Gandangara

===Burragorang Valley mission and "The Gully"===

===Burragorang Valley mission and "The Gully"===

[[File:William Russell, Gandangara elder.png|thumb|William Russell, Gandangara elder]]

[[File:William Russell, Gandangara elder.png|thumb|William Russell, Gandangara elder]]

In 1877, many of the remnant population of the Gandangara who lived around the Wollondilly, Coxs Rivers, Picton and [[The Oaks, New South Wales|The Oaks]] were gathered together by Reverend George Dillon and placed on a mission in the [[Burragorang Valley]]. It was called the St Joseph's Aboriginal Settlement located at the junction of the Cox and Wollondilly Rivers (which is now underneath [[Lake Burragorang]] due to the development of the [[Warragamba Dam]] in the mid-20th century). Around 60 Gandangara men, women and children resided there and received an English style education, Catholic religious instruction and worked the adjacent farm owned by the church.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70616853 |title=Aboriginal Settlement of St. Joseph, Burragorang. |newspaper=[[Australian Town And Country Journal]] |volume=XVII, |issue=424 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=23 February 1878 |accessdate=11 July 2025 |page=39 |via=National Library of Australia}}

In 1877, many of the remnant population of the Gandangara who lived around the Wollondilly, Coxs Rivers, Picton and [[The Oaks, New South Wales|The Oaks]] were gathered together by Reverend George Dillon and placed on a mission in the [[Burragorang Valley]]. It was called the St Joseph's Aboriginal Settlement located at the junction of the Cox and Wollondilly Rivers (which is now underneath [[Lake Burragorang]] due to the development of the [[Warragamba Dam]] in the mid-20th century). Around 60 Gandangara men, women and children resided there and received an English style education, Catholic religious instruction and worked the adjacent farm owned by the church.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70616853 |title=Aboriginal Settlement of St. Joseph, Burragorang. |newspaper=[[Australian Town And Country Journal]] |volume=XVII |issue=424 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=23 February 1878 |accessdate=11 July 2025 |page=39 |via=National Library of Australia}}

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