Currawang

Currawang
New South Wales

Currawang area from space, November 1985

Currawang

Location in New South Wales

Coordinates

34°57′57″S 149°31′02″E / 34.96583°S 149.51722°ECoordinates: 34°57′57″S 149°31′02″E / 34.96583°S 149.51722°E

Population

182 (2016 census)

Postcode(s)

2580

Location

40 km (25 mi) SW of Goulburn
60 km (37 mi) NE of Canberra

Lands administrative divisions around Currawang:
Collector	Wollogorang	Yarra
Collector	Currawang	Lake Bathurst
Lake George	Lake George	Tarago

Currawang is a locality in the Queanbeyan–Palerang Regional Council, on the edges of Upper Lachlan Shire and Goulburn-Mulwaree Council, in New South Wales, Australia. It is located to the north of Lake George. It shares its name with the Currawang Parish of Argyle County, in which it is located. This was formerly known as the parish of Currowang. Both names derive from an Aboriginal word for the spearwood tree (Acacia doratoxylon).

The area of Currawang was first inhabited by the Gundungurra people,who called the area Werriwa, and who were apparently badly affected by influenza in 1846/47.

In the mid 1840s the NSW colonial government granted numerous land grants in area, beginning white settlement.

Copper was soon discovered, as was gold, 7km to the west, and a town of Currawang soon sprung up. The town had a post office, shops, primary school and two churches. The post office operated from 1866 and which was closed on 31 March 1962 while the Currawang Public School operated from 1870 till 1944. The mines closed in the 1990s and today only the Catholic (Hermitage) and Protestant (St. Matthias) church buildings remain.

Pastoralism remains the dominant part of the economy, however employment also comes from the waste management facilities reusing the former mine sites, and the recently constructed Capital Wind Farm. There is still an active Rural Fire Service Brigade.

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