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Raymond Terrace Transport
| Early Transport in Raymond Terrace Transport in the early days was by water. It was many years before roads were conditioned to a state fit for traffic other than by horseback. To give an idea of the roads in 1875 the road from Raymond Terrace to Hexham was a sand track. Each settler along the river had a boat and water transport was utilised to the full. This accounts for the business part of the town being placed near the river, in the flooded area, when there was abundant high land to occupy. It was much more convenient for the stores to load the food into the settlers' boats and to accommodate the traffic in boats on the river, a boat harbour was built at the foot of Bourke Street about 95 years ago, and this also gave safe shelter from rough westerly winds. The boat harbour has been filled in for many years now as the need for it disappeared as boats went off the river giving place to road transport in bullock drays and later the horse became more generally used. At this period, it was a usual thing for the settlers to come to Raymond Terrace for household water, and a well at the foot of Glenelg Street, known as the Settlers' Well was the main source of supply. The settler had to carry the water from the well to a cask in his boat. Casks were the only vessels for the conveyance of water, but later years saw the square 400 gallon tank used as a water supply, and those who were fortunate enough to have a roof that was equipped with spouting were the envy of the neighbours. Water was often drawn by bullock teams from water holes in the bush and in dry seasons this was not of the purest, being thickly infused with decomposed vegetation and full of wogs and other aquatic denizens. There were many small ketches trading on the river conveying produce from the farms to the wharves where ocean going boats picked it up for the Sydney markets. They sailed when the winds and tide were favourable or poled them along when the wind failed. One of the crew would get ashore and with a rope tow the ketch by walking along the bank, the other member of the crew, there were two generally, kept the vessel from running aground by poling her out from the bank. (From - Raymond Terrace 150th Anniversary Celebrations and Jubilee of Commonwealth of Australia September 1951) |
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