North Arm Cove is a quiet little coastal village now but had some dreams been realised it could well have turned into a bustling port city. " The most central spot, where the new city is to be in the Great Port of the New Northern State."
Houghs Estate is the land along the Pacific Highway between Bulga Creek and Bundabah Creek. Realty Realizations sold this land about 50 years ago. Realty Realizations Pty Ltd was the . . .
by dougk
History
North Arm Cove first rated a mention in the NSW Parliament in 1992, and it has been mentioned about a couple of dozen times since. Most of the early mentions . . .
The old nonurban amenities building was the target of an arson attack a couple of weeks ago. Thankfully, the arsonists did not use a highly combustible accelerant and the RFS . . .
by dougk
You may be asking “What on earth is a “pleonasm?”. Wikipedia warns you not to confuse a “pleonasm” with a “neoplasm” which is an abnormal and excessive growth. That would . . .
Visits to Port Stephens by NSW Governors are not particularly common though we did have one last week from Governor Margaret Beazley. But who was the first Governor to visit . . .
Over the past few months I have been researching the history of the North Arm Cove subdivision, and in particular the subdivision designs done by Henry Halloran. The original design . . .
Did you know that MidCoast Council does not own many of the roads in the non-urban area? Most of the roads on the northern and eastern side of the bitumen . . .
by bobreid
Information📎
I have been researching the history of the North Arm Cove paper subdivision, including what developers were doing to market the land many years ago, and how they were saying . . .
Up on a hill behind Promontory Way there is a sign stating that there are Aboriginal Artefacts on the site. Last week I published an article by Patricia Neal, whose . . .

