Great Southern Road -
Bowning.
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 on the outskirts of Bowning, a town that time has
forgotten as the highway now bypasses the town. make sure to head
into town and observe the way the old main road winds it's way
though town...