The Parish of Tarago is a
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...
of
Argyle County
Argyle County was one of the original Nineteen Counties in New South Wales and is now one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It includes the area around Goulburn. It is bounded by Lake George in the south-west, the Shoalhaven ...
. It does not actually contain the town of
Tarago, which is located further to the south-east in the
Parish of Mulwaree. The Parish was built by the
Department of Lands in
New South Wales
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.
The
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passes through the Parish of Tarago to the north of
Rowes Lagoon.
Currawang Road is another major road in the area.
The Tarago area was first inhabited by the
Gundungurra
The Gundungurra people, also spelt Gundungara, Gandangarra, Gandangara and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people in south-eastern New South Wales, Australia. Their traditional lands include present day Goulburn, Wollondilly Shire ...
people
A person (plural, : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of pr ...
,
[''Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia'', cited in ][ Norman Tindall, http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/archives/hdms/aa338/tindaletribes/gandangara.htm , title=Gandangara (NSW) Aboriginal Tribes of Australia (]South Australian Museum
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, 2006). In the mid 1840s the
NSW colonial government granted numerous
land grants
A land grant is a gift of real estate—land or its use privileges—made by a government or other authority as an incentive, means of enabling works, or as a reward for services to an individual, especially in return for military service. Grants ...
in the area, beginning
white settlement in this land.
References
New South Wales Parish maps preservation project*
Parishes of Argyle County
Southern Tablelands
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