Lower Portland, Sackville Reach Aboriginal Memorial Reserve

Sackville Reach Aboriginal Memorial Reserve - Lower Portland

Monument Details
Address:	off Holmes Drive Lower Portland New South Wales, Australia
Location:	turn left off Holmes Drive into Hawkesbury City Council reserve. Follow to roads end. Park at gate at entrance to Aboriginal Memorial Reserve, then walk approximately 100 metres along track to memorial.
Responsible Authority:	Hawkesbury City Council
Number of Monuments:	1
Names Recorded:	0
Period Covered:	Unveiled 1952

Register:

Although the monument does not list any individuals, it commemorates the Hawkesbury Aboriginal community as a whole.

The area of land in which the Aboriginal Memorial Reserve is located, sits alongside a stretch in the Hawkesbury River known as Cumberland Reach.

Map of memorial:

Notes:

Three sides of the memorial have been inscribed: the front (facing the Hawkesbury River), right hand side and left hand side respectively. There is also a N.S.W. State Survey Mark located on the front right hand side of the square base of the monument. Photos and inscriptions in the above mentioned order follow.

THIS OBELISK / ERECTED / AS A MEMORIAL / TO THE ABORIGINES / OF THE HAWKESBURY / FOR WHOM THIS AREA / WAS ORIGINALLY RESERVED

THIS MEMORIAL / IS THE GIFT OF / P.W. GLEDHILL. ESQ. / F S A G.. / AND INTERESTED FRIENDS.

UNVEILED BY / CR. H. C. MATHESON. ESQ., / PRESIDENT. / COLO SHIRE COUNCIL. / DEDICATED BY / VERY REV. S. BARTON-BABBAGE / M.A., PH.D., TH.D. / DEAN OF SYDNEY. / 5TH JULY 1952.

N.S.W. STATE SURVEY MARK 97529

For further information refer to "Shut Out from the World - The Sackville Reach Aborigines Reserve & Mission 1889 - 1946" written by Jack Brook.

Credits:

Transcriptions and photography by Jonathan Auld and Michelle Nichols - October 2003.