We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an inc...
Classic country hall, hope they still use it. My you find some places with unbelievable names.
ReplyDeleteI am here because of that name. Well to add my comment about it. I want to teach words like that to Alannah. She knows kookaburra, kangaroo, cockatoo, platypus, lorikeet, and currawong. Now to things like Bullamakanka ... and Cookamidgera fits right in there.
ReplyDeleteMandagery is actually quite a bit bigger than this. Because we live on farms, houses are far apart. I live here and my neighbour is more than a kilometre away. We still use the hall, for the annual Christmas tree celebration, the kids play games and sing songs, while the adults man the BBQ, and drink beer, Santa comes on the 8 pm train, to give presents to the kids. It is not used so much any more as the children are growing up. The bus run will stop in a few years, as the few of us remaining are in high school in different towns.
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