Wagga Wagga

Location

On Murrumbidgee; 80 miles north of Albury

Beginnings

The name (T&C6/7/1872)

Importance of Wagga Wagga

Photograph

Map

What was Wagga Wagga like in the late 1870s

See visit to Wagga Wagga in 1870 (T&C2/4/1870) (T&C6/11/1875)

Facilities in Wagga Wagga in the late 1870s

Population Hotels Australian, Henry Moxham(T&C6/7/1872)

Criterion Hotel , Clark (T&C13/7/1872)

Commercial Hotel (T&C2/4/1870)

Cornwall, M'Alister (T&C13/7/1872)

The Pastrol , JJ Monks (T&C13/7/1872) Churches Church of England, Pownall (T&C13/7/1872)

Roman Catholic, Bermingham, Dunn

Presbyterian, R Falconer

Wesleyan, KA Corner Schools Public School , Mr P Durie, head master, Miss Galloway, and Master James Daley. (T&C13/7/1872) Main Streets Fitzmaurice street (T&C6/7/1872) River traffic

. Coaches

During the 1870s before the railway arrived all the routes across the Riverina were serviced by coaches

Bank

Bank of New South Wales , Scriven

Australian Joint Stock Bank, , Cottee Local Government C A Middleton Telegraph Office

Post Office Other things of interest Chapmans grain mill (T&C2/4/1870)

flour mill Jenkins (T&C13/7/1872)

tariff on the bridges (T&C2/4/1870) (T&C13/7/1872) (T&C6/11/1875)

Builder Charles Hardy (T&C13/7/1872)

Doctors Morgan, Robinson (T&C13/7/1872)

Freemasons Hall (T&C13/7/1872)

Henry Baylis, Esq,police magistrate, Chas. M Lloyd, John Leitch, James Cochran, William Faed, Alexander M'Neil, Thomas W Hammond, Walter O Windeyer, F A Thompson, J S Lavender, J J Fernell, and Francis E Murphy, E H Thompson, , (T&C6/7/1872)

gaoler Mr R G Monteith (T&C6/7/1872)

horse racing club CM Lloyd (T&C13/7/1872)

shops

Coffey and Cassin's. and Bergin, Moxham, and Co.Saddlerys (T&C6/7/1872)

Roberts, Copland, and Co.

WC Hunter, C Wall, G Forsyth (T&C13/7/1872)

The Express , Edmonton (T&C13/7/1872)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser

stock & station agents Power, Rutherford, and Co, Mr George Mair (Ettersbank. Egglestone, and Co.) ; Mr J G Dougharty (Wilkinson, Hann, and Co); G Forsyth and Co, S Minchin, and A Armstrong (T&C6/7/1872)

Links to the KellyGang

The KellyGang 'traded' horses around Wagga

Jim Kelly was sentenced to 3 years in Wagga gaol in 1877

Famous members of the Wagga Wagga community

AG Jones, A Williams, George Forsyth, Mr G A Elliott's, Mr Darlow's, Mr Bayliss's(T&C13/7/1872)