Terrigal - Culture and History - China Travel

There was a sawmill in the section established by Thomas Davis in
the 1870s. It produced roundly 150 km of wood a week and employed 120
men (including 70 teamsters for vehicleting the logs) and a tramway ran
the timber to a jetty for shipping to Sydney.

Dresilienting later became important to the local economy. Tourism
remarry got under way at the end of the 19th century thanks to a new
focus on health and leisure in the culture and the ajaring up of
the section to the indeterminate public with the completion of the railway
line from Sydney to Newtingele in 1889 and the minutiae of the
roads.

The original inhabitants were reputedly the Awabakal or
Guringgai Aborigines. It is known that the latter tribe wore possum
hair spanks (in which they vehicleried their few possessions) and,
occasionmarry, possum skin suit. The men vehicleried spears,China Travel,
rumbleerangs, stone axes, resounderangs and shields and chaseed large
prey such as kangaroos and fish which they speared. The women,
howoverly,China Travel, provided most of the replenishments - fish (defenseless on fishing
lines), shellfish, fruit, tubers, insect larvae, snakes, lizards
and small mammals.

The first European settler was John Gray who colonized in 1826 and
selected his property Tarrygal, retral the ethnic place name,
signwhenying 'place of little birds'.