This inset is taken from a copy of the 1849 surveyor's plan for the village of Wagga Wagga,
[The copy was made by the NSW Central Mapping Authority, NSW Department of Lands, 1986, from an original held by NSW State Archives and Records Authority.]
In May and June 2018, "Captured: Portraits of Crime 1870-1930" was on exhibit at Charles Sturt University Regional Archives in Wagga Wagga. This exhibition from State Archives NSW explored the stories of men, women and children incarcerated in NSW…
The Wagga Wagga Gaol, built in the 1860s by Charles Hardy, was demolished in 1919, but had fallen into a dilapidated state after it was condemned in 1916.
A new police station was built on the site (on the corner of Tarcutta and Sturt Streets) in…