It is significant for its historical connections to the Wiradjuri indigenous people during the colonial era and early twentieth century, when the camp site formed part of a Christian mission station.

Located on University Road, Wellington in the Central West region of the state, it is also known as The Spring Flats.

Wiradjuri territorial lands are thought to have extended from the Great Dividing Range in the east and were bordered by the Macquarie, Lachlan and Murrunbidgee Rivers.

Evidence of the occupation of the Wellington area by the Wiradjuri in pre-contact times survives in the form rock shelters with deposits, a carved tree, scarred trees, open camp sites, grinding grooves sites and bora (ceremonial) grounds.

By 1839 most of the frontage of the Macquarie River was taken up by squatters, and the first land holders in the Wellington Valley area date from the 1830s.

As European settlement in the Wellington area intensified, the Wiradjuri were increasingly driven off their traditional lands.

Watson and his wife Ann arrived in Wellington Valley in 1832 as part of a mission team sent by the London-based Church Missionary Society to bring Christianity to the Wiradjuri People.

Watson's policy of removing Aboriginal children from their families led to bitter confrontations between the Rev.

[1] Blacks Camp was situated on approximately 8.5 hectares (21 acres) of land adjacent to the site of Blake's Fall Mission.

According to Wiradjuri elders, some of the residents at the camp came from outside the Wellington district, including women and children who survived a massacre in the Rylstone area.

The Inspector reported that Blacks Camp comprised eighteen huts sheltering around eighty persons.

[1] Today, part of the former camp site is occupied by a research station, operated by the University of New South Wales.

Structures associated with the research station include: a caretakers residence, above ground tanks, a number of sheds and adjacent to the house is a stock yard.

[1] Blacks Camp was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 18 November 2011 having satisfied the following criteria.

The site is associated with the displacement, dispossession and social isolation experienced by Wiradjuri community following the arrival of non-Aboriginal settlers.

[1] The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.

[1] The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales.

[1] This Wikipedia article was originally based on Blacks Camp, entry number 01865 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 2 June 2018.