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Hassall's Farm (NSW)
Farm located on the eastern bank of the Nepean River, named 'Macquarie Grove' - belonged to Rowland Hassall. It is the present-day site for Camden Airport.

Hawkesbury River (NSW)
Important waterway flowing into Broken Bay, north of Sydney. Named by Governor Phillip in June 1789 in honour of Charles Jenkinson (1727-1808), first Earl of Liverpool and first Baron Hawkesbury. The Aboriginal name was Deerubbin, now variously spelt, and said to mean 'wide deep water.' The river is tidal for about one-third of its course; tributaries include the Nepean, Grose, Colo and Macdonald rivers.

European settlement commenced along its banks in 1794 when Lt.Gov. Grose installed 22 settlers at the South Creek confluence and farming was established on its fertile river flats. By 1798 a small village known as Green Hills (later Windsor) had developed. The first settlers cultivated wheat and maize, and in the early years the Hawkesbury district was the chief granary for the colony. Flooding of the river became one of the major challenges and hardships for the early settlers of the district.

Conflict with the local Dharug people was at times severe and ferocious - with a number of deaths on both sides: for prior to white settlement the area was a rich source of food for the Dharug who fished in the river for mullet, netted birds in the river (and adjacent creeks and swamps), as well as trapping eels in the lagoons, digging up yams on the alluvial flats, and hunting marsupials in the nearby bush. European occupation of the river banks inevitably led to the destruction of the Aboriginal economy - and frontier war was its unfortunate outcome.

Hobart Town (VDL, Tasmania)
Named Hobart Town in 1804 after Lord Hobart, Secretary of State for Colonies; the abbreviated form of Hobarton occasionally appears. Hobart Town gradually supplanted the Derwent as the name for the port.

When Macquarie visited in 1811 the town was a straggle of makeshift huts; as a consequence, he ordered a survey and the introduction of building regulations. Became the administrative centre for all of Van Diemen's Land in 1813. Developed as an important base for South Sea whalers, and also became a major shipbuilding centre.

Hythe (Kent, England)
Coastal town (one of the original Cinque Ports). Located on the eastern edge of Romney Marsh near Folkestone.

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