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| Let's Chat | | A new section for readers to help each other search out family history and other historical matters, and for researchers to add their findings.
| | Poems About Us | | Henry Lawson's poems about the Mudgee region, plus Diane de St Hilaire Simmonds' local poems, plus poems by readers.Henry Lawson Poetry about the Mudgee District.
| | Wiradjuri and other Aboriginal Tribe links |  | There were two aboriginal tribes in the Triamble, Macquarie River region. The Aboriginal name for the Macquarie River was Wambool, meaning ‘meandering’. The tribe Thomas Charles Codogan Sutter first encountered in early 1830 was the Waradgerie tribe, and no instances were ever recorded of them attacking the early white settlers.
| | Can a button challenge Blackman's discovery of Mudgee? |  | Wal Ellison and his wife discovered an old soldier's button while metal detecting south of Mudgee along the Cudgegong River. He has done some research, and believes the button was lost by the original owner, who was a soldier of the 73rd Regiment on Foot, who were in the colony between 1810 and 1814, working from Newcastle. Mr Ellison thinks the find might just challenge traditional records that Blackman was the discoverer of Mudgee. Read the account and make a comment.
| | Triamble Valley Aboriginals |  | There were two aboriginal tribes in the Triamble, Macquarie River region. The Aboriginal name for the Macquarie River was Wambool, meaning ‘meandering’. The tribe Thomas Charles Codogan Sutter first encountered in early 1830 was the Waradgerie tribe, and no instances were ever recorded of them attacking the early white settlers.
| | Aboriginal Elder of Mudgee | | A few miles north of Rylstone, the Great Dividing Range swings eastward, enclosing the fertile, almost treeless flats of the Cudgegong River. Where these flats give way to the rugged mountain country surrounding Nullo Mountain, in the small valleys that lie beneath Mount Never Never and Mount Kelgoola, many early settlers made their homes.
| | The Gold Rush and Cobb & Co |  | On the Mudgee, Eurunderee, Home Rule and Gulgong run, Cobb & Co were allowed 120 pounds per annum extra to convey the mails on from Gulgong to Mudgee immediately after they arrived at Gulgong, by a buggy or other light vehicle. This run was transferred from John Randell in 1883 to Cobb & Co.
| | The Wiradjuri People by Michael Cowie |  | This article is submitted to us by Michael Cowie. Michael went to primary school at Charbon in 1939-42 and has since been a regular visitor since then to Rylstone; Kandos & Dunns Swamp and maintained contact with friends in the area and keenly interested in the history of the area. He is of Aboriginal descent through his maternal Madge Green (Lambert) line and the GGG Grandson of Peggy Lambert
| | PASSAGES TO THE NORTH-WEST PLAINS | | The Colonial discovery and occupation of East-Central NSW, 1817-26
OXLEY, HOWE, LAWSON AND CUNNINGHAM MUDGEE, MERRIWA, AND MUSWELLBROOK
Incorporating an extended discussion of the armed conflict between Aborigines, settlers and police in the Hunter Valley, 1825-26; By MICHAEL O’ROURKE | | Local Character: Don Hobbs |  | | Everyone in the Mudgee district would agree Don Hobbs is slightly eccentric, but they would also agree that he has a heart of gold and is there to help any community event he can. |
| Website Launch |
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| Norman McVicker OAM, Launched this site on the 20th February 2009 |  | The history of the Mudgee region is being transformed by the age of information technology. Our history is to be online on a web site created by Diane Simmonds. I have been researching and writing a column about local history for over twenty years for the Mudgee Guardian.
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| IntroductionMudgee District Local History is a service that tells the story of the second region settled west of the Blue Mountains, a district with a fine tradition of heritage that is preserved and valued.
Mudgee is the Orana district, meaning welcome; the name Mudgee meaning ‘nest in the hills’ according to local Wiradjuri Aboriginal tradition. The region covered in this history includes Gulgong, Rylstone, Kandos, Cassilis, Ulan, Lue, Hargraves, Grattai, Windeyer, Wollar, the Turon, Bylong, Capertee, Hill End, Ilford and Sofala.
The region snuggles in the foothills and tablelands of the Blue Mountains, the rolling hills and mountain peaks preserving the secrets of yesteryear — and the district is rich in a heritage of the Wiradjuri nation, gold mining, Australian wool production, cattle and horse breeding and more recently fine wines, honey, olives and fine food, art and culture. Information about these genres and more will be added to the site as it grows.
The Mudgee region still retains many of its original villages, steeped in family traditions and local character. The villages are made up of generational families and newcomers, the first influx in the 1970s and 1980s of alternative lifestylers, or ’blockies’; the more recent semi-retired tree changers, but all bringing a multitude of art, craft, and entrepreneur skills, giving life and colour to the image of who and what we are as a community.
This is our story.
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