History enthusiasts in the Ross area were treated to a literal walk through the ages on Sunday at the Walk into Mystery with the Ross Bridge tour.
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With the nation’s third oldest bridge currently awaiting national heritage listing approval in Canberra, walkers took the chance to learn more about Ross’ history over the course of a three-hour stroll.
The event took walkers along the Macquarie River heritage trail and past the Ross Female Factory before finishing up at the old military burial ground.
Walk organiser Kim Peart said the recent news of the bridge’s potential national heritage listing made the event all the more exciting.
"There's 186 individual carvings on the bridge and each of them tells a story," Mr Peart said.
"This walk from the Ross Bridge to the old burial ground will be a little bit more special in that this is happening."
Mr Peart said a depiction of an Icelandic governor held one of the bridge's most fascinating stories.
“A gentleman known as Jorgen Jorgenson who ruled Iceland for two months in 1809 and found himself in Van Diemen's Land as a convict in 1826, he gained work as a police constable and was sent to Ross to investigate the theft of building materials which were meant to go into the bridge but instead were going into local houses.
“He was a myth in his own lifetime and often called the ex-king of Iceland, though he wasn't a king, he was a governor for two months.
“He is believed to be the gentleman wearing a crown on the Ross Bridge - the king on the bridge."