Where does Castlereagh River begin?
Castlereagh River
Aborigines were camping along the river at the start of 1874 when the great flood came.  At Gilgandra, an aboriginal woman and her young son were assisted by innkeeper Mrs Hannah Morris to flee their camp at the river bank as the water rose around them.[34] Eventually, the people camped more permanently at Gilgandra at a place along the river near the race course.[23]:10 At Coonabarabran in 1894 Aboriginal Mrs Mary Jane Cain lobbied to have her ownership of her small 400-acre selection, called "Burra Bee Dee", recognised as a place for her people, and others freely moved there.[24]:9 At Gulargambone, the banks of the river became a semi-permanent camping place for Aboriginal people, but by 1892 it was gazetted as an Aboriginal Reserve under the Aborigines Protection Board.[35]