Hunter Living Histories - Coal River Working Party
Article by Jodi Vial - Posted 27 March 2017It is 1846 and Harriet Scott is a girl of 16 when her father, Alexander Walker Scott, decides to move his family from Sydney to a home on Ash Island, in the Hunter River near Hexham. Harriet is accompanied by her sister Helena, 14, her stepsister Mary Ann and the girls’ mother, Harriet. The scene would be unrecognisable today, as industry had not yet staked its claim on the wilds of Ash Island. The homestead built by Walker Scott stood quite close to the river, at the end of a long jetty, and was surrounded by trees. As one visitor to the island wrote in a letter to The Colonist newspaper dated August 27, 1835....... https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2017/03/27/the-scott-sisters-of-ash-island/
