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The museum building was originally a large department store built in 1910 for A. H. Mackie and Company. The owners and directors of the museum are Geoff and Kerrie Ford, who have been awarded the Order of Australia Medal for "service to the arts, particularly the study of early Australian pottery, and to the community."
Holbrook is a small town in Southern New South Wales, Australia. It is on the Hume Highway , 384 kilometres (239 mi) by road North East of Melbourne [ 2 ] and 492 kilometres (306 mi) by road south-west of Sydney [ 3 ] between Tarcutta and Albury .
According to the 2013 NSW Museum and Gallery Sector Census and Survey conducted by Museums & Galleries of NSW, a state funded support agency, there were 495 operational museums and galleries located in NSW in that year. They include 293 community-run and -managed museums, 57 public and regional galleries, 51 public and regional museums, 37 ...
Greater Hume Shire is a local government area in the Riverina region of southern New South Wales, Australia. [4] The Shire was formed in 2004 incorporating Culcairn Shire, the majority of Holbrook Shire and part of Hume Shire. The shire had an estimated population of 10,137 as at 2012. [5]
The Old Hume Highway, an urban and rural road, may be described as any part of an earlier route of the Hume Highway, which traverses Victoria and New South Wales between the cities of Sydney and Melbourne in Australia. In some places, the highway has been deviated several times since the first rough track was made between Sydney and Melbourne ...
The Billabong Creek, a partly perennial stream [1] of the Murray River catchment within the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. At 320 kilometres (200 mi) (with some estimates ranging up to 596 kilometres (370 mi) [ 4 ] ), Billabong Creek is believed to be the longest creek in the world.
1886 map of Goulburn county. Goulburn County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It contains the city of Albury, and the towns of Jindera, Bowna and Woomargama. Goulburn County was named in honour of the statesman, Henry Goulburn (1784-1856). [1]
Olympic Highway is a 317-kilometre (197 mi) rural road in the central western and south-eastern Riverina regions of New South Wales, Australia.It services rural communities, links Hume Highway with Mid-Western Highway, and provides part of an alternate road link between Sydney and Albury via Bathurst and Cowra as well as servicing Wagga Wagga, linking with Sturt Highway.