The Parish of Tarago is a
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
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 Shoalhave ...
. It does not actually contain the town of
Tarago, which is located further to the southeast in the
Parish of Mulwaree. The Parish was established by the
Department of Lands in
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...
.
The
Federal Highway 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 Gandangara people, also spelled Gundungara, Gandangarra, Gundungurra and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people in south-eastern New South Wales, Australia. Their traditional lands include present day Goulburn, Wollondilly Sh ...
people
The term "the people" refers to the public or Common people, common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. I ...
.
[''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
The South Australian Museum is a natural history museum and research institution in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1856 and owned by the Government of South Australia. It occupies a complex of buildings on North Terrace in the cultur ...
, 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, marking the beginning of
white settlement on this land.
References
External links
New South Wales Parish maps preservation project*
Parishes of Argyle County
Southern Tablelands
{{SouthernTablelands-geo-stub