Grafton (New South Wales)

Grafton is a city in the northeast of the Australian state of New South Wales and is located about 350 km from Brisbane on the coast road Highway 1 lies on both sides of the Clarence River just above sea level.

Grafton was founded in 1851 and has 17,501 inhabitants. Grafton gained its importance as a transit point for trade between metropolitan Brisbane and Sydney and lives mainly from agriculture and animal husbandry. The trade also gave the city its most famous building. The Grafton Bridge, which was completed in 1932, spans the Clarence River on two levels, one for traffic and one for the North Coast railway line, and was originally even a bascule bridge.

The city is also known as the Jacaranda City because of Jacaranda tree- lined streets of the city - and the named after Jacaranda Festival.

Grafton is the administrative seat of the local administrative area in Clarence Valley Council.

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States and territories of Australia Local government areas of Australia Highway 1 (Australia) Clarence River (New South Wales) Australian Bureau of Statistics
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