Great Southern Road - Towrang 2.
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 travelling 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 todays 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 a rare chance to walk the same road that Stage Coaches once travelled. It is one of the very few sections where the original road can be seen, also you can see three differant allignments of the road at once.
From the listed co-ordinates go to WP listed as "Bridge" below and work out GZ as follows:
A= the stage the conservations works are at.
B= the thrird number in the key stone.
C= the fourth number in the key stone.
GZ is S34 44.27A E149 49.CBB
From the bridge you can walk up to GZ along the 1839 alignment of the Great Sountern Road and then after finding the cache walk back down the more modern alignment. As you walk back to your start point you will notice some very faded yellow lines on the road. Another reminded of the old road.