Mathoura, New South Wales
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| Mathoura New South Wales |
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| Population: | 643 (2001 census) | ||||||
| Established: | 1860 | ||||||
| Postcode: | 2710 | ||||||
| Elevation: | 105 m (344 ft) | ||||||
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| LGA: | Murray Shire Council | ||||||
| County: | Cadell | ||||||
| State District: | Murray-Darling | ||||||
| Federal Division: | Farrer | ||||||
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Mathoura is a small town in the Riverina region of southern New South Wales, Australia, in Murray Shire. At the 2001 census Mathoura had a population of 643.[1]
[edit] History
In 1848 a reserve was established on Gulpa Creek by Surveyor Townsend. The locality became known as Redbank. By 1853 W. Moore Carter had established an inn at Redbank and in 1856 he was permitted to purchase twelve acres at £2 10s. per acre. By 1860 Carter had about 40 acres under cultivation, including a five acre vineyard.
A petition in 1859 called on the Government to put up the reserve at Redbank for sale. However there were others who considered a more suitable position for a village was at Hill Plain, where Mr. Stuckey had erected an inn (opened in June 1860 and managed by John Atkinson).
In 1860 Surveyor McCulloch laid out the township of Redbank near the site of Carter's Redbank Inn. In 1864 Carter was growing tobacco at Redbank (from which cigars were manufactured).
A traveller passing through Redbank in mid-1865 stated that “Mr. Carter has established a brick public-house… situated on the bank of the Gulpa Creek”. The writer added: “I observed three or four acres fenced and stocked with fruit trees, withered and dried up”.[2]
In 1865 Henry Burton, a circus proprietor, purchased the Redbank Inn; he held the license until at least 1870.
By 1871 the village began to be called Mathoura. It was made a stopping-place on the Victorian railway line that was extended into New South Wales to Deniliquin. By 1879 it was reported that the village had about six houses of "straggling order" and was supported principally by the timber trade. By 1882 a flour mill had been established at Mathoura; there were two hotels, the Mathoura Inn and the Railway Hotel, as well as a school, a Union church and a sawmill.[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (9 March 2006). Mathoura (L) (Urban Centre/Locality). 2001 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2007-06-30.
- ^ ’A Tour in the Riverine District’ (letter to the editor), Sydney Morning Herald, 13 July 1865, p. 2.
- ^ Jervis, James, 'The Western Riverina: A History of Its Development', Royal Australian Historical Society Journal and Proceedings, Vol. XXXVIII 1952, p. 190.
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