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Lockhart (LOCALITY), NSW Details
History
Originally known as Greens Gunyah renamed Lockhart 1897. Greens Gunyah so named because a Mr Green was the earliest settler and had a grog shop there on the Urana-Wagga Wagga stagecoach route.
Description
A locality on Brookong Creek and The Rock-Oaklands Railway Line about 16 km SE of Boree Creek and about 65 km SW of Wagga. Boundaries within the Lockhart Council area shown on map GNB3780. Boundaries within the Wagga Wagga Council area shown on map GNB3814.
Origin
C.G.N. Lockhart - a commissioner for Crown Lands in the Murrumbidgee area in the 1850s. (p 94 Billabidgee-Urana by W.A. Bayley)
Lockhart (LOCALITY), NSW
| title | Lockhart (LOCALITY) |
| additional | |
| state | NSW |
| reference | 34094 |
| placename | Lockhart |
| designation | LOCALITY |
| geographical name | |
| previous names | Greens Gunyah |
| lga | LOCKHART |
| description | A locality on Brookong Creek and The Rock-Oaklands Railway Line about 16 km SE of Boree Creek and about 65 km SW of Wagga. Boundaries within the Lockhart Council area shown on map GNB3780. Boundaries within the Wagga Wagga Council area shown on map GNB3814. |
| meaning | |
| origin | C.G.N. Lockhart - a commissioner for Crown Lands in the Murrumbidgee area in the 1850s. (p 94 Billabidgee-Urana by W.A. Bayley) |
| history | Originally known as Greens Gunyah renamed Lockhart 1897. Greens Gunyah so named because a Mr Green was the earliest settler and had a grog shop there on the Urana-Wagga Wagga stagecoach route. |
