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Portion 15, Assurance and Thrift Association Ltd; 3 acres. Portion 50 granted to Thomas Morley; 40 acres. Portion 51 granted to Thomas Williams on 10 July 1889; 112 acres. Portion 52 granted to John James Hill, 120 acres. Portion 50, 51 and 52 were conditional purchases. All portions are in the parish of Kahibah.
D.P. 11260, which shows a subdivision of Portion 52, was declared on 21 November 1921. Bounded on the north by Scrubby Creek, it covered the streets now known as Warners Bay Road, a section of Violet Town Road, and both sides of Wilsons Road.
D.P. 17261, which shows a subdivison of Portion 15 and part of Portion 5 1, was declared on 22 February 1932. This subdivision was called the "Thriftdale Estate", and covered the streets now known as Warners Bay, Auklet and Tennent Roads. It was also bounded, in the south, by Scrubby Creek. The Assurance and Thrift Association Ltd were the vendors for this subdivision.
Thomas Williams appears to have been the first settler before 1 862 but did not at first own the land. In 1862, after Robertson's Crown Lands Alienation Act, the Crown Lands Office sold portions to Williams and to Thomas Morley. In 1875 there was a grant to James Hill and in 1922 to Thomas Wilson.
In 1931 the bus service from Speers Point to Charlestown and Newcastle passed through Mt. Hutton. In 1937 this private service was taken over by government buses.
Opened I September 1941, and closed 30 April 1979.
Mount Hutton Public School opened January 1955.
Lake Macquarie Fair, a large shopping complex, was built to the design of
Eckford and Johnson at a cost of $20 million and opened in 1985.
1948.
1964.
