Milbrodale, New South Wales

Eventually, Governor Lachlan Macquarie gave him a land grant of 1,200 acres (4.9 km2) in the Hunter Valley.

After journeying along a track that was the beginning of the Great North Road, Hill arrived in the Hunter Valley and built a stone house at the junction of Wollombi Brook and Parsons Creek.

[4] The most significant feature of Milbrodale is an eighty-hectare site containing rock shelters with many signs of Aboriginal occupation.

Excavations carried out by staff from the Australian Museum, Sydney, produced much evidence of the "Small Tool Phase" of Aboriginal history.

One of the main features is a rock shelter popularly known as Baiame Cave, which contains a group of Aboriginal paintings.