Cowra, NSW, Australia, Pop 9500
S 33° 50.124 E 148° 39.384
55H E 653267 N 6254860
Cowra, population 9500.
Waymark Code: WMR1Y0
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 04/30/2016
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Cowra is a town in the Central West of NSW on the banks of the Lachlan River in the Lachlan Valley. Cowra is approximately 310 km from Sydney and is situated at the intersection of three major state highways the Mid-Western Highway, Olympic Highway and the Lachlan Valley Way.
The first explorer, George William Evans, entered the Lachlan Valley in 1815. He named the area the Oxley Plains after his superior the surveyor-general, John Oxley. In 1817 he deemed the area "unfit for settlement". A military depot was established not long after at Soldiers Flat near present-day Billimari. Arthur Ranken and James Sloan, from Bathurst, were amongst the first white settlers on the Lachlan. They moved to the area in 1831.
The township of "Coura Rocks" had its beginnings in 1844. Around 1847, the township site became known as Cowra, and in 1849, was proclaimed a village.
Address: Mid Western Highway
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