Great Southern Road - Sally's
Corner.
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 what was once called
"Argle Road". The original road to Goulburn passed south of here
via Penrose, Wingello and Tallong before meeting the current Hume
Highway at Marulan. It is an interesting drive which can still be
followed today. I have no idea why this area is called Sally's
corner, if you know please include it in your logs.
Parking off the road is easy. Please cover cache back up after
signing log...