Murrumburrah
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | town |
| name | Murrumburrah |
| state | nsw |
| image | Murrumburrah Albury Street 001.JPG |
| caption | Albury Street, the main street of Murrumburrah |
| lga | Hilltops Council |
| postcode | 2587 |
| coordinates | |
| pop | |
| pop_year | |
| pop_footnotes | |
| stategov | Cootamundra |
| fedgov | Riverina |
| :: |
| type = town | name = Murrumburrah | state = nsw | image = Murrumburrah Albury Street 001.JPG | caption = Albury Street, the main street of Murrumburrah | lga = Hilltops Council | postcode = 2587 | coordinates = | pop = | pop_year = | pop_footnotes = | est = | elevation= | maxtemp = | mintemp = | rainfall = | county = | stategov = Cootamundra | fedgov = Riverina Murrumburrah is a town in New South Wales, Australia, part of a twin town with Harden. The town is in Hilltops Council local government area in the South West Slopes area of NSW. It is on the Burley Griffin Way, the major link from the Riverina to the Hume Highway near Yass, and ultimately Sydney, Canberra and the coast.
The name probably comes from Wiradhuri murrimboola, which can reasonably be translated to "two waterholes".
History
Before European settlement the Harden area was inhabited by the Wiradjuri people. Hume and Hovell passed nearby in 1824. In the late 1820s, the 'Murrumburra' was established. Its superintendent, James Kennedy, established an inn on the townsite in the late 1840s. Gold was found in the area in the 1850s.{{cite web |publisher = Walkabout, John Fairfax |title = Harden |url = http://www.walkabout.com.au/fairfax/locations/NSWHarden.shtml |accessdate = 2007-01-25 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20061003124429/http://www.walkabout.com.au/fairfax/locations/NSWHarden.shtml |archivedate = 2006-10-03 ::quote Murrumburrah has two churches, a school, three hotels, the same number of stores, and a good steam flour mill. The Roman Catholic Church is a fine stone building on a hill above the town, and looks very picturesque; the Wesleyan Chapel is a small wooden building. The principal hotels are Mr. Murphy’s and Mr. Dillon’s. The former owns the flour mill, a good brick building, three stories high. It may be mentioned that a good deal of wheat is grown in the district. ::
A railway station was opened one km east of Murrumburrah on the Main Southern line in 1877 as Murrumburrah station, but changed its name to Harden station, the year after the opening of a new station in Murrumburrah in 1879.{{cite web | publisher = www.nswrail.net | title=Harden Railway Station | url = http://www.nswrail.net/locations/show.php?name=NSW:Harden&line=NSW:main_south:0 |accessdate = 2007-01-25}} Harden has remained as the main station and, as a result, became the main town.
Population
|type= Australia |1921|2958 |1933|2851 |1947|2595 |1954|2727 |1961|2634 |1966|2435 |1971|2263 |1976|2112 |1981|2070 |1986|2045 |1991|2016 |1996|1700 |2001|1913 |2006|1996 |2011|1925 |2016|1964 |2021|1789 |source=Australian Bureau of Statistics data. Note: covers the Murrumburrah-Harden urban area.
At the 2021 census, Murrumburrah had a population of 81, a decrease from 110 people at the 2016 census, while at the , there were 479 people.
Heritage listings
Murrumburrah has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
- Main Southern railway: Demondrille railway station
Light Horse memorial
A feature of the town is a memorial to the Australian Light Horse regiment, which had its origin in Harden-Murrumburrah by the establishment on 28 August 1897 of the 1st Australian (Volunteer) Horse by 34 men from the district. The two large bronze statues depicting Trooper Bradford, one of the original volunteers, and J. A. Kenneth Mackay, prominent in the development of the 1st Australian Horse, were the work of Carl Valerius.
Gallery
File:Murrumburrah Institute & Hall 002.JPG|Murrumburrah Institute & Hall File:Murrumburrah Anglican Church 002.JPG|Anglican Church File:Murrumburrah Roman Catholic Church 004.JPG|Catholic Church File:Murrumburrah Uniting Church 001.JPG|Uniting Church File:Court House Murrumburrah.JPG|Court House File:Murrumburrah Demondrille Shire Offices 001.JPG|Shire Offices File:Murrumburrah Council Chambers 004.JPG|Council Chambers File:Murrumburrah Exchange Hotel 001.JPG|Exchange Hotel File:Murrumburrah Commercial Hotel 006.JPG|Commercial Hotel File:Murrumburrah Post Office 001.JPG|Post Office File:Murrumburrah CBC Bank 002.JPG|CBC Bank File:Bill the Bastard 2.jpg|Bill the Bastard File:J A Kenneth Mackay.jpg|Kenneth Mackay File:Trooper Bradford.jpg|Trooper Bradford
References
- "Murrumburrah".
- 'A Tour to the South: Jugiong to Murrumburrah', ''Town and Country Journal'', 5 August 1872, p. 178.
- "Statistics by Catalogue Number". Australian Bureau of Statistics.
- "Search Census data". Australian Bureau of Statistics.
- "2021 Murrumburrah, Census All persons QuickStats".
- "2016 Murrumburrah, Census All persons QuickStats".
- {{Census 2011 AUS
- {{cite NSW SHR. 5011986. Demondrille Junction railway ruins and signal box
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