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Love Lawson Find great things to see and enjoy in Lawson. When the Blue Mountain Inn was opened in 1848, the locals adopted the name Blue Mountain for the village.

One of the first settlements on the eastern slopes of the Blue Mountains, Lawson was identified on early maps as 24 Mile Hollow, a name which was changed to Christmas Swamp for a few years. One of the first settlements on the eastern slopes of the Blue Mountains, Lawson was identified on early maps as 24 Mile Hollowโ€“a name which was changed to Christmas Swamp for a few years. This name was also gi

ven to the original railway station after the rail line was pushed through in 1867. The presence of a Blue Mountain on the Blue Mountains, however, became so confusing to visitors that the authorities stepped in and renamed the village Lawson in honour of William Lawson who, along with William Wentworth and Gregory Blaxland, were the first Europeans to cross the Blue Mountains in 1813. In 1931, the Railway Department agreed to supply electricity to the Blue Mountains Shire Council. Power lines were constructed between Blackheath and Lawson, accompanied by a maintenance track. The authorities then decided to promote the maintenance track as a walking trail; it became known as Bruce's Walk, after the surveyor who planned it. The track later became neglected and forgotten, until it was rediscovered and improved by bushwalkers in the 1980s. It can now be followed from Medlow Bath to the north side of Lawson, although it is not shown on the relevant topographic map.

25/06/2026
25/06/2026

Pop up fundraiser for the Love Lawson Festival on 17 October - @ 9 Honour Avenue Lawson this weekend and next..

LOVE LAWSON FESTIVAL FUND-RAISER this weekend and next at Arts Blue Mountains Gallery, 9 Honour Avenue, Lawson. HUGE col...
25/06/2026

LOVE LAWSON FESTIVAL FUND-RAISER this weekend and next at Arts Blue Mountains Gallery, 9 Honour Avenue, Lawson. HUGE collection of wonderful treasures will go for a song! All in the cause of our next Love Lawson Festival on 17 October. From paintings, pots and plates to a paper shredder, a waffle maker... heaps of fabulous stuff as you can see here. Open 9 to 3 Saturday and Sunday 27/28 June and Saturday 4 July

19/06/2026
LOVE LAWSON FESTIVAL FUND-RAISERWhile the Arts Blue Mountains gallery is currently closed, we will be holding a pop-up f...
17/06/2026

LOVE LAWSON FESTIVAL FUND-RAISER
While the Arts Blue Mountains gallery is currently closed, we will be holding a pop-up fundraiser for the forthcoming Love Lawson Festival (17 October) - the last was in 2006! There will be lots of wonderful bargains to be grabbed, including arts-related so drop by and have a chat and a browse while we're still at 9 Honour Avenue, Lawson
27-28 June and 4 July from 9am to 3pm

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29/04/2026

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HISTORIC SNAPSHOT ~ Cadia Park, Lawson/Bullaburra

Today, all that is left is the Stone Rotunda on the left of the Great Western Highway as you leave Lawson going west.

The house was purchased by Charles Hoskins in 1912. He and his wife made a large garden and kept koalas, wallabies and birds.

Charles Hoskins is better known for the Hoskins Iron and Steel Co. Ltd in Lithgow. Saddened by the deaths of two grown-up daughters, and of his eldest son in 1916 after an explosion at the works, he gave the land and built, for ยฃ50,000, a parish hall and the Hoskins Memorial Church (Presbyterian) at Lithgow, which he did not live to see completed in 1928.

In 1930, the Benedictine Order bought the property and operated it as a monastery. A small cemetery was dedicated at the rear, and three members of the Order were to be buried there. In 1949, the property passed to the Sisters of Saint Joseph, who operated it as a holiday rest home for the Sisters of the Order.

In the additional photo link below, you can see the Rotunda to the right of the photo.

The original house was destroyed following the bushfires of 1977.

Rotunda: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zedmacca/268361531/in/album-72157594325989964/

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In the additional photo link below, you can see the Rotunda on the right.

21/04/2026

DELISH: On Monday, 2 of our contributors enjoyed lunch at The Henry in Lawson. They enjoyed Chicken Schnitzel and Chicken Parmi ๐Ÿ˜‹
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