Great Southern Road -
Goulburn.
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 Sothern Road.
This cache is located on an old section of the Hume Highway South
of Goulburn. There is only one access point (see below) which can
be used by North and South bound cachers. Whilst acessing the cache
you will experiance three differant generations of the Great South
Road. The current version is the Hume Highway as it exists today,
the second one is the road that cross's the Sydney to Melboune
railway line and the third is an original section of the Great
South Road. As you will see each road is increasingly smaller.
Please cover cache back up after signing log...