Great Southern Road - Yass.
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 their 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 Southern Road.
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Yass was bypassed in 1994 when 19kms of the old Hume Highway became the Yass Valley Way. The cache is hidden in an area that used to be known as "Gasoline alley".
When the highway passed by this way there were four service stations all next to each other here, so competition for your petrol dollar ensured some of the cheapest fuel between Melbourne and Sydney. Have a good look around and you will see the remains of some of these service stations. The one in front of the cache is obvious, the others not so obvious.