An Old Selection, Burragorang Valley, New South Wales

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TitleAn Old Selection, Burragorang Valley, New South WalesDescriptionFrom Wikipedia
In 1827, the town of Burragorang was established as a mining town and up to the 1960s was a major supplier of coal.[1] Moreover, lead and silver had also been mined in the valley until about 1927.
Burragorang means place to hunt kangaroo in the Gundungurra people's language.

With the boom of Sydney's population after World War II, Warragamba Dam was constructed between 1948 and 1960[2] on the Warragamba River, inundating the Burragorang Valley, creating Lake Burragorang. Consequently, the town of Burragorang and others like it in the valley were lost under water.[1]

The area around Burragorang and Nattai had been home to numerous collieries from the 1920s to the 1990s, such as the Nattai-Bulli, Oakleigh, Wollondlly, Nattai North and Valley collieries. It is estimated 72 million tonnes of coal was mined in the Burragorang-Nattai region.[1] The area also had deposits of oil shale, and some mining of shale occurred.[3][4]

A Selection is a piece of subdivided land chosen for agriculture and dates back to colonial land acts passed in the mid-late 1800sDate1926TechniqueEtchingCreatorThomas FreidensenDimensions25 x 30CategoryArt | Alec Cato Collection

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An Old Selection, Burragorang Valley, New South Wales