Cessnock is a city in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, about 52 km by road west of Newcastle. Cessnock was named after an 1826 grant of land called Cessnock Estate, which was owned by John Campbell.
Greater Cessnock contains a number of buildings and sites that are on the Register of the National Estate.
- Court House, Branxton
- Police Station and Residence, Branxton
- Former Court House, Greta
- Kurri Kurri Hotel, Lang and Hampden Streets, Kurri Kurri
- Richmond Main Colliery, Mulbring Rd, Pelaw Main
- Laguna House, Laguna
- Post Office, Wollombi
- Endeavour Museum (former Court House), Wollombi
- Public School, Wollombi
- St Michael's Catholic Church, Wollombi
- St John the Evangelist Anglican Church, Wollombi
- Stanford Main No.2 Colliery Pit Head Building, Brick Cottages
- Aboriginal Rock Carvings Site, popularly known as Baiame Cave, Milbrodale Area
- This area is the traditional lands of the The Darkinjung peoples.
The Baiame cave is outside the village of Milbrodale in the Lower Hunter
Valley, not far from the town of Wollombi. It is close to Bulga, the
site of an Aboriginal ceremonial bora ground, the place where boys were
initiated into manhood. The Bulga bora has been described as being of
‘immeasurable significance’ by the NSW Department of Planning.
Baiame is the creator spirit of the Dreaming of the Aboriginal
peoples of South-Eastern Australia, including the Wonnarua, Wiradjuri,
Darkinjung, Awabakal, Worimi and Kamilaroi.
The first European references to Baiame date from the 1820s and 1830s
and appear in the accounts of missionaries and white ‘explorers’. There
are many variations in the spelling of his name.
What is it about Cessnock, I know a lot of people from there. Its an old mining town and it shows too and the smell of the coal is very evident everywhere you go. The main street is a classic very long one that seems to stretch on forever but now boasting many empty business places. The street looked tired for such a rich mining area.
The other day two men from here lost there lives in a mine collapse and the locals are in shock, although they all ought to realize they take their lives in their own hands each time they go down. These miners go down kilometers under the ground. Its a terrifying job I would not want my husband doing this work for all the gold in China.
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| Pit Houses in Cessnock |
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| Half Round Pit Houses in Macquarie Avenue Cessnock |
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