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Cassilis (Co. Bligh) 32°00’S. 149°59’E., 32 km SE of Coolah, on Munmurra R.; estab. as a private village by Robert Scott, laid out 1835, village gaz. 1869 as Dalkeith but known as Cassilis, designated as chief town of the county; sheep, wheat, goldmining; airfield; Angl. C. (St Colomba of Iona) b. 1900 by Robert Thompson Highfield, d. by George Sanders & Son, and graveyard (208 graves 1882+); bridge 1878, new one (concrete) b. 1936 by Charles Hardy Contracting Co., over Munmurra R.; bushfire 2017; cemetery; CH (incl. lock-up) 1835, replacement 1860 d. by Alexander Dawson, additions 1870 by Patrick Ryan, additions 1882 by Oliver Saunders, repairs 1891 by Stoddart Bros., repairs 1907 by Albert Murphy; FB; fire 1899; floods 1862 and 1874; grasshopper infestation 1921; mouse plague 1943; PO 1836, new one b. 1880-82 by Oliver Saunders, repairs 1935 by J. H. Kertz; pound (stock) 1842; powerhouse (Keith Vincent Lennox), plant repaired by John Henry Agnew after fire in 1949; PS 1860 d. by Alexander Dawson, new one b. 1891 by Patrick Berecry, d. by Walter Liberty Vernon; rifle range 1925, new one 1937; Rom. Cath. C. 1876, new one (St Joseph’s) b. 1894 by John Miller, d. by Frederick Burnhardt Menkens, closed, and graveyard (143 graves 1876+) school 1875, new one b. 1876 by James Pritchard, renovated 1929 by Kurtz, new building b. 1938 by J. C. Pickles, moved to new site, additions 1962; snowstorm 1939; storms 1876, 1903, 1921; telegraph 1865, new office b. 1880-82 by Oliver Saunders; TX 1910; water reticulation 1969; pop. 49 (1846), 79 (1851), 82 (1856), 109 (1861), с200 (1866), 141 (1871), 99 (1881), 164 (1891), 321 (1901), 383 (1911), 232 (1933), 235 (1947), 213 (1954), 168 (1961), 342 (2006), 350 (2011)1 .