Tumut

The place Tumut is located in the region of Riverina in New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the banks of the Tumut River. Tumut is at the foothills of the Snowy Mountains and is known as the gateway to the Snowy Mountains Hydro - system. In Tumut, Tumut Shire Council which is in, is the management of this Council. The place is located 410 km southwest of Sydney and 180 kilometers west of Canberra.

History

Aboriginal

Tumut was originally designated Dumot. It is a name from an Aboriginal word for " resting place by the river ." The Wiradjuri and Ngunnawal lived in these areas for about 20,000 years. Before European settlement, Tumut marked the boundaries of three tribes of Aborigines, where they gathered to hike in the Snowy Mountains, when the Bogong moths were in the caterpillar stage. There, they gathered the masses occurring Bogong moths as food in order to roast in sand or ashes, and then to eat in one piece.

European

In the 1820s, the European colonizers arrived along the Murrumbidgee River and in 1824, Hamilton Hume and William Hovell on their expedition arrived at the Tumut River. The Tumut Post Office was opened on 1 January 1849.

The village grew fast and in 1856 there was a school and three hotels. In 1860, a newspaper reported of a cricket club in Tumut. When the gold rush in Kiandra in 1860 began about 1200 gold miners have gone through the place in the Snowy Mountains. With the Gold Rush also bush predators such as William Brookman came with his gang of robbers Blue Cap -speed and James Kelly, brother of Ned Kelly in the place. In 1880, there were 18 pubs in the town and today there are only six. The town was declared a city in 1887, which was coined in spite of the gold rush by agriculture. 1867 a bridge over the Murrumbidgee River was built, and a railway line was laid in 1884 by Gundagai to Tumut, which was completed in 1903.

Tumut has been included as one of ten areas in 1908 of the Australian Capital Territory. The other areas were: Albury, Armidale, Bombala, Dalgety, Lake George, Orange, Tooma, Lyndhurst and Yass - Canberra.

Since 1950, the town became a center of the region. A butter factory was built, which now houses the tourist office and the wood industry located itself. Part of the population worked from 1949 in the dam project Snowy Mountains system at the nearby Blowering Dam, on the Talbingo Dam and livestock of sheep and cattle.

In Tumut there are many historic buildings, of which the Anglican Church, which was designed by Edmund Blacket, the most important is. Other historic buildings include Tumut Courthouse and Police Station, Oriental Hotel, Corner Bank and Lombardy Poplars.

Wood industry

Tumut is a center of the timber industry with sawmills and paper mills, 20 to 30 percent of the population of Tumut works there. The largest plant is the Carter Holt Harvey Wood Products at the Adelong Road in the direction of the Snowy Mountains Highway and eight miles further she has another branch in Gilmore. The paper mill Visy pulp and paper mill is located north of the Snowy Mountains Highway at Gadara, between Tumut and Adelong. This paper mill is the only site that manufactures wooden paper, the other mills make paper from recycled material here.