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."
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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 . . .
![Port Stephens City 1st Subdivision plan](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/Port%20Stephens%20City%202%20reduced%20010123.jpg?itok=3W5yVwDr)
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 . . .
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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
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
by janiner
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Nine years ago, Patricia Neal wrote an article in the Newcastle Family History Journal about her memories of her family buying a block of land at North Arm Cove in . . .
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This is an interesting photo. It shows five men standing on the boundaries of lot 871 in Port Stephens City. The two men in the foreground are standing next to . . .
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When Maureen Kelly left the Cove she kindly left NACCAi with a bag of photos, newspaper clippings and historical information on North Arm Cove. The following historical black and white . . .
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Sunday 6 May 1918 is the accepted date for when the Port Stephens waterfront village of North Arm Cove began life as Port Stephens City. The celebrated Canadian Town Planner . . .