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Goulburn
KNOWLEDGE OF Goulburn
The first recorded settler in Goulburn established 'Strathallan' in 1825 (on the site of the present Police Academy) and a town was originally surveyed in 1828, although moved to the present site of the city in 1833 when Surveyor Hoddle laid out it out.
George Johnson purchased the first land in the area between 1839 and 1842 and became a central figure in the town's development. He established a branch store with a liquor license in 1848. by 1841 Goulburn had a population of some 1200 people - a courthouse, police barracks, churches, hospital and post office and was the centre of a great sheep and farming area.
The town's named by Johnson after Sir Walter Stevenson's novel Goulburn. Johnson was Irish as were many early settlers in the area. They looked to their country of origin (and its most famous novelist) for other local place names – Towrang, Collector, Taralga (another novel by Stevenson) and Crookwell (Stevenson's birthplace).
Aother possibility is that the town was named after Henry Goulburn, a prominent British politician, whose brother Frederick was the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales at the time.
A telegraph station opened in 1862, by which time there were about 1500 residents, a blacksmith's shop, two hotels, two stores, the telegraph office and a few cottages. The town was a change station (where coach horses were changed) for Cobb & Co. by 1855. A police station opened the following year and a school in 1858. Goulburn was proclaimed a town with municipal government in 1859.
The arrival of the railway in 1869,which was opened by the then Governor Lord Belmore (an event commemorated by Belmore Park in the centre of the city) and the completion of the line from Sydney to Albury in 1893, was a boon to the town. Later branchlines were constructed to Cooma (opened in 1889) and later extended further to Nimmitabel and then to Bombala, and to Crookwell and Taralgo. Goulburn became a major railway centre with a roundhouse and engine servicing facilities and a factory which made pre-fabricated concrete components for signal boxes and station buildings.
Goulburn was proclaimed a city (by the last use of letters patent for that purpose in the British Empire) on the creation of the Anglican Diocese of Goulburn in 1863, developed as a regional centre with an impressive court house (completed in 1887) an other public buildings, as a centre for wool selling, and as an industrial town.
There is little information extant on the local Indigenous Australians. However it is clear that there was, in general, intense and violent conflict over European settlement of the south of NSW until the 1840s and 1850s. On the shore of Lake George, to the south, a group of whites shot a entire tribe and left the skeletons to bleach in the sun.
The Tawonga Billabong Aboriginal Settlement was later established under the supervision of the Tarago police and there is no conflict recorded from this period. In the 1930s the billabong dried up and the Aboriginal people moved away although some have, over time, made their way back.
Goulburn is a cathedral city. St Saviour's Cathedral, designed by Edmund Thomas Blacket, was completed in 1884 with the tower being added in 1988 to commemorate the bicentenary of Australia. St Saviour's is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn. The Church of SS Peter and Paul is the former cathedral for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn.
George Johnson purchased the first land in the area between 1839 and 1842 and became a central figure in the town's development. He established a branch store with a liquor license in 1848. by 1841 Goulburn had a population of some 1200 people - a courthouse, police barracks, churches, hospital and post office and was the centre of a great sheep and farming area.
The town's named by Johnson after Sir Walter Stevenson's novel Goulburn. Johnson was Irish as were many early settlers in the area. They looked to their country of origin (and its most famous novelist) for other local place names – Towrang, Collector, Taralga (another novel by Stevenson) and Crookwell (Stevenson's birthplace).
Aother possibility is that the town was named after Henry Goulburn, a prominent British politician, whose brother Frederick was the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales at the time.
A telegraph station opened in 1862, by which time there were about 1500 residents, a blacksmith's shop, two hotels, two stores, the telegraph office and a few cottages. The town was a change station (where coach horses were changed) for Cobb & Co. by 1855. A police station opened the following year and a school in 1858. Goulburn was proclaimed a town with municipal government in 1859.
The arrival of the railway in 1869,which was opened by the then Governor Lord Belmore (an event commemorated by Belmore Park in the centre of the city) and the completion of the line from Sydney to Albury in 1893, was a boon to the town. Later branchlines were constructed to Cooma (opened in 1889) and later extended further to Nimmitabel and then to Bombala, and to Crookwell and Taralgo. Goulburn became a major railway centre with a roundhouse and engine servicing facilities and a factory which made pre-fabricated concrete components for signal boxes and station buildings.
Goulburn was proclaimed a city (by the last use of letters patent for that purpose in the British Empire) on the creation of the Anglican Diocese of Goulburn in 1863, developed as a regional centre with an impressive court house (completed in 1887) an other public buildings, as a centre for wool selling, and as an industrial town.
There is little information extant on the local Indigenous Australians. However it is clear that there was, in general, intense and violent conflict over European settlement of the south of NSW until the 1840s and 1850s. On the shore of Lake George, to the south, a group of whites shot a entire tribe and left the skeletons to bleach in the sun.
The Tawonga Billabong Aboriginal Settlement was later established under the supervision of the Tarago police and there is no conflict recorded from this period. In the 1930s the billabong dried up and the Aboriginal people moved away although some have, over time, made their way back.
Goulburn is a cathedral city. St Saviour's Cathedral, designed by Edmund Thomas Blacket, was completed in 1884 with the tower being added in 1988 to commemorate the bicentenary of Australia. St Saviour's is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn. The Church of SS Peter and Paul is the former cathedral for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn.
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