Parish of Wologorong

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

Wologorong Parish New South Wales
LGA(s)	Goulburn Mulwaree
County	Argyle
Division	Eastern
Lands administrative divisions around Wologorong Parish: Milbang Bredalbane Goulburn Milbang Wologorong Parish Terranna Milbang Tarago h Mangamore

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. The locality of Wollogorang is partly located in Wologorong Parish and partly in Tarago Parish.

History

The Wologorong 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

1. New South Wales Parish maps preservation project Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
2. Robert McLean, The New atlas of Australia : the complete work containing over one hundred maps and full descriptive geography of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, together with numerous illustrations and copious indices (Sydney :J. Sands, [1886) Map 11.
3. Dharag Neighbours Archived 8 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
4. Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Goulburn:Aborigines Archived 19 August 2006 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 Tindale, Gandangara (NSW) Aboriginal Tribes of Australia Archived 20 July 2005 at the Wayback Machine, (South Australian Museum, 2006).

External links

• "Wologorong". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 August 2013.

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