Highlands History | The Missingham family settle in to Robertson

Updated August 2 2021 - 12:25pm, first published May 18 2018 - 10:03am

The eastern area of Wingecarribee Shire was not settled until the 1860s, being covered with almost impenetrable rainforest between the Illawarra escarpment and Wingecarribee Swamp. After the Robertson Land Act of 1861, which provided for conditional free selection of Crown Land, settlers took up and cleared the fertile land, known as the Yarrawa Brush. Villages were established at Robertson, Burrawang, Wildes Meadow and East Kangaloon.

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