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14 December 2024
Hume and Hovell bicentenary passes without fanfare

By JEFF STARKEY

IT has been walked around, run past and occasionally stared at, but mostly ignored. For 100 years, it has stood like a silent sentinel watching the hundreds of vehicles travel over ‘Burtons Bridge’, staring down a bitumen road which was once known by locals as the Hume Highway or the Old Sydney Road.

On a mild Thursday in November 1924, the scene at the cairn was vastly diffe...

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