PARISH OF SOUTH BELLINGEN,  COUNTY OF RALEIGH

Re the red cedar trees that once grew in this area of the lower Bellinger River - "it is recorded of one growing between Fernmount and Raleigh that 39,000 superficial feet of timber were obtained by the saw and that another 5,000 superficial feet twelve or so years later were axe chopped out of the limbs by the succeeding settlers. Of another on what is now Connell's farm, near Fernmount (Ed. shown above in yellow adjoining the green Williams farm), it is recorded that a family named Woods lived in the roofed over spurs for two years" - from "A History of the NSW Forestry Commission", p.108, quoting from a 1912 Bulletin written by E.H.F. Swain, then a district forester and later the NSW Commissioner of Forests.