Adelong, New South Wales

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Adelong New South Wales
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Population:	900
Postcode:	2729
Elevation:	303 m
Location:	410 km from Sydney 81 km from Wagga Wagga 20 km from Tumut 6 km from Grahamstown [1]
LGA:	Tumut Shire
County:	Wynyard
State District:	Wagga Wagga
Federal Division:	Farrer

Adelong is a small town in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia and is a part of the Tumut Shire. The Adelong District has a population of about 1300 people.

The town is situated about 160 kilometres west of Canberra. It is on the Snowy Mountains Highway.

The towns name is said to be derived from an Aboriginal language meaning "along the way" or "plain with a river".^[2]

It was settled about 1840 to 1850 because gold was found there. During the gold rush the population expanded to more than 30,000 people. The gold ran out in the latter part of the 19th century and the pastural industry became the principal activity. This was mainly Merino sheep and beef cattle, and continues now. Over the last 20 years a tourist industry has developed because of the pleasant scenery and gold mining history. During the gold rush many Chinese people worked in the mines, a lot of whom died and were buried in a special portion of the Adelong cemetery. Unfortunately the Chinese portion of the cemetery was obliterated in the early nineteen hundreds. One or two elderly Chinese and Indians still lived in Adelong in the 1950's. A community named Cornishtown existed about a mile to the West of Adelong till the 1940's ^{[citations needed]}.

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Coordinates: 35°18′S, 148°03′E