Crooked Corner is a locality on the road from
Bigga, New South Wales
Bigga is a village in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in Upper Lachlan Shire. It is in the Parish of Bigga, County of Georgiana. The name Bigga is thought to originate as a shortened version of the Biggs Grant. Bigga is ...
to
Binda, New South Wales
Binda is a village in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia in Upper Lachlan Shire.
It is about 17 km north-north-west of Crookwell in the county of Georgiana. Other near-by towns or locations are:
* Crooked Corner ...
, which was once a town. At the , it had a population of 61.
Alluvial gold was found there, in 1861, and reef gold, in 1871. In the late 1880s another reef was found to the east of the old alluvial workings, and the Palmer Gold and Silver Mining Company set up a battery there in 1888.
The Five Mile Tree public school operated there from 1892 to 2009.
References
Upper Lachlan Shire
Localities in New South Wales
Southern Tablelands
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