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06-February-2016
06-February-2016

Photographs supplied by Peter F Williams

The Evans Survey Marker was installed as part of the Footsteps in Time Bicentenary Project in 1988 to commemorate the remarking of the first survey over the Blue Mountains by explorer and surveyor, George William Evans. The markers have since been restored.  

There are fifteen, mostly unseen pillars or obelisks that re-mark the original 1813-14 survey by surveyor, George Evans who followed close behind the explorers Blaxland, Lawson & Wentworth & their 1813 Blue Mountains Crossing. In July, 1814 a party of men led by William Cox commenced building the road from Daniel Woodriff's farm at Penrith to Bathurst. Governor Macquarie travelled to Bathurst on the new 100 mile long road in April 1815.


George William Evans (5 January 1780 – 16 October 1852) was a surveyor and early explorer in the colony of New South Wales. On 13 November 1813 Governor Lachlan Macquarie sent Evans across the Blue Mountains into the Wiradjuri nation of central-western New South Wales to confirm the findings of the exploration party of Blaxland, Lawson, and Wentworth. He was the first European to record meeting with the Wiradjuri people of the region.  

Evans generally followed the route of Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth, reaching the end of their route on 26 November 1813 at a point Evans named Mount Blaxland. Evan's party then moved on and discovered the Fish River area and further west near the junction of the now named Fish and Campbell Rivers and described two plains in his view, the O'Connell Plains and the Macquarie Plains. It was on 9 December that he reached the site of present day Bathurst.

 

Location

Address:Sir Henrys Parade, Corridor of Oaks, Jackson Park, Faulconbridge, 2776
State:NSW
Area:AUS
GPS Coordinates:Lat: -33.695037
Long: 150.539423
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
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Details

Monument Type:Monument
Monument Theme:Landscape
Sub-Theme:Exploration
Link:http://adb.anu.edu.au/

Dedication

Actual Monument Dedication Date:Sunday 24th May, 1992
Front Inscription

Traverse of George William Evans
Latitude             33° 41' 47''
Longtitude       150° 32' 15"

6th Jan.1814
FAULCONBRIDGE MARKER

Unveiled by Jennifer Hunt
24th May, 1992

Footsteps in Time

 

Source: MA, ADB
Monument details supplied by Monument Australia - www.monumentaustralia.org.au