Category: Southern Highlands
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Mittagong Mushroom Tunnel
Mittagong Mushroom Tunnel Nestled beneath Mount Gibraltar near Mittagong in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales is a Victorian-era single-track railway tunnel that today houses racks of cultivated exotic fungi. The Mittagong Mushroom Tunnel (sometimes called the Mount Gibraltar tunnel) is a surviving piece of 19th-century railway engineering that has had at least three Read more
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Berrima New South Wales
Berrima New South Wales Located in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Berrima is an historic town with many convict era buildings still intact. now bypassed by the Hume Highway, it has shrunk from its height of the mid 1800s when it had 14 pubs. It does however claim to have the longest continually Read more
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Tumut New South Wales Australia
History of Tumut Tumut is a historic town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, nestled at the foothills of the Snowy Mountains. Originally inhabited by the Wiradjuri people, Tumut’s European history began in the early 19th century, with settlement beginning around the 1830s. Its name is derived from an Aboriginal word thought to Read more