Our History | Of bridges and crossings

By Susan O'Leary
Updated April 11 2019 - 12:50pm, first published 12:25pm

Following the footsteps of travellers and early settlers, a variety of tracks and places were used to cross the Yass River. One was Flat Rock Crossing, which is still in use today. Horsemen to Port Phillip rode along Rossi Street past Laidlaw's grave and the cemetery crossing where the river began to go south again and onto Bookham. Another crossing was at the foot of Dutton Street near the old tramway bridge. A track to Goulburn went from the town boundary between Hovell and O'Brien Streets using Flat Rock Crossing through Yass town.

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