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Tambaroora (Co. Wellington) 33°00’S. 149°25’E., 43 km NE of Orange, on Golden Gully; orig. Tamaroora; settled 1851, surveyed by John Alexander Horatio Price and town gaz. 1859, thrived in 1850s and 1871-72, defunct; orig. grazing then mining (gold disc. 1851, gold rush 1852, alluvial mining till 1870, hydraulic mining 1937), now fossicking; Angl. C. 1854, new one (St Saviour’s) 1872; boiling-down works (Treweeke’s); bushfire 1910; cemeteries: general (459 graves 1850s+) 1863 and Rom. Cath. (76 graves 1959-1991); Chinese joss house 1874; dam 1936; droughts 1854-55, 1880, 1888; earth tremor 1862; mines: Colonial Gold Mining Co. 1855 (incl. roasting pits 1858), Dirt Hole 1852, 1884-85, 1889-90, 1937-39, Valentine (Alpha Mining Co.) 1856-61, 1877, 1907, 1910-12, 1914-15, 1922-23, 1933-35; PO 1852-1923; pound (stock) 1865; Presb. C.; PS; Rom. Cath. C. (St Agatha’s) b. 1873-76 by John Webb, d. by Edward Gell; school 1858-1928; stamper batteries; Alpha Mining Co. 1871, Harriet Beard 1860, Colonial Gold Mining Co. 12 head, sold, J. G. Reneteau 1859, which became Beattie’s; telegraph 1870; telephone 1914; watch-house b. 1861 by Arundel Everett and William Stephens; Wes. Meth. C. 1852; pop. С.800 (1853), 259 (1861), с.400 (1866), 409 (1871), 2,683 (1881), 257 (1891), 201 (1901), 167 (1911), 37 (1933)1 .