magdalenaokularczyk, Author at Milton Ulladulla Historical Society

Hotel Marlin, Ulladulla – post WW2 luxury

Officially opened in August 1948, the Marlin Hotel on the Princes Highway in Ulladulla became the first hotel to open…

Sickness was the true scourge of the pioneers, with diphtheria, convulsions, scarlet fever and measles often causing the deaths of…

Bernard Brown, ancestor of a number of Milton Ulladulla residents, arrived in NSW as a free settler in November, 1848.…

Gwenda Porter arrived in Milton by bus in 1940 and was said to have told the bus driver that she…

I was born in 1945 at the Old Milton Hospital from where my parents Leila and Elwyn (‘Tiger’) Anderson took…

In April 1770 Captain James Cook sailed past Ulladulla as he made his way up the coast in HMS Endeavour…

The first reference to any feature of the country within a radius of 20 miles of Ulladulla was made by…

Australian nurses served with great distinction during World War 1. Although they were often initially not welcomed by officers who…

Some 500m distance from the Anglican Church of St Peter and Paul in Milton is its long-forgotten historic cemetery at…

By the 1840s, the fertile land closest to the sea had been taken up. It needed a hardy breed to…