Great Southern Road -
Yanderra.
The Main Roads Management Act of June 1858 declared the Great
Southern Road, from near Sydney through Goulburn and Gundagai to
Albury, as one of the three main roads in the colony. Today we know
it as the Hume Highway, named after Hamilton Hume the traveling
partner of William Hovell on there overland journey from Appin
(near Campbelltown)to Port Phillip and return in 1824.
Over the years the road has had a few name changes and seen many
realignments, some minor and some major with entire towns being
bypassed and the section of the route north of Marulan being
totally different to today's Hume Highway. So I thought that I
would do a series of caches based on the old sections of the Hume
Highway and the Great Southern Road.
This cache is located at the point where the original alignment
of the Great Southern Road cross's the current Hume Highway. North
of this point the original Great Southern Road travels to the west
of the current Hume Highway through towns like Bargo and Picton.
South of this point the original alignment travels to the East of
the current Hume Highway through towns like Mittagong and
Bowral.
Please cover cache back up after signing log...
Do not under any
circumstances think of doing this one by stopping on the freeway,
use the supplied way points to leave the freeway and travel to the
cache..