Today we visited Blacket Park, which is 10min walk from our new house.
The girls had a ball and we learnt just a small bit about the history of the area we will now call home.
The park is named after early resident Cyril Blacket (1857-1937.) He was the son of Edmund Blacket, a Colonial Architect. Cyril was a well known architect himself having designed the School of Arts (Nowra), Husskison Anglican Church and the Memorial Gates in Nowra.
From 1885 Cyril and his family lived in 10 bedroom house(Tasman House) made of spotted-gum, on the estate of Tasman Park (1000 acres), which was situated on the northwest corner of St Georges Basin.
The house was destroyed by fire in 1926.
Blacket had business interests in the Shoalhaven, including salt making, timber, real state, cattle, invented building materials and operated accommodation for tourists.
he moved from Nowra to Manly, where he died on 27th February 1937 at the age of 80. Attempts to subdivide Tasman Park Estate were unsuccessful and after his death the land was sold to Halloran & Co which had acquired extensive landholdings in the Shoalhaven and elsewhere.
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