.Great Southern Road -
Glenfield.
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 traveling
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 today's 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.
In 1886 the town of Glenfield was subdivided and sold off. See
below for an interesting map of the area. You will notice a number
of things, the first of which it is drawn upside down compared to
todays maps (North should be towards the top of the page). But
apart from that you will notice that the Great Southern Road was
once a boundry of Glenfield. If you lived out here at the end of
the 19th Centuary, you were well and truely on the edge of the
Sydney suburban sprawl.
Those of you with a keen sense of observation will also notice
that Glenfield now appears to be Casula?? Not sure how that
happened.
Please note how the log and plastic baggy are folded so as to
ensure easy removal. Please replace exactly as found!
Please use the supplied way
points to drive to the cache..