Re: Just wondering: why is East Hills East Hills?

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

Is East Hills still referred to as Snake Valley by train crews at all?

Chris

Deeg <galtfd@att.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 22 May 2000 20:12:06 +1000, "Jane Campbell"
> <janecampbell@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> >The name of this suburb on the northern shores of the Georges River was
> >first applied to the whole area between The River Road, running south
from
> >Bankstown, and the river; it was first mentioned in the Sydney Gazette in
> >1810.  George Johnston junior (1790-1820) received 500 acres here as a
grant
> >in 1804, which he called New Jerusalem.  It covered an area west of the
> >present River Road, between Bansgrove and Tompson Streets.  His tenant
> >farmer, Robert Gardiner, called his farm East Hills, perhaps after the
> >region of that name near Liverpool in England.  In 1828 Thomas Graham was
> >promised 640 acres south of Johnston's and in 1835 he sold it to Charles
> >Tompson.  The area to the West was bought by George Nicholas Weston in
1837.
> >All of the area was heavily timbered and, although it was all alienated
by
> >about 1840, it remained sparsely occupied until the end of the century.
In
> >1893 the area of the former Johnston and Weston grants (bounded
> >approximately by The River Road and Tower, Weston and Polo Streets, now
in
> >Panania and Revesby_ was subdivided and named East Hills after the farm.
> >The name was also given to the station at the end of the line when the
> >railway came through in 1931.
> >
> >Did you want to know all that?
>
> Yes. Of course, I didn't know I wanted to know it.
>
> Thank you for such a detailed account, and thanks to all who replied.
> Now I know not only about East Hills but about all sorts of station
> names. So much erudition from one little question!
>
> Don Galt
> Seattle USA