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Captain McGregor Memorial Garden / March 2013
Captain McGregor Memorial Garden / March 2013
Captain McGregor Memorial Garden / March 2013
Bicentennial Plaque / March 2013

Photographs supplied by Diane Watson

The memorial garden, established as a project to commemorate Australia's bicentenary, commemorates Captain William McGregor who arrived in the schooner Bellinger to establish the pilot station at Point Danger in 1870.

Location

Address:Stuart Street, Tweed Heads Public School, Tweed Heads, 2485
State:NSW
Area:AUS
GPS Coordinates:Lat: -28.169652
Long: 153.54202
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
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Details

Monument Type:Garden
Monument Theme:People
Sub-Theme:Settlement
Actual Event Start Date:1788
Actual Event End Date:1988

Dedication

Front Inscription

               MEMORIAL GARDEN
       CAPTAIN WILLIAM McGREGOR
    PILOT OFFICER    TWEED RIVER HEADS
                   1870   1897

Inscription in Proximity
          1788-1988

AN AUSTRALIAN BICENTENNIAL
          PROJECT
      To commemorate
the nation’s bicentenary
            in 1988

 

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