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Exploring what remains of NSW's chief convict camp

Summary by region.com.au
The Towrang Stockade. Photo: James Coleman. Carving out the first road between Sydney and Melbourne took years of hard slogging – fortunately, NSW had just the workforce to do it. Just north of Goulburn on the Hume Highway is what remains of the Towrang Stockade, the ‘chief penal camp’ for the state in the mid-1800s. Up to 250 convict men were housed here, charged with constructing the section of the ‘Great South Road’ between Sydney and Goulbur…
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region.com.au broke the news in on Saturday, August 16, 2025.
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