Little Forest, New South Wales

Little Forest is a rural suburb of the City of Shoalhaven on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. Little Forest is to the north or Milton and the west of Yatte Yattah below the escarpment of Little Forest Plateau part of Morton National Park.[2] It lies to the west of the Princes Highway.

Little Forest
New South Wales
Subtropical Rainforest at Little Forest Creek, Little Forest, NSW, Australia.
Population185 (SAL 2021)[1]
Established1827
Postcode(s)2539
Elevation96 m (315 ft)
Location
LGA(s)Shoalhaven
Federal division(s)Gilmore
Suburbs around Little Forest:
Porters Creek Pointer Mountain Yatte Yattah
Porters Creek Little Forest Yatte Yattah
Endrick Croobyar Mount Kingiman Milton

History

Little Forest had the southern most distribution for Australian Red Cedar and as such the species in the area was heavily exploited in the 19th century during the 'red gold' rush.[3] The land was claimed by Reverend Thomas Kendall in 1827 as part of Kendall's original Yatte Yattah land grant. Convicts and timbergetters carted lumber from Little Forest and Yatte Yattah to Ulladulla Harbour where it was shipped to markets. By the 1900s most of the red cedar had become locally extinct and Little Forest became a cattle farming area.[4]

References
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Little Forest (Suburb and Locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
  2. "Blessing of the fleet returns to Ulladulla". Milton Ulladulla Times. 2022-12-20. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  3. Whittington, Dorothy (2021-05-14). "The 'red gold' rush: when money grew on trees". Sunshine Coast News. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  4. "History of Ulladulla Harbour | Ulladulla.Info". ulladulla.info. 2010-01-13. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
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