How a lively community from the other side of the world sprang up to cut granite for Australia’s iconic project, then vanished

For six years it was a thriving settlement; an instant town that popped up on a hillside overlooking the majestic Moruya River, moody mountains in the distance.

An entire community mainly of Scots was brought to the New South Wales south coast in the 1920s, to quarry and cut huge granite stones for the Sydney Harbour Bridge pylons.

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