The Parish of Baw Baw is a parish of Argyle County, New South Wales, Australia.New South Wales Parish maps preservation project . It is located in to the west of Goulburn, in Goulburn Mulwaree Council at 34°42′54″S, 149°38′04″E.
A village of Baw Baw was surveyed on the banks of the Wollondilly River, but was never constructed.
History The Baw Baw area was first inhabited by the Gundungurra people,Dharag Neighbours .Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, Goulburn:Aborigines , Archive associated with Australia Street project (University of Technology, Sydney, 2006Norman Tindall, Gandangara (NSW) Aboriginal Tribes of Australia , (South Australian Museum, 2006). and by the mid 1840s the NSW colonial government had granted numerous land grants in area, beginning white settlement.
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