Abbotsford, New South Wales Aboriginal name Bigi Bigi. The suburb was originally part of Five Dock Farm and when subdivided in 1837, was called Feltham. Sir Arthur Renwick, a doctor, philanthropist and politician built his home here in 1890 and called it Abbotsford House in honour of Sir Walter Scott's home. Renwick sold his property in 1903 to Albert Grace, and in 1918 it became the site of a Nestlé chocolate factory, with the house used initially for chocolate production and later as their administrative offices. The factory was closed in 1991, after which the area was redeveloped as the medium-density Abbotsford Cove housing
On the Banks of Plum Creek and her sister have to quit school because it closed when the grasshoppers arrive. Pa becomes lost near their home during a severe four-day blizzard. The novel ends with the happy family reunited on Christmas Eve. Although Plum Creek (in Redwood County, Minnesota) is near the town of Walnut Grove, the name is not mentioned in the novel. Virginia Kirkus had handled Wilder's debut novel "Little House in the Big Woods" for Harper & Brothers as its book editor from 1926 to 1932. In "Kirkus Reviews", her semi-monthly bulletin from 1933, she awarded this novel a starred review (as she