Murringo
Tiny and largely untouched historic village
Murringo is a tiny historic village located 25 km east of
Young and 406 km from Sydney (via Young). It is one of those
Australian villages where time has stood still. Driving
through it today it is hard to imagine that in the 1850s,
when the whole area was awash with bushrangers and gold
prospectors, a newspaper described the town as 'a public
thoroughfare and rendezvous for horse stealers and
bushrangers, being in the very heart of the lawless
district'.
Not surprisingly there has been controversy over the
town's name. When the surveyors laid out the town in 1849
the local landowner, John Scarr, was calling his property
Marengo, probably after the Italian town where Napoleon had
defeated the Austrian Army in 1800. The surveyors ignored
this spelling and marked Murringo on their plans. Then, over
the years, a whole variety of names gained currency. At
various times the village was called Meringo, Marringa,
Muringo, Murringo, Maringo, Maringa and Marengo. It wasn't
until 1926, when the local post office's name was changed,
that the official name became Murringo.
Although the town was not officially surveyed until 1849
a government return in 1840 shows that, although it was
beyond the limits of settlement, there were 43 people living
on three properties in the district. The Marengo station,
which accounted for 21 of these people, had been settled
since about 1833.
The township grew up around Marengo station. It was
planned as a substantial centre and the survey included a
market place, a large cemetery and an extensive recreation
area. This would have occurred but gold was discovered at
Lambing Flat (near present-day Young) in 1860 and most of
the development of the area moved to the goldfields.
The village was never large. In 1861 there were 128
residents; in 1871 this had dropped to 119. Still this did
not deter the local residents. In 1865 a tea meeting was
held and £200 was raised to build Christ Church Anglican
Church. It was designed by Reverend Soares and completed in
1866. It still stands.
A few years later in 1871 a collection was taken up at
Michael O'Connor's hotel and in 1874 the foundation stone of
the Sacred Heart Catholic Church was laid. A convent school
was attached to the church and continued to operate until
the 1860s.
In 1857 a post office was established in Joseph Hancock's
general store. It was moved to the school in 1860 and
continued to operate there until 1879. In 1971 the postal
services were returned to the town's General Store.
If you want to experience what life in a New South Wales
country town was like 120 years ago Murringo is remarkably
untouched and unchanged.
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