Baerami is a locality in the

Muswellbrook Shire Muswellbrook Shire is a local government area in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is situated adjacent to the New England Highway and the Hunter railway line. Muswellbrook Shire was established on 1 July 1979 f ...

in the Upper Hunter region of

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. The Bylong Valley Way crosses the Baerami Creek via Kirks Bridge at Baerami. Downstream of the bridge, the creek meets its

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with the

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. The area now known as Baerami lies on the traditional lands of

Wonnarua The Wonnarua people, otherwise written Wanarruwa, are a group of Aboriginal Australian people united by strong ties of kinship, and who survived in family groups or clans scattered along the inland area of what is now known as the Upper Hunter ...

people. The name Baerami comes from a large landholding that was subdivided into smaller pieces of land in 1926. The homestead 'Baerami House', built in 1875, still exists. The origin of the word Baerami is likely a settler rendering of an Aboriginal said to mean 'a spear thrower'. The name of Baerami is associated with a deposit of

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, which was reputedly the largest in New South Wales and around twice the size of that at Glen Davis. However, the site where mining occurred lies on Baerami Creek, approximately 25 km south of the road junction that is near the crossing of Baerami Creek at Baerami, in the adjacent locality of Baerami Creek. The Sandy Hollow-Gulgong goods railway line passes through the locality. Points of interest include Baerami Community Hall
James Estate
Dingo Gully, and the ol
Baerami Catholic Church

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{{authority control Suburbs of Muswellbrook Shire

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