Coolringdon

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Coolringdon
New South Wales
Coolringdon NSW 2630, Australia - panoramio (3).jpg
Kosciuszko Road, Coolringdon
Coolringdon is located in New South Wales
Coolringdon
Coolringdon
Location in New South Wales
Coordinates36°15′03″S 149°00′55″E / 36.25083°S 149.01528°E / -36.25083; 149.01528Coordinates: 36°15′03″S 149°00′55″E / 36.25083°S 149.01528°E / -36.25083; 149.01528
Population67 (2016 census)[1]
Postcode(s)2630
Location
LGA(s)Snowy Monaro Regional Council
RegionSouthern Tablelands
CountyBeresford
ParishCoolringdon
State electorate(s)Monaro
Federal division(s)Eden-Monaro
Localities around Coolringdon:
Rhine Falls Wambrook Dairymans Plains
Middlingbank Coolringdon Pine Valley
Berridale Arable Rock Flat

Coolringdon is a locality in the Local Government Area of the Snowy Monaro Regional Council, in the Monaro region of New South Wales, Australia. It lies in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, west of Cooma.

The area now known as Coolringdon lies on the traditional lands of the Ngarigo people.[2] Called 'Coolerandong' by early colonial settlers,[3] it is likely that the name of Coolringdon is derived from an Aboriginal language word that has been anglicised.

The area lay outside the Nineteen Counties, and settlers had no legal right—even under colonial law—to occupy land there, until 1836, after which grazing rights could be obtained by payment of a licence fee.

Coolrington Homestead c.1900

The locality takes its name from a sheep station of the same name, which dates from 1829, and was one of the earliest colonial settlements in the Monaro. It was taken up as a squatting run by Stewart Ryrie, Deputy Commissary General of N.S.W. and patriarch of the Ryrie family of colonial settlers.[3]

By 1845, it was being managed by Stewart Ryrie's son, Stewart Ryrie, Jun., on behalf of its new owner, Dr. F. L. Wallace.[4] Later, it was a part of the extensive landholdings of William Bradley.[3]

It is now owned and managed, by the John and Betty Casey Research Trust, as a working farm promoting best practice primary production and land management, and to preserve the historic homestead and garden.[5][6]

The Coolringdon homestead is renown for its garden. Its old schoolhouse is a part of the original homestead building and is over 190 years old.[3]

Coolringdon is notable as being one of the proposed sites for Australia's national capital, prior to the selection of Canberra.[7][8] It had a public school from 1879 to 1918.[9]

Reference section[]

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Coolringdon". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 19 September 2021. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Studies, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (9 September 2021). "Map of Indigenous Australia". aiatsis.gov.au. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d Dixon, Trisha (1998). "COOLRINGDON GARDEN - Monaro, N.S.W." (PDF). Australian Garden History Society. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 March 2018.
  4. ^ "STEWART RYRIE". www.monaropioneers.com. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Coolringdon - Website - Local Land Services". www.lls.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  6. ^ Burns, Stephen (20 July 2021). "Coolringdon leads research on the Monaro". The Land. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  7. ^ "FEDERAL CAPITAL: PROPOSED SITES, 1904. - SOUTHERN MONARO DISTRICT. SECOND REPORT (WITH PLANS), BY C. R. SCRIVENER, SURVEYOR". Trove. Retrieved 19 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Scrivener, C. R. (Charles Robert) (1904). "Southern Monaro [cartographic material]". Trove. Retrieved 19 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "Coolringdon". nswgovschoolhistory.cese.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 19 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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