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Our history: Massive flood hit Terara in 1870

Stuart Thomson
Updated November 19 2021 - 12:26pm, first published 12:00pm
Devestation: An aerial shot of the 1978 flood at Nowra, there aren't any known photos of the 1870 flood.
Devestation: An aerial shot of the 1978 flood at Nowra, there aren't any known photos of the 1870 flood.

It was one of the largest floods the region had ever seen but it was also the start of Nowra developing as a town, as the people of Terara moved to higher ground.

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Stuart Thomson

Stuart Thomson

Journalist

Journalist at the South Coast Register.

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