Baw Baw Parish

Baw baw Parish
New South Wales

location of Baw Baw
LGA(s) Goulburn Mulwaree
County Argyle
Division Eastern

The Parish of Baw baw is a parish of Argyle County, New South Wales, Australia.[1] It is located in to the west of Goulburn, in Goulburn Mulwaree Council at 34°42′54″S, 149°38′04″E.

A village of Baw Baw was surveyed on the banks of the Wollondilly River, but was never constructed.

History

The Baw Baw area was first inhabited by the Gundungurra people,[2][3][4] and by the mid 1840s the NSW colonial government had granted numerous land grants in area, beginning white settlement.

References

  1. ↑ New South Wales Parish maps preservation project Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine..
  2. ↑ Dharag Neighbours.
  3. ↑ Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Goulburn:Aborigines Archived 2006-08-19 at the Wayback Machine., Archive associated with Australia Street project(University of Technology, Sydney, 2006
  4. ↑ Norman Tindall, Gandangara (NSW) Aboriginal Tribes of Australia Archived 2005-07-20 at the Wayback Machine., (South Australian Museum, 2006).

Coordinates: 34°42′54″S 149°38′04″E / 34.71500°S 149.63444°E / -34.71500; 149.63444

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