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From: "The Giffos" <>
Subject: Pearl Beach
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:05:36 +1100
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Kay
I have a small booklet called Place names on the Central Coast. It says it
was once called Green Point and was possibly the first stop Governor Phillip
and his party made in after leaving Sydney in March 1978 to explore Broken
Bay.;

He also stopped at the now Green Point - quite some distance north towards
Gosford (where I live) on the same trip- obelisk to mark this spot as I
believe there is at Pearl Beach.

The article goes on to say it was left in isolation for almost a century
until Rock Davis and William Mosely purchased land where Rock Davis kept
cattle and used the timber for his ship building at Blackwall (Gwen
doubtless will comment on this)

CR Staples and Co of Sydney purchased the land from the estate of Rock Davis
and in 1928 subdivided and sold the land as Pearl Beach.... etc as you said.
Sounds like an early marketing ploy just as later - in the 1950's- the
notorious (to locals) Copacabana was developed and all the streets given Sth
American names.

As a born and bred local, I always though the name was derived from the
design the incoming waves make on the beach- lovely scallop or pearl shaped
indentations, which can clearly be seen from the Mt Ettymalong headland
above. Have a few family shots of the beach clearly showing this.

Best wishes

Judy



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