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Ivanhoe
Small quiet service centre in Outback New South Wales
Ivanhoe is a quiet, unassuming town characterised by a
particularly wide main street. Located 826 km west of Sydney
via the Great and Mid Western Highways and 90 metres above
sea-level it has some 500 residents.
The town was originally situated on a well-used route
across flat, western New South Wales between Wilcannia and
both Balranald and Booligal.
George Williamson purchased the first land in the area
between 1869 and 1873 and became a central figure in the
town's development. He established a branch store with a
liquor license in 1870. At that stage the store and a bark
hut constituted the town. The Ivanhoe Hotel came into
existence by 1872 and a Post Office opened on January 1,
1874.
The town's name probably came from Williamson who named
it after Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe. Williamson was a
Scot and there were a number of Scots in the area. They
looked to their country of origin (and its most famous
novelist) for other local place names - Mossgiel, Glenro,
Waverley (another novel by Scott) and Abbotsford (Scott's
birthplace).
A telegraph station opened in 1883, by which time there
were about 50 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 1884. A police station opened the
following year and a school in 1889. Ivanhoe was proclaimed
a village in 1890. The arrival of the railway in 1925, and
the completion of the line from Sydney to Broken Hill in
1927, was a definite boost to the town.
There is little information available on the local
Aborigines. However it is clear that there was, in general,
intense and violent conflict over European settlement of the
far west of NSW until the 1850s and 1860s. On the shore of
Boolaboolka Lake, to the east, a group of whites shot a
entire tribe and left the skeletons to bleach in the sun.
The Carowra Tank Aboriginal Settlement was later
established under the supervision of the Mossgiel police and
a local resident recalls no conflict from this period. In
the 1930s the tank dried up and the Aborigines moved away
although some have, over time, made their way back.
Today Ivanhoe is a railhead and service centre for the
surrounding pastoral industry and a stopover for those
travelling on the Cobb Highway.
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