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Parish of Baw Baw

Coordinates: 34°42′54″S 149°38′04″E / 34.71500°S 149.63444°E / -34.71500; 149.63444
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Baw baw Parish
New South Wales
location of Baw Baw
LGA(s)Goulburn Mulwaree
CountyArgyle
DivisionEastern

The Parish of Baw Baw is a parish of Argyle County, New South Wales, Australia.[1][2] 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

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The Baw Baw area was first inhabited by the Gundungurra people,[3][4][5] and by the mid 1840s the NSW colonial government had granted numerous land grants in area, beginning white settlement.

References

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  1. ^ New South Wales Parish maps preservation project Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ "NSW Parishes — MapLover". Archived from the original on 26 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  3. ^ Dharag Neighbours Archived 8 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Goulburn:Aborigines Archived 2006-08-19 at the Wayback Machine, Archive associated with Australia Street project Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine(University of Technology, Sydney, 2006
  5. ^ Norman Tindall, Gandangara (NSW) Aboriginal Tribes of Australia Archived 2005-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, (South Australian Museum, 2006).

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