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Coordinates:34°38′30″S148°01′30″E/ 34.64167°S 148.02500°E/-34.64167; 148.02500
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Cootamundra
New South Wales
The CBC bank building and post office on Wallendoon St
Cootamundra is located in New South Wales
Cootamundra
Cootamundra
Coordinates34°38′30″S148°01′30″E/ 34.64167°S 148.02500°E/-34.64167; 148.02500
Population5,732 (UCL2021)[1]
Established1861
Postcode(s)2590
Elevation318 m (1,043 ft)
Location
LGA(s)Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council
CountyHarden
State electorate(s)Cootamundra
Federal division(s)Riverina
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
22.3 °C
72 °F		 7.8 °C
46 °F		 614.3 mm
24.2 in

Cootamundra,nicknamedCoota,is a town in theSouth West Slopesregion ofNew South Wales,Australia and within theRiverina.It is within theCootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council.At the 2016 Census, Cootamundra had a population of 6,782. It is located on theOlympic Highwayat the point where it crosses the Muttama Creek, betweenJuneeandCowra.Its railway station is on theMain Southern line,part of the Melbourne-to-Sydney line.

Cootamundra is the birthplace ofSir Donald BradmanAC,an Australiancricketeruniversally regarded as the greatestbatsmanof all time. It is also known for being the site ofCootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls,an institution housingAboriginal girls who were forcibly taken from their families.

It is also the home of theCootamundra wattle.Every year there is a large "Wattle Time" Festival held at the time the wattle starts to bloom, with an art show and festivities.

History

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Thetraditional ownersof the area where present day Cootamundra exists are considered to be theWiradjuripeople, with the name "Cootamundra" probably deriving from theWiradjuri languagewordguudhamangfor "turtle".[2]

Parker St, the main street of Cootamundra

Cootamundra was incorporated as a township on 9 August 1861, and the first settlers bought their lots in early 1862. Like many other towns in the Riverina, it was originally populated by those attracted by thegold rushof the 1860s but became a quiet yet prosperous agricultural community after the local deposits were exhausted. However, the potential sale of a recently disused mine near Adelong may have piqued the curiosity of would-be prospectors.[3]

It is one of theoldest townsin Australia.

The town'srugby leagueteam, theCootamundra Bulldogs,competed in theMaher Cup.[citation needed]

Birthplace of Sir Donald Bradman
Bradman statue in Jubilee Park

Timeline

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  • 1837 – John Hurley and Patrick Fennell licensed to stockCoramundra Run[4]
  • 1847 –Cootamundry Run,a large stock run, is the first colonist settlement in the area.
  • 1860 – Plan of proposed village drawn up by surveyorPhilip Francis Adams[4]
  • 1861 – The site of Cootamundry is published in the NSW Government Gazette
  • 1862 – Gold mining commences at the nearby 'Muttama Reef' mine.
First town lots sold by auction atGundagai[4]
  • 1864 – The first church (Anglican) and post office are established
  • 1874 — Convent for the Presentation Order of nuns opened by (Catholic) Bishop of Goulburn
  • 1875 – The first school in the district opens.
  • 1877 – First issue ofCootamundra Heraldpublished by Frederick Pinkstone and Thomas Campbell Brown[4]
Cootamundra's railway connection opens on 1 November.
Public school opens on Cooper Street[4]
  • 1878 – Christ Church (Anglican) of England opens[5]
  • 1879 – St Columba's (Catholic) church opens[6]
  • 1881 – Post Office (the current building) opened[4]
  • 1882 – First Show held at Albert Park
  • 1884 – Cootamundra is gazetted as a municipality and John Frederick Barnes elected first mayor.[4]
  • 1885 —Salt Clay Creek railway disaster- seven killed and dozens injured when culvert collapsed
  • 1886 – Solomon Cohen establishes his store, corner of Wallendoon and Parker streets
  • 1889 – First hospital opens on hill north east of the town, becameBimbadeen Aboriginal Girls' Homein 1911.
  • 1893 – Dam on Hardy's Folly Creek constructed as town's water supply, but never satisfactory[4]
Bank of NSW building (the current Westpac) constructed[4]
Farmers' and Settlers' Associationfounded
  • 1896 – Cootamundra Cycling Club. It is probably the oldest continual club in NSW, although as was the case with most clubs it went into recess during the war years.
  • 1908 –Donald Bradman(later Sir Donald) is born in Cootamundra.
  • 1911–1968 –Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girlsopens in former hospital.
  • 1928 – Cootamundra is first town to receive Burrinjuck hydro-electric power.[7]
  • 1933 – Water from Burrinjuck replaces supply from bores and Hardy's Folly Dam.[8]
  • 1942 – On 3 December, the corvetteHMASCootamundra,named for the town, is launched.
  • 1951 – Cootamundra Jazz Band is formed by John Ansell.
  • 1952 – Name of Cootamundry officially changed to Cootamundra.[9]
  • 1955 – The firstCootamundra Annual Classiccycling handicap race, one of the oldest open races in NSW.
  • 1956 – Cootamundra'srugby leaguefootball club'sBill Marshis first selected to play for theAustralian national team.
  • 1960 – Cootamundra BluesAustralian rules footballclub is established.[10]
  • 1982 – In November 1982, aviation company Masling Industries is formed. This was restructured in June 1993 after the death of its owner.
  • 1986 – Popular Australian singer/songwriter/bush poetJohn R Williamsonreleased his song 'Cootamundra Wattle'.
  • 1998 – Phase 1 ofCricket Captains' Walkdeclared open; all busts the work ofHarden–Murrumburrahsculptor Carl Valerius
  • 2000 – The first annual beach volleyball competition. Truckloads of sand are deposited in a main street for "Coota Beach" (punning reference toKutaBeach in Bali, Indonesia).
  • 2015 – Australian youth radio stationTriple Jfeatured the 'Cootamundra bonus weather rap'.

Churches

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The first churches in Cootamundra were:

Primitive Methodist

Rev. Smith was minister from around 1874, succeeded by J. Spalding, who was minister in 1877, and services were held on alternate Sunday afternoons.

Wesleyan Methodist

The church, seating 100 persons, was opened on 17 December 1876. Rev. G. Thompson was minister in 1878[11]and services were held regularly.[12]In 1880 Rev. R. East was the only minister resident in the town.[13]

Anglican

Christ Church opened on 12 July 1878; the vicar W. Cocks shared with Murrumburrah. In January 1880 Rev. S. B. Holt left Gundagai to take up the position.

Roman Catholic

Eighty confirmations were performed in 1875 in conjunction with a jubilee attended by Bishop Lanigan of Goulburn and Fathers Bermingham (Burrowa), Dunne and O'Dwyer (Gundagai), and Hanley (Goulburn).[14] Mass was held fortnightly in the schoolroom by visiting priests from Gundagai.[15] St Columba's church was consecrated on 30 November 1879.[16] The first resident pastor was Rev. Richard Butler in 1881.

Military history

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DuringWorld War II,Cootamundra was the location ofRAAF No.3 Inland Aircraft Fuel Depot (IAFD),completed in 1942 and closed on 14 June 1944. It was located in an area of land near the intersection of Olympic Highway and Thompson Street. Usually consisting of 4 tanks, 31 fuel depots were built across Australia for the storage and supply of aircraft fuel for theRAAFand theUS Army Air Forcesat a total cost of £900,000 ($1,800,000).[17]

It was also home to the No 1 Air Observers School, commemorated by a plaque at Cootamundra Airfield.

A plane from the No. 31 Beaufighter Squadron, RAAF, from Wagga Wagga, crashed nearby on 21 September 1942 during training exercises, resulting in the death of Flt/Sgt J. E. Jenkins and Sgt V. Sutherst. A memorial alongside the main road toYoung,dedicated on 28 April 1990,[18]is regularly tended. See Gallery below.

Heritage listings

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Aerial view of Cootamundra

Cootamundra has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

Description and attractions

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Cootamundra is located in theSouth West Slopesregion ofNew South Wales,within theRiverinaregion.

It is within thelocal government areaofCootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council.Abb McAlister was elected mayor of the newly-formed Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council on 21 September 2017.[23]

The town is known as the birthplace of the great cricketerSir Donald Bradman.Although he never lived in the town and his parents leftYeo Yeo(some 18km from Cootamundra) when he was two, the town celebrates this connection with the Sir Donald Bradman Birthplace Museum, the home where "The Don" was born, a fully restored visitors' site featuring cricketing memorabilia and artefacts.[24]

The Coota Ex-Services Club is an ex-servicemen's club that is open to the public as a restaurant.[25]

Hemet, California,is asister city.[26]

Cricket Captains' Walk

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Cricket Captains' Walk

In 1998 a collection of 14 captains of the Australia International Test XI cricket team was unveiled in Jubilee Park, adjacent the Caravan Park. Specially commissioned, they were all the work ofHarden-Murrumburrahsculptor Carl Valerius.[citation needed]

In 2008 a further 30 busts were installed on either side of a looping path, making a full set of Australian Test cricket captains, with three more added in 2020 to bring the list up to date. These are by various artists from theTom Bass sculpture studio.The all-weather path, which starts and ends at Wallendoon Street is family, jogger, and wheelchair friendly, and approximately 250 metres long.[citation needed]

A life-sized bronze statue of Bradman in action, also by Valerius, is nearby, as is a newly-installed barbecue and playground. Jubilee Park, the site of these attractions, is on land reclaimed from the original stock dam, memorialised by a plaque on the Morgan Arch on Wallendoon Street.[citation needed]

The Giant

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"The Giant"

The large effigy of afairytale giantgesturing towards to his crotch was created by an unknown artist around 1975 infibreglassas a mascot for "The Giant Supermarket" on the corner of Cooper and Wallendoon streets.

This location was in 1882 the site of Kibby's "Trade Palace" department store;[27]and taken over by Solomon Cohen (c. 1848–1922) in 1886.[28]In 1943 it became "Cohen's Corner",[29]a name which endures to this day. "Hammond and Hanlon" were tenants in 1962 and "The Giant" in 1975, subsequently "U-Mark-it", "Half-case Warehouse", "Payless", and "Food World". It next became Mark Ward's hardware store, then "GV Bargains".

When the statue was taken down it was purchased by Allan and Phuong Jenkins, who ran a florist shop nearby. In 1985 Allan participated in a Round-Australia marathon run byRotary Internationaland the Australian Cancer Society as a fundraiser, and his support vehicle was surmounted by "The Giant". In 2014 the Jenkins couple donated the statue to the Cootamundra Heritage Centre.[citation needed]

Local artist Jim Newman did its original paintwork back in 1975, and his brother Robert Newman was responsible for its restoration in 2015.[30]The statue is located alongside the Heritage Centre on Hovell Street, near the railway station.

The Giant,[31]along with Don Bradman's Bat and Stumps in Bradman Oval,[32]are considered to be two of Australia's manyBig Things.

Population

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According to the2016 Australian census,there were 6,782 people in Cootamundra. Of these:[33]

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 5.6% of the population.
  • 85.6% of people were born in Australia. The next most common country of birth was England at 2.1%.
  • 91.6% of people spoke only English at home.
  • The most common responses for religion were Catholic 30.8%, Anglican 28.4% and No Religion 16.4%.
Historical population
YearPop.±%
19211,748—
19334,683+167.9%
19475,259+12.3%
19545,760+9.5%
19615,939+3.1%
19666,219+4.7%
19716,530+5.0%
19766,384−2.2%
19816,540+2.4%
19866,314−3.5%
19916,386+1.1%
19965,879−7.9%
20015,486−6.7%
20065,566+1.5%
20115,579+0.2%
20165,669+1.6%
20215,732+1.1%
Source:Australian Bureau of Statisticsdata.[34][35]

Transport

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Cootamundra railway station

Cootamundra railway stationis located on theMain Southern railway line,with passengers served in each direction by twice dailyNSW TrainLinkXPTrailway services between Sydney and Melbourne, and the twice weeklyXplorerrailway services to Griffith. Interstate freight trains also pass through the town.

Regional Rail Logisticspreviously operated acontainerised freightservice from Junee to Sydney stopping in the town,[36]

Preceding station NSW TrainLink Following station
Junee
towardsGriffithorMelbourne
 NSW TrainLink Southern Line
Griffith Xplorer
Melbourne XPT
 Harden
towardsSydney
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Cootamundra acts as a hub for coach services, run byTransport for NSW,to other regional centres with departures and arrivals timed to connect with certainNew South Wales XPTtrain arrivals. The exception is Services 704/703 (coloured row), provided for those who have business in Canberra civic, the major hospitals, or to connect with the Canberra–Sydney rail service (three trains per day both directions).

Seats are allocated and must be booked ahead.[37]must be consulted for conditions of travel and coach stop locations. On-line booking and more information[38]

Destination/s Other stops Service # Frequency Return # Frequency Notes
Condobolin see timetable 717 Daily 718 Daily
Tumbarumba see timetable 723 Tue/Thu/Sun 724 Tue/Thu/Sun
Griffith, Hay, Mildura see timetable 725 Daily 726 Daily ~20 min. refreshment stop at Hay
Yass Junction, Canberra, Queanbeyan see timetable 782 Daily 781 Daily ~15 min. stop at Yass Junction. Wheelchairaccess
Parkes, Dubbo see timetable 791 Mon/Wed/Sat 792 Sun/Tue/Thu Wheelchair access
Orange, Bathurst see timetable 793 Tue/Thu/Fri/Sun 794 Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat
Major stop on route: Wagga Wagga–Cootamundra–Canberra–Queanbeyan see timetable[39] 704[40] Tue/Thu/Sat (morning) 703[41] Tue/Thu/Sat (evening) currently (2019) a trial service, trial timetable, Wheelchairaccess

Airport

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Cootamundra Airport,is one of the oldest country airports outside of Mascot to be continually licensed.

From 1991 to 2002 local business Country Connection Airlines offered regional flights from Cootamundra to Sydney, as well as to many other regional locations such as West Wyalong, Cowra, Forbes and Young.

Sport

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Cootamundra has a long and proud sporting history, with the region most notably producingSir Donald Bradman,the greatesttest cricketerever.

Today, the most popular sport in Cootamundra isrugby league.The local team, the Cootamundra Bulldogs, compete in theGeorge Tooke Shieldcompetition, which is part of the broaderCanberra Rugby League.The club formerly competed in theGroup 9 Rugby Leaguecompetition, in which they were among the most successful clubs, winning nine titles, and their junior sides remain in this league. The club famously producedLes Boyd,whom the club's home ground is named after,Eric Weissel,andPaul Field,a local player who was picked to representNew South Walesin the1983 State of Origin series,one of only three players to ever be selected for the side from aCountry Rugby Leagueclub.

Cootamundra also has anAustralian rules footballside, nicknamed the Blues, who play in theAFL Canberralower divisions, and arugby unionteam, the Cootamundra Tri-Colours, in theCentral West Rugby UnionDivision 3 South. The region also has a strong local cricket competition.

Notable residents

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Climate

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Cootamundra has hot, dry summers interspersed with severe thunderstorms and the oddcold front,and cool, cloudy winters with many rain days. Occasionally, snow may fall during the winter months, with the most recent snowfall having occurred in August 2019. Under theKöppen climate classificationscheme, the town has ahumid subtropical climate(Cfa), receiving enough precipitation to avoid thecold semi-arid(BSk) climate classification.

Climate data forCootamundra Airport(1995–2022); 335 m AMSL; 34.63° S, 148.04° E
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 45.0
(113.0) 		43.0
(109.4) 		39.7
(103.5) 		33.5
(92.3) 		27.0
(80.6) 		22.0
(71.6) 		20.5
(68.9) 		24.8
(76.6) 		30.2
(86.4) 		34.9
(94.8) 		41.0
(105.8) 		42.2
(108.0) 		45.0
(113.0)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 32.1
(89.8) 		30.4
(86.7) 		27.2
(81.0) 		22.7
(72.9) 		17.5
(63.5) 		13.9
(57.0) 		13.0
(55.4) 		14.6
(58.3) 		18.3
(64.9) 		22.4
(72.3) 		26.1
(79.0) 		29.3
(84.7) 		22.3
(72.1)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 16.1
(61.0) 		15.5
(59.9) 		12.4
(54.3) 		7.5
(45.5) 		3.5
(38.3) 		2.2
(36.0) 		1.2
(34.2) 		1.5
(34.7) 		3.5
(38.3) 		6.3
(43.3) 		10.4
(50.7) 		13.0
(55.4) 		7.8
(46.0)
Record low °C (°F) 2.0
(35.6) 		2.9
(37.2) 		0.9
(33.6) 		−4.0
(24.8) 		−6.5
(20.3) 		−7.3
(18.9) 		−7.8
(18.0) 		−7.0
(19.4) 		−6.0
(21.2) 		−3.5
(25.7) 		−1.4
(29.5) 		2.1
(35.8) 		−7.8
(18.0)
Averageprecipitationmm (inches) 49.3
(1.94) 		52.3
(2.06) 		53.9
(2.12) 		35.3
(1.39) 		38.0
(1.50) 		60.7
(2.39) 		58.5
(2.30) 		58.4
(2.30) 		52.9
(2.08) 		48.6
(1.91) 		64.6
(2.54) 		52.7
(2.07) 		614.3
(24.19)
Average precipitation days(≥ 0.2 mm) 6.8 5.4 6.5 5.1 7.6 10.8 12.9 11.8 9.0 8.5 8.4 6.7 99.5
Average afternoonrelative humidity(%) 33 38 38 43 53 66 65 61 53 46 39 36 48
Source: Bureau of Meteorology[48]
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  • In The Two Ronnies' sketch "The Australians", Cootamundra is the location of their travel agency.[49]
  • Leonard Hubbard recorded the song "Cootamundra" in 1924.[50]
  • TheCootamundra Jazz Band(1951–1960) was one of Australia's foremostDixielandgroups
  • John Williamsonrecorded the song "Cootamundra Wattle" in 1986.[51]
  • Cootamundra was long described as the town of "railway engines, wide streets and white ways" (illuminated roads)[52]
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  • Cootamundra looking NE; railway station at centre
    Cootamundra looking NE; railway station at centre
  • Cootamundra looking SW, railway station at top
    Cootamundra looking SW, railway station at top
  • Plaques at Cootamundra Aerodrome
    Plaques at Cootamundra Aerodrome
  • Roadside memorial
    Roadside memorial
  • Roadside plaque
    Roadside plaque
  • Coota Beach Volleyball
    Coota Beach Volleyball

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