Wologorong Parish
| Wologorong Parish New South Wales | |||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Goulburn Mulwaree | ||||||||||||
| County | Argyle | ||||||||||||
| Division | Eastern | ||||||||||||
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The Parish of Wologorong is a parish of Argyle County, New South Wales, Australia.[1] Both the Federal Highway and the Hume Highway, pass through the parish, with their intersection just outside the north east corner of the parish south of Goulburn. A significant natural feature of the parish is the Wollogorang Lagoon (spelled differently from the parish name). Wollogorang Road and Thornford Road are other roads in the area.
History
The Wologorong 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
- ↑ New South Wales Parish maps preservation project.
- ↑ Dharag Neighbours.
- ↑ Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Goulburn:Aborigines, Archive associated with Australia Street project(University of Technology, Sydney, 2006
- ↑ Norman Tindall, Gandangara (NSW) Aboriginal Tribes of Australia, (South Australian Museum, 2006).
- "Wologorong". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
Coordinates: 34°50′S 149°33′E / 34.833°S 149.550°E
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