 A minor road appears in this region on Thomas Mitchell 's 1834 map of the Nineteen Counties of New South Wales . Located within Murray county , the road continues from Bungendore towards the south before turning west crossing the Queanbeyan River near its confluence with the Molonglo River ( The current location of Queanbeyan ) , and then heads south towards what was then known as the " Miccaligo Plains " ( now Michelago ) . The road is then marked as continuing south beyond the border of the county ; although no settlement could legally occur beyond the Nineteen Counties at that time , those who settled beyond this area were known as squatters . The detail of the road beyond Murray county is not plotted on the map . By 1844 the road had reached Cooma , and was extended to Bombala by 1852 . Mapping from 1882 shows the road had extended all the way to the Victorian border , crossing near Delegate . 
