of the plans were updated to about 1920, and the collection represents an invaluable historical asset.
See also The Hunter District Water Board Plans of the 1890s: A Presentation to the Hunter Living Histories Initiative by Russell Rigby.
Other CollectionMaps, Plans and Large Format Items
