Sassafras: The Parish Of Sixty Farms

The story of the Post Town at Sassafras Mountain on the old Wool Road in the County of St. Vincent.

"The Parish of Sixty Farms is a history of the post town established at Sassafras Mountain on the Pigeon House Range on the old Wood Road between Nerriga and Jervis Bay. This colourful story of early European settlement is told within a regional setting beginning with the Aborigines who occupied the coastal mountains and ranges of southern N.S.W. for some 19,000 years prior to the influx of the Europeans. It traces the early exploration of the southern tablelands and the development of Wool Road, built in 1840 to provide goods and services and access from inland districts to the sea port at Jervis Bay."