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The Guringai people had lived in Pittwater for thousands of years when Europeans arrived in 1788 and soon displaced them. By the 1790 most of the Aboriginal people from this area had been wiped out by an epidemic of small pox.From 1810 Aboriginal lands were given to pardoned convicts and free settlers. Some land was cleared for cultivation and to provide timber for building and fuel. Later in the century Pittwater became a farming district, grazing sheep, cattle, horses and pigs and producing butter, milk, vegetables, fruit and wheat.

This unique heritage is why you will find so many interesting Aboriginal sites within the park, such as burial sites, rock engravings, cave drawings, paintings and stencils and other areas that indicate Aboriginal settlers once resided there.

Pittwater was isolated and reached mainly by ship to Barrenjoey and after 1880 to Newport. The earliest land explorations followed Aboriginal tracks. Over the years a rough bush road was established from Manly, along the coast to Narrabeen. By the early 1880s a bridge spanned the ford at Narrabeen. Travellers by coach paused at the Rock Lily Hotel in Mona Vale (which opened in 1886), and then continued northwest to Bayview and Church Point, or northeast for Newport and Barrenjoey.

However since the 1950s, Pittwater has become predominantly residential in character and is a suburban region of Sydney.

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