Baw Baw Parish
| Baw baw Parish New South Wales | |
|---|---|
 location of Baw Baw | |
| LGA(s) | Goulburn Mulwaree |
| County | Argyle |
| Division | Eastern |
The Parish of Baw baw is a parish of Argyle County, New South Wales, Australia.[1] 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
The Baw Baw 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).
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