Gundaroo General Store

Gundaroo
Historic village untouched by modern developments.
Located on the Yass River 28 km south east of Gunning and 34 km north west of Canberra, Gundaroo is a tiny historic village which has been totally by-passed by all the major roads passing through the area.

Europeans came into the area in the early 1820s. They were immediately impressed by 'the beautiful clear plain called by the natives Candariro' (which possibly was the local Aboriginal word for 'blue crane'). The first land grant, a modest 30 acres, was given by Governor Lachlan Macquarie to Peter Cooney. He was soon followed by graziers who saw the plains around the Yass River as being ideal grazing country. For the next couple of decades the whole area was known as Gundaroo.

St Josephs Roman Catholic Church

By the 1840s a small village had emerged. In 1848 a post office was built, the Royal Hotel was completed in the 1860s and by the 1870s Gundaroo was a stopover for goods travelling from the railway at Gunning across country to Queanbeyan. The present general store was built by William Affleck in 1880. Affleck came to dominate town life and over the next few decades was largely responsible for the construction of the Presbyterian church, the bridge over the Yass River and a number of other public buildings.

	Hotels
	Gundaroo Hotel Cork St Gundaroo NSW 2620 Telephone: (06) 236 8125
	Restaurants
	Gundaroo Pub Restaurant Cork St Gundaroo NSW 2620 Telephone: (06) 236 8125