This conservation management plan provides a framework to facilitate decision-making about the interpretation and conservation of this site.
Maynggu Ganai (people's land) is historically significant because of its shared associations with the local Wellington community and the convict system. The site is of national significance for Aboriginal and European Australians.
The site is part of a larger historic precinct and its former uses include:
- a government settlement
- a convict agricultural station and farm
- a government stock department
- an Aboriginal mission
- a civil police establishment.
The convict agricultural station was the second settlement to be established west of the Great Dividing Range – Bathurst was the first. The Aboriginal mission was the first inland mission in Australia and was continuously used for this purpose between 1823 and 1845.
