Its primary purpose is to serve the residents of the City of Hawkesbury.
Hawkesbury is also located along Prescott and Russell County Road 17, a former routing of Highway 17 and the Trans-Canada Highway.
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3 July – Following Aboriginal attacks on farms in the Hawkesbury region, Hunter dispatches a party of soldiers from the New South Wales Corps to protect settlers there.
In January 1886, the Union Bridge Company from New York was awarded the contract to build a railway bridge across the Hawkesbury River.
The landform of the area is on Canoelands Ridge, a high, undulating, dissected plateau of Hawkesbury Sandstone with many steep gullies covered with dry sclerophyll forest, predominantly tall varieties of hardwood trees of the genus Eucalyptus.
Hawkesbury Radio was the only Community Radio Station in Australia to have Broadcast rights of NRL which featured Penrith Panthers NRL matches, from 1997 to 2009.
Artists William Piguenit and Arthur Streeton painted the Hawkesbury River in the late 19th century.
Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS Hawkesbury after the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales.
Its closed and former facilities are Niagara Mill, located in Niagara, Wisconsin (closed in 2008), Kimberly Mill, located in Kimberly, Wisconsin (closed in 2009), Chillicothe Mill, located in Chillicothe, Ohio (sold in 2006 to Glatfelter; still operational, Port Hawkesbury Mill, located in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia (closed in 2011; re-opened in 2012 by Stern Partners as Port Hawkesbury Paper) and Whiting Mill, located in Whiting, Wisconsin (closed in 2011).
Although the road continues through the towns of Rockland and Hawkesbury to the Quebec border, the portion east of the Ottawa city boundary is known as Prescott and Russell County Road 17.
Sackville Reach, a portion of the Hawkesbury River, was named after Viscount Sackville (1716-1785) in the early years of European settlement.