Captain John Lloyd, RN, acquired land in 1844 with his severance pay when he left the Royal Navy, and built "The Grange" on the hill near the river. At about that time he invited the family of Syms Covington to move there. Covington had joined the second survey expedition of HMS "Beagle" as a fiddler and cabin boy. He became an assistant and manservant to Charles Darwin during the voyage and for a few years afterwards before emigrating to Australia. In 1854 he became Postmaster of Pambula, and managed an inn called the "Forest Oak Inn" which still stands at a bend on the coast road.