住宿信息
Valentine Shopping Village
The shops are located in Allambee Place, you will find a bottle shop and liquor store, Foodworks for your groceries, Valentine Butcher's, Wildbean Cafe for fish, chips and Hambers, Chemist,
Valentine Bowling Club
This is located right on the water front.
Bennett Park
Is located in Dilkera Avenue Valentine. This is located on the waters
周边信息
It is a large residential district, with large-scale development commencing in the late 1980s. Valentine is home to number of convenience and specialty shops, including a butcher, post office, GP office, petrol station, newsagent and a bowling club.
The Awabakal people were the first people of this area.[2]
Valentine was named after Mr Henry Valentine Joseph Geary, a property speculator and company director who grew up in Melbourne, Victoria, and settled in NSW after 1909, speculating in mining. He owned land in Valentine, but lived on the Hawkesbury River, and died there in 1933. Henry Halloran, a surveyor who surveyed the area in 1916, named the area after him. He was also responsible for surveying many of the suburbs in Sydney, including Seaforth.[3]
Coal was mined near Valentine by the Hartley Company in the mid-1800s. The name of "Hartley Point" at the Western end of Dilkera Avenue, facing Toronto, is a nod to the original coal mining venture from the 1800s which went bankrupt after the sinking of both of its coal ships at the lake's treacherous entrance in the 1860s. The first house was built by Mr Thomas Croudace in the 1860s adjacent to the park on Valentine Crescent, and s