The Goulburn Story - The Making of a City is a wide-ranging history, the good and the bad times, the colourful characters, and a legacy of outstanding heritage-listed architecture.
It's the story of the First Nations people the Ngunnawal and Gandangara, explorers, pioneers and settlers, bushrangers, the gold rush.
It's the story of the wild colonial era - the establishment and brutal enforcement of law and order, the horror of the execution of two women for the murder of their husbands; the Towrang Stockade and today's SuperMax prison.
It looks at how the railway powered Goulburn as an important regional agricultural and industrial economy, including its place as a major educational centre.
The Goulburn Story reveals why Goulburn, the first inland city, was declared a city twice - once by an 'Act of God', and later by an Act of Parliament.
It's the story of how, at the turn of the 20th century, Goulburn was being considered as the nation's Federal Capital, of its leading role on the Suffragette movement to give women the right to vote, and the importance of women such as local author Miles Franklin and 'The Emigrant's Friend' Caroline Chisholm.
The Goulburn Story reflects on the way this community is at the frontline in commemorating and preserving the memory of the service and sacrifice of thousands of local men and women in conflicts throughout the world, the iconic Rocky Hill War Memorial, the Goulburn Mulwaree Honour Roll and the Mulwaree High School's Remembrance Museum and Avenue of Trees which honours the district's fallen service men and women.
It recalls the parallels of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic and how it affected the Goulburn district where 42 people died.
The Goulburn Story is a story of the past, the present and the future, the role that the past has in its future as it preserves, promotes and celebrates its rich, colourful history, and outstanding colonial architecture.

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