Boydtown is a village on
Twofold Bay
Twofold Bay is an open oceanic embayment that is located in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.
The bay was named by George Bass, for its shape of two bights. The northern bight is called Calle Calle Bay; while the southern ...
near
Eden, on the
far south coast of
New South Wales
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,
Australia
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. It was the original settlement in the bay, founded by
Benjamin Boyd
Benjamin Boyd (21 August 180115 October 1851) was a Scotland, Scottish entrepreneur who became a major shipowner, banker, Squatting (Australia), grazier, politician and Blackbirding, blackbirder in the British colony of New South Wales. He wa ...
in 1843 to service his properties on the
Monaro plains.
The remains of whaling stations and the local landmark Boyd's Tower, a stone spotting tower used to look for whales, are all nearby.
Boyd imported sandstone from Sydney to construct a lighthouse on south head. He also commissioned inns and churches, housing and store rooms, wharves and stock-yards.
When Boyd's finances collapsed, the town was abandoned from the 1840s until the first renovation of the Seahorse Inn in the 1930s.
In modern times, Boydtown is the smaller of the two towns in the bay, consisting mainly of housing, tourist caravan parks and the more recently (2006) refurbished Seahorse Inn.
See also
*
Beowa National Park
Beowa National Park, formerly Ben Boyd National Park, is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, south of Sydney. It was established in 1971 and officially renamed in 2022 owing to its previous namesake's connection with blackbirding. ' ...
References
External links
The Seahorse Inn
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Towns in New South Wales
Towns in the South Coast (New South Wales)
1843 establishments in Australia
Bega Valley Shire
Coastal towns in New South Wales
Whaling stations in Australia