Louth, New South Wales
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Louth is a small town on the Darling River in New South Wales, Australia in Bourke Shire, approximately 100 kilometres south west of Bourke and 140 kilometres north west of Cobar. It is a small village with a population of thirty, made famous by the Louth Races which are held in August each year, attracting crowds of neary five thousand.
The community has a pub, school, tennis club and turf club.
The town was established in 1859 when Thomas Andrew Mathews, an Irish immigrant from County Louth, built a pub to serve the passing trade along the then busy Darling River. At one stage the town grew to have three hotels, a cordial factory, three bakeries, two butchers, a post office, three churches, a Chinese garden, a general store and a police station. The post office still remains and has been beautifully restored and is now a privately owned bed and breakfast.
When T.A. Mathew's first wife, Mary Mathews, died in 1886, he had a unique headstone built that is now an Australian National Monument. At dusk each night, the cross reflects the setting sun across the town acting as a beacon of light that on the anniversary of her death lights up the doorstep of where her family home once stood.
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