GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 9 - VENTURING WEST - BATHURST FIRST SETTLEMENT WEST OF THE DIVIDE Map of the Cox Road to Bathurst from Sydney through the Blue Mountains with Historical information

Gold Rush Stories - Part 9 - Venturing West - Bathurst; First Settlement West of the Divide

View from top of Mt Panorama race circuit in Bathurst GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 9 - VENTURING WEST - BATHURST; FIRST SETTLEMENT WEST OF THE DIVIDE

The Australian colonies were no longer seen as places of convict exile; they were respectable destinations for immigrants and investment.

A road was commissioned in 1813 to be built from Emu Plains the most westerly staging- post from Sydney at the time. The settler population was a mere 14,086 when a 163klm road was carved up and over the Blue Mountains to the Bathurst Plains, the site of the colony’s first settlement west of the divide with the establishment of Bathurst in 1814.

 

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References

https://livingartlifestyle.com/blogs/lawson-son-of-a-suffragette/lawson-son-of-a-suffragette-part-2-setting-the-scene-the-backstory-origins-of-a-nation 
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A polymathic touring musician, film maker, historian and producer, for the past 8 years Kieran Wicks has navigated the Great Southern Land of Australia performing hundreds of shows to ravenous audiences, whilst simultaneously developing a vast catalogue of interviews, images and videos in the production of multiple formative docuseries including 'One Town at a Time', which records his musical journey, immersed in poignant, forgotten Australian history and poetry, in archives such as 'Gold Rush Stories' and 'Poetry of the Pioneers'.

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