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Home > Travelogues > 2017 Travelogues Index > New South Wales - Gateway to Wellington

New South Wales - Gateway to Wellington

Trains pulled by horses through the Macquarie River before the railway bridge was built (above).

Cobb and Co
The duel: The last duel in Australia, held outside the Lion of Waterloo Pub in 1854
A mosaic depicting the history of Wellington (at left) on the wall.  Some of the mosaics shown in more detail hereunder.
Entitled 'The Wellington Dance', this complex mosaic represents the many different cultures that have enriched Wellington (at right). 

The Wellington Bridge falls down in 1989

A map of our town, depicted in mosaic, on the wall.  Oxley Museum 1885, St Andrew's 1907,

St Patrick’s 1914, St John's 1887

A Road to Somewhere; footprints collected from babies at the Wellington Health Centre (at left). 

 

 

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Signage on site

Wellington – Gateway to Wellington

Aussie Towns – Wellington

Environment – Heritage

Water NSW – Burrendong Dam

The Circle of Life (above).
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The 1955 flood

The Gold Rush 1889 - 1954 (below).
John Oxley; explorer 

Burrendong Dam started December 1994.  (Construction of the dam started in 1946, but was not completed until 1967)

Join our continuing tour of New South Wales, when see snow at Mount Canobolas (a rare treat for Western Australians).

 

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The Wello Boot; the annual horse race held every March (at right).
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