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Caloola is a locality in the Central West region of New South Wales. There once was a small village of the same name but it is a ghost town today. At the 2016 census, the locality had a population of 88. Location Caloola is 28 km south-west of Bathurst and 24 km east-south east of Blayney, by road. The nearest settlement is the village of Newbridge, 7 km to the west. The locality lies on either side of Trunkey Road, the road between Bathurst and Trunkey Creek. History Aboriginal and early settler history The area now known as Caloola is on the traditional land of Wiradjuri people. The name Caloola is probably a settlers' rendering of an aboriginal word and is said to mean "old battleground". After settler colonisation, Caloola lay within the County of Bathurst, Parish of Lowry. In 1853, Caloola Creek was included as a goldfield within the Western Goldfields. There was a short-lived gold rush to Caloola Creek. By 1858, most of the ethnic-European gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blayney, New South Wales
Blayney is a farming town and administrative centre with a population of 2,997 in 2021, in the Central West, New South Wales, Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. Situated on the Mid-Western Highway about west of Sydney, west of Bathurst, New South Wales, Bathurst and above sea-level, Blayney is the seat of Blayney Shire Council. History Prior to European settlement the area was occupied by the Aboriginal Wiradjuri and, or, Gandangara, Gundungara peoples. The first European to travel through area was surveyor George Evans (explorer), George Evans, in 1815 and unofficial occupation of the district began in 1821. The first land grant in the general area known as Coombing Park was issued to Thomas Icely in 1829. In 1836 the locality was known as King's Plains, with Doyle's inn being the only public-house. There was also a mill worked by a man called Lambert. In 1842 George Gipps, Governor Gipps proposed the creation of a village to be named 'Blayney'. His pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuena
Tuena is a town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in Upper Lachlan Shire. It is located on Tuena Creek, tributary of the Abercrombie River, west of the state capital, Sydney. At the , Tuena and the surrounding area had a population of 59. Only nine months after the first payable discovery of gold in Australia at Ophir (start of the Australian gold rushes), gold was found at Tuena. History The site was first explored by Dr. Charles Throsby in 1819, with the first landholder, Samuel Blackman, arriving in 1836. In May 1859, Tuena was formally declared a town. It was surveyed and streets were laid out, although with the exception of Bathurst Road, little of the original town plan is evident today. Gold was discovered at Tuena in November 1851, although gold had been discovered on the Abercrombie River (the Tarshish Diggings), 10 km north some months earlier. The following extract from a contemporary newspaper announces the discovery at Tuena. Rapid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Example Category
Example may refer to: * ''exempli gratia'' (e.g.), usually read out in English as "for example" * .example, reserved as a domain name that may not be installed as a top-level domain of the Internet ** example.com, example.net, example.org, and example.edu: second-level domain names reserved for use in documentation as examples * HMS ''Example'' (P165), an Archer-class patrol and training vessel of the Royal Navy Arts * ''The Example'', a 1634 play by James Shirley * ''The Example'' (comics), a 2009 graphic novel by Tom Taylor and Colin Wilson * Example (musician), the British dance musician Elliot John Gleave (born 1982) * ''Example'' (album), a 1995 album by American rock band For Squirrels See also * Exemplar (other), a prototype or model which others can use to understand a topic better * Exemplum, medieval collections of short stories to be told in sermons * Eixample The Eixample (, ) is a district of Barcelona between the old city (Ciutat Vella) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main Western Railway Line, New South Wales
The Main Western Railway (or Great Western Railway) is a major railway in New South Wales, Australia. It runs through the Blue Mountains (Australia), Blue Mountains, and Central West, New South Wales, Central West regions. It is long, of which is currently operational. Description of route The Main Western Railway Line is a westwards continuation of what is known as the Main Suburban railway line, Main Suburban Line between Central railway station, Sydney, Sydney Central station and Granville railway station, Granville. The line is six electrified railway tracks between Central and Strathfield railway station, Strathfield, where the Main Northern railway line, Main Northern line branches off. The line is then four tracks as it passes through Lidcombe railway station, Lidcombe, where the Main Southern railway line, Main Southern line branches off, and then through the Sydney suburbs of Parramatta and Blacktown railway station, Blacktown, where the Richmond railway line branc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Vane (bushranger)
John Vane (16 June 1842 – 30 January 1906) was an Australian bushranger who joined with Frank Gardiner–Ben Hall gang, John Gilbert's gang for a short period during 1863. He rode with John Gilbert (bushranger), Gilbert, Ben Hall (bushranger), Ben Hall, John O’Meally and his friend Mick Burke, all of whom eventually met violent deaths. Burke, who had been Vane's childhood friend, died in a violent gun-fight at 'Dunn's Plains', near Rockley. Vane managed to avoid the fate of his companions when he gave himself up. In 1905 Vane collaborated with author and newspaper editor, Charles White (writer), Charles White, in recording his recollections of the period he spent as part of the bushranging gangs led by Gilbert, Hall and O’Meally. Vane’s biography, edited by White, was published in 1908 (two years after Vane’s death). Biography Early life John Vane was born on 16 June 1842 at Jerrys Plains, New South Wales, Jerrys Plains on the Hunter River, the fifth-born of the ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John O'Meally
John O'Meally (June 1840 – 19 November 1863), known informally as 'Jack' O'Meally, was an Australia bushranger. He was recruited to join the Gardiner–Hall gang to carry out the Escort Rock, gold escort robbery near Eugowra in June 1862, Australia's largest gold theft. O'Meally became a member of the group of bushrangers led by Johnny Gilbert and Ben Hall, which committed many robberies in the central west of New South Wales. Considered to be the most violent and hot-headed of the group, O'Meally was probably responsible for two murders during this time. The gang managed to evade the police for long periods and became the most notorious of the bushranging gangs of the 1860s. Jack O'Meally was shot and killed during an attack on the 'Goimbla' station homestead in November 1863. Biography Family circumstances John O'Meally was born in June 1840 in the vicinity of Cunningham Creek, south-east of Murrumburrah, the eldest of ten children of Patrick O'Meally and Judith ('' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanging
Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature strangulation, ligature. Hanging has been a standard method of capital punishment since the Middle Ages, and has been the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging is in Homer's ''Odyssey''. Hanging is also a Suicide by hanging, method of suicide. Methods of judicial hanging There are numerous methods of hanging in execution that instigate death either by cervical fracture or by Strangling, strangulation. Short drop The short drop is a method of hanging in which the condemned prisoner stands on a raised support, such as a stool, ladder, cart, horse, or other vehicle, with the noose around the neck. The support is then moved away, leaving the person dangling from the rope. Suspended by the neck, the weight of the body tightens the noose around the neck, effecting strangulation and death. Loss of consciousness is typically rapid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gilbert (bushranger)
Johnny Gilbert (c. 1842-1865) was an Australian bushranger who was shot dead by the police at the age of 23 near Binalong, New South Wales on 13 May 1865. Gilbert was a member of Ben Hall (bushranger), Ben Hall's gang. Hall and Gilbert were both shot by police within a week of each other. Hall was shot dead on 5 May 1865 near Forbes, New South Wales, Forbes. Hall wanted to stop bushranging & decided to go it alone. He dissolved the partnership with the gang then Gilbert and John Dunn (bushranger), John Dunn travelled to Binalong where Dunn had relatives. Early life He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton, Canada West in 1842. His mother Eleanor (née Wilson) died shortly after his birth. His father William subsequently married Eliza Cord, a woman only slightly older than his eldest surviving daughter, Eleanor. In 1852 John accompanied his family to the Victorian goldfields. Nine members of the Gilbert family arrived in Port Phillip on board the ''Revenue'' in October 1852 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Hall (bushranger)
Ben Hall (9 May 1837 – 5 May 1865) was an Australian bushranger and leading member of the Gardiner–Hall gang. He and his associates carried out many raids across New South Wales, from Bathurst, New South Wales, Bathurst to Forbes, New South Wales, Forbes, south to Gundagai and east to Goulburn, New South Wales, Goulburn. Unlike many bushrangers of the era, Hall was not directly responsible for any deaths, although several of his associates were. He was shot dead by police in May 1865 at Goobang Creek. The police claimed that they were acting under the protection of the ''Felons Apprehension Act 1865,'' which allowed any bushranger who had been specifically named under the terms of the Act to be shot, and killed by any person at any time without warning. At the time of Hall's death, the Act had not yet come into force, resulting in controversy over the legality of his killing. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bushranger
Bushrangers were armed robbers and outlaws who resided in The bush#Australia, the Australian bush between the 1780s and the early 20th century. The original use of the term dates back to the early years of the British colonisation of Australia, and applied to convicts in Australia, transported convicts who had escaped into the bush to hide from the authorities. By the 1820s, the term had evolved to refer to those who took up "armed robbery, robbery under arms" as a way of life, using the bush as their base. Bushranging thrived during the mid-19th century Australian gold rushes, gold rushes, with many bushrangers roaming the goldfields and country districts of New South Wales and Victoria (state), Victoria, and to a lesser extent Queensland. As the outbreak worsened in the mid-1860s, colonial governments outlawed many of the most notorious bushrangers, including the Gardiner–Hall gang, Dan Morgan (bushranger), Dan Morgan, and the Clarke gang. These "The Wild Colonial Boy, Wild ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Church (Australia)
In Australia, a Union Church is a church building owned and maintained by a local trust and available to multiple denominations. Such churches were once common in rural areas. Some were available to all denominations and even to other religions, others specified particular beliefs, such as the Nicene Creed. Many still exist and are in regular use. Existing Union Churches New South Wales Araluen Union Church There is a Union Church at Araluen. It was built, in 1911, on land donated by William Mundy, on the condition that the building could be used by any denomination. It is used currently for Anglican and Uniting services on alternating weeks. Caloola Union Church In Caloola, New South Wales, this is still maintained by a Trust, and has a historic cemetery. It opened and was dedicated in 1865. As of 2021, four interdenominational Sunday services are conducted each year, with clergy from several denominations attending each. Meroo Union Church Mangrove Mountain Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathurst, New South Wales
Bathurst () is a city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. Bathurst is about 200 kilometres (120 mi) west-northwest of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Region, Bathurst Regional Council. Founded in 1815, Bathurst is the oldest inland settlement in Australia and had a population of 44,621 in 2023. Bathurst is often referred to as the Gold Country, as the area was the site of Australia's first discovery of payable gold in 1851, and where Australia's first gold rush occurred. Today education, tourism and manufacturing drive the economy. The internationally known racetrack Mount Panorama, also known as Wahluu, is a landmark of the city which brings in a lot of tourism, especially during the week of the Bathurst 1000. Bathurst has a historic city centre with many ornate buildings remaining from the New South Wales gold rush in the mid to late 19th century. History Wiradjuri The area around what is now called Bathurst was originally occupied by the Muurra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
