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This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.Yass is a town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Yass Valley Shire.The name appears to have been derived from an Aboriginal word, "Yarrh" (or "Yharr"), said to mean 'running water'.Yass is located about 280 km southwest of Sydney, on the Hume Highway.The Yass River, which is a tributary of the Murrumbidgee River, flows past the town.Yass is 56km from Canberra.It is popular with tourists, some from Canberra and others taking a break from the Hume Highway.Yass Court House designed by Colonial Architect, James Barnet.Yass was incorporated as a District Council in 1843, and boasted a population of 274 by 1848.On 13 March 1873, the Municipal District of Yass was created, and James Cottrell was subsequently elected as the first Mayor of Yass.Poet and priest Patrick Hartigan (pen name: John O'Brien) was born near Yass in 1878 and he studied at the local convent school as a youth.Yass is a prominent area for raising sheep which produce very fine wool due to the soil and climatic conditions of the Yass area.Yass was one of the sites proposed for the Federal Capital after 1901.Railways at Yass
Yass was later a battleground between the town and the Sydney to Melbourne railway; because of the topography the New South Wales Government Railways wanted to bypass the town by a few kilometres.Naturally, the people of the town wished the railway to pass closer or through it.In 1892, a light railway or tram was built to connect Yass Junction on the main line and Yass Town.Yass had the nearest railway station on the Sydney Melbourne railway to serve the national capital at Canberra.Instead of catching the inaugural train at Sydney, he had to catch it at Yass Junction, where it made a special stop.The architect for the church was architects Fowell Mansfield and Maclurcan of Sydney.Yass Tourist Information Centre, Printed June, 2000.External links
Whitehurst Yass Photographic Collection by R.Yass Antique Farm Machinery Club Inc.There will be 2 sleds in operation, featuring
Vintage tractors from the past, a grudge match between a large bullock team and
a tractor.TO BE FILLED OUT AND FAXED FOR THIS EVENT AS THERE MAY BE A CUT
OFF.Be welcome, if this is the first time you visit this site, the About YASS page might be a good place to start for you.There you will find information about what YASS is and what it will be.This starting page is split up into two groups: one more often updated section about the ongoing development and the other about other and bigger news.We also have a forum with guest posting possible where you can ask questions or just tell us about anything you want.No this time its for real...We are really sad to announce that deathmatch will not be contained in the upcoming techdemo.We are still heading for the release of Techdemo III.We make progress and we aim at a release in this month, when network code is fully implemented and everything is beta tested.We ran into some serious technical problems and have to face the fact that we are not able to achieve in our spare time the goals we set to ourselves.What we tried to achieve is propably just to big for 2 hobby programmers.We thank you for your interest in our work and if anybody is interested in the source code of YASS just leave your email address in the forum.So this is the YASS development team signing off, best of luck to all of you.The spam bots got smarter again, therefore the guest postings in our forum are disabled.Our Forum has been revived with some additional insight views into the development progress and is currently, while we are heading to a TD III release, heavily used (for our measures).So these are good reasons to register and participate.We set up a Development Progress Forum, where you can track the development of the Techdemo III as we come nearer to release.Since today it is visible to the public, but keep in mind that you have to be a registered member to actually write a post in this sub forum.In fact registration is just a matter of 2 minutes at all...Techdemo III so that you can get a picture of development progress.Happy New Year 2008 to all of you!!!The town of Yass lies 78kms west of Goulburn and 60kms north of Canberra on the main southern highway to Victoria and the west of NSW.The earliest European discovery was made by Hamilton Hume (with George Barber and William Broughton) in 1821, who quickly set up expeditions after the discovery of good land around Lake George by Throsby and Meehan (1820).Hume established a pastoral station at nearby Gunning and Broughton was one of the first settlers in the Boorowa area.Hume encouraged them to camp regularly by the river on the property he bought at Yass): the main Wiradjuri camping grounds were further south on the Murrumbidgee, and north on the Lachlan and Boorowa rivers.Sadly, the last of the Lachlan tribe were rounded up and herded on to a government reservation near Yass in the late 19th century and just 117 were living there in the 1930s.Today it is his museum under the auspices of the National Trust.Although at the limit of permitted settlement the area around Yass was quickly taken up as freehold and leasehold by land hungry settlers, including squatters who depastured their flocks further south and west.The pioneers of Yass were largely instrumental in development of the merino industry (Hume himself bred merinos.George Merriman (Ravensworth stud 1865) and others were to help make Yass today the centre of fine wool growing in Australia.The first Yass Agricultural Show was held in 1863.Fine wool growing today is still the major industry of Yass.The first village at Yass was located on the south side of the river, but later grew (1830) on the north side, the first government survey in 1834.The Robertson Land Acts of 1861 and the Carruthers Act of 1874 opened up large sheep runs to closer settlement and this helped lead to the further development of the town.Yass has always been an important administrative centre (as the imposing new Court House, 1880 attests).Its troopers and magistrates policed the heady days of gold rush as far away as Young and it was a major rural centre of SW NSW.Declared a Municipality in 1873, merged with Gooradgibee Shire to form Yass Shire Council in 1980, it was consolidated in 2004 as Yass Valley Council.In 1953 it was the first municipality in Australia to introduce fluoridation into the town water supply.Tree plantings in the 1960s and attempts to preserve historic buildings were countered by ad hoc development of businesses to serve the highway trade (first motel 1960, transport relay station in 1970).Many people will have fond memories of Yass as a refuelling and refreshment stop on the great south road.It has been, in fact, a centre of travel and communication since its earliest days.Hume set off in 1824 from here to travel to what was to be Victoria.The coach mail first arrived in Yass in 1835 over a track from Goulburn; faster American coaches came from Sydney in 1859, soon to travel on to Binalong, Murrumburah and Lambing Flat.In 1858 the telegraph reached Yass connecting it and surrounding villages with the outside world (it played a vital role in the Lambing Flat riots), and in 1876 the railway.Geography (and cost) had the station placed several miles away (Yass Junction).Not to be daunted locals had a tramway line opened from the station to the centre of town in 1892, which operated until 1958 and was finally closed in 1988.Similarly, attempts to get a railway link from Yass to Boorowa, and later to Canberra were unsuccessful.Yass's future was later to be linked to the motor car.The rough road over the Cullerin Range from Goulburn, largely bypassed by the railway, came into importance again in the 1920s with the advent of the motor car (in 1929 there were estimated to be 800 cars in the Yass district).By the 1960s cars and trucks thundered up and down this highway.Yass today has beautified streetscapes.It attracts people who have the time and interest to explore its historic charm.Yass today ironically enjoys an influx of Canberra workers as residents who enjoy its rural charm over the bustle of the city.Like many other towns on the highway of life, Yass affords the visitor an interesting and worthwhile deviation where you can explore its history and heritage, and discover at leisure its many local attractions.Although there is a roadhouse on the freeway bypass, it is worthwhile for the traveller and visitor to take time off to explore the town.There are many cafes, takeaways, restaurants and hotels where you can seek refreshment and Yass is well served with motels and other accommodation.Galleries, craft shops and boutiques offer interesting shopping experiences.Call in at the Visitor Information Centre for comprehensive details of places of local interest.Yass has several good museums: Cooma Cottage (National Trust building) is a short drive north of town; the Hamilton Hume Museum has relics of Yass history and Australia's past; the Tramway Station is now a Railway Museum.The road to Canberra passes through Murrumbatemen where there are a number of local wineries with cellar doors.Hovell Walking Track (leading south to Albury through wild countryside) where you can take walks of a day, weekend, or even weeks if you wish (details from Dept.Lots of places in town for lunch and refreshments, picnic areas and BBQs, children's playgrounds.Swimming pool in town, and at resorts nearby.Walk wilderness trails, explore spooky caves.Hovell Walking Track (parental supervision necessary).Find out who these people were and where they fit into the story of Yass: Hamilton Hume, Banjo Patterson, John O'Brien, Sir Walter Merriman.YAN is a collective organisation made up of the landcare groups in the Yass region of NSW.They differ substantially in size but all maintain an active program and welcome new members.
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