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The Dennis Bridge was opened in December 1961 as part of a project to replace the Blackmans Point ferry across the Hastings River and to bypass Port Macquarie.As well as the Dennis Bridge, this project included a 10-kilometre (6 mi) deviation of the Pacific Highway and a three-kilometre (two-mile) connecting road from the old to the new highway route, Hastings River Drive.
Port Macquarie, sometimes shortened to Port Mac and commonly locally nicknamed Port, [2] is a coastal city on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, 390 km (242 mi) north of Sydney, and 570 km (354 mi) south of Brisbane, on the Tasman Sea coast at the mouth of the Hastings River, and the eastern end of the Oxley Highway (B56).
King's Highway 14, commonly referred to as Highway 14, was a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. At its peak length, the route connected Highway 33 in Bloomfield, near Picton, with Highway 7 in Marmora. Portions of this longer route are now designated as Highway 62.
Oxley Oval is an Australian cricket ground situated in Port Macquarie, New South Wales which hosted a 1979 World Series Cricket (WSC) match between the WSC West Indian XI and WSC World XI sides. [1] The match, which began on 2 January, saw a seven-wicket West Indian victory thanks largely to four wickets by Wayne Daniel and a score of 83 by Viv ...
The hospital was founded as the private in 1946 at a home at 96 John Street as the Port Perry Hospital, but closed to cost of upgrading the old building in 1948. [1] In 1949 residences used for munitions workers were moved from Ajax, Ontario and moved to Port Perry.
The lighthouse, completed in 1840 and renovated in the 1980s, [3] remains one of Canada's oldest Lighthouses of a completely wooden construction. Present in the museum collection is the most accurate model ever built of the rail car ferry the Ashtabula, which made routine trips between Port Burwell and Ashtabula, Ohio for the purposes of transporting coal.
On 14 September 1867 a notice was placed in the Government Gazette calling for tenders for the erection of a courthouse and lockup at Macquarie. Tenders closed at noon on 8 October 1867. [1] The building was designed by James Barnet and the builder chosen for the task was Butler and Bourne of Port Macquarie who bid 875 pounds.
Macquarie County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales, Australia.It is bordered to the north by the Apsley River, and to the south by the Manning River.