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The history of Braidwood, New South Wales in Australia dates back to the early nineteenth century. The historic nature of the town has been recognised with the listing of the entire town on the former Register of the National Estate on 21 October 1980 and the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 3 April 2006.
Braidwood is a town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in Queanbeyan–Palerang Regional Council. [2] [3] It is located on the Kings Highway linking Canberra with Batemans Bay. It is approximately 200 kilometres south west of Sydney, 60 kilometres inland from the coast, and 55 kilometres east of Canberra. Braidwood is a ...
Braidwood District Historical Society Museum is a heritage-listed former hotel and Oddfellows Hall and now museum located on Wallace Street, Braidwood, in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. The property is owned by Braidwood Historical Society. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April ...
Bedervale is a heritage-listed colonial homestead in Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia.The house was designed by John Verge and was completed in 1842.. Bedervale is owned privately and the homestead's contents were purchased by the National Trust of Australia (NSW) to maintain the interior collection.
Such a road would have connected the area south of Braidwood, and perhaps as far away as Queanbeyan and the Limestone Plains, to a rival seaport on the coast. [66] [67] The road needed regular maintenance work and repair, especially after wet weather, to keep it open. Money became short when New South Wales entered an economic depression in the ...
The Mill Complex is a heritage-listed historic site at Wallace Street, Braidwood, Queanbeyan-Palerang Region, New South Wales, Australia. It was formerly known as the Mill Centre. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. [1]
John and Thomas Clarke in Braidwood Gaol, May 1867. Thomas (right) is shot in the arm. The Clarke gang was a group of bushrangers active in the mid-1860s in the southern goldfields of New South Wales, Australia. The membership of the gang fluctuated over time, the two core members being brothers Thomas and John Clarke, from the Braidwood district.
The explorer and navigator George Bass found the entrance to the Shoalhaven River during his whaleboat voyage down the south coast of New South Wales in 1797. He gave the name Shoals Haven to the river (now known as the Crookhaven River) because of the shoals of mud and sand he found at the river mouth.