Re: IT'S ACADEMIC - EASY ONE! -AND ANOTHER NOT-SO-EASY

["Ron BEST" <ronbest@bigpond.com>]

The bridge was built by the Union Bridge Company or some such. The town was
called Brooklyn because that's where the builders were from, suggested by
the fact that it's at one end of a bridge, and Long Island is nearby.
(Brooklyn, NY is, of course, ON Long Island)
Rgds

RON BEST
Neil Waller wrote in message <36DB1542.44F19744@dehaa.sa.gov.au>...
>Krel wrote:
>
>>
>> Four Names (four renamings)
>> Peat's Ferry-Brooklyn-Hawkesbury River-Hawkesbury-Hawkesbury River.
>>
>
>
>Why is the station Hawkesbury River? - the adjacent town is Brooklyn,
apparently
>named after the builders of the first Hawkesbury Bridge, the Brooklyn
Bridge
>Company of New York.
>
>The station has had the "correct" name once and an "incorrect" name
>4 times, including currently.   Were I going to Brooklyn by train I would
not
>suspect that the station was Hawkesbury River, unless I had prior
knowledge.
>
>If anyone hasn't been there it's quite a pleasant spot.
>
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>Neil Waller (nwaller@denr.sa.gov.au)
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