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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.
Hawdon was born at Wackerfield (near Staindrop), Durham, England, prematurely, on 29 June 1801.His father was also named John and his mother was Elizabeth (née Hunt). His father, John Hawdon (1770—1845), was described as a 'yeoman', indicating that he came from a social stratum above a free-born labourer but was not a member of the gentry.
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.
Braidwood was formerly the seat of the Tallaganda local government area. However, following restructuring of local government areas by the New South Wales Government, it is now part of Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council. The local paper is now called the Braidwood Times. Through much of the 20th century, Braidwood was essentially in rural ...
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 ...
From July 1837 to end June 1840, in just three years of his lengthy surveying career, Larmer alone had surveyed 160,443 acres, out of a total of 875,089 acres of land that was surveyed [51] and so taken from its traditional owners. The best land for cropping, grazing, and other agricultural purposes was also the most bountiful land for ...
In 1829, William Tarlington (1804—1893), with three Aboriginal guides, starting at Braidwood, followed the rivers into the Bega Valley, where he found good land and later settled as a squatter at Cobargo. Like other Braidwood landholders, Elrington took up two blocks there, as a squatter, in the early 1830s, but he did not settle there.
The area now known as Majors Creek lies on the traditional lands of Walbanga people, a group of Yuin. [7] Probably due to reasons such as finding a viable means of sustenance, most of the surviving Aborigines living in the goldfields around Braidwood, migrated toward the coast—also Walbanga country—in the later years of the 19th-century.