Jugiong, New South Wales
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| Jugiong New South Wales |
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 Entering Jugiong at the old Hume Highway |
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| Population: | 250 (within 7 km radius) |
| Postcode: | 2726 |
| Elevation: | 303 m (994 ft) |
| Location: | |
| LGA: | Harden Shire Council |
| County: | Harden |
| State District: | Burrinjuck |
Jugiong is a small village on the bank of the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales, Australia. It is 344 km south west of Sydney on the Hume Highway. The first people to live in the area were indigenous Australians, the Wiradjuri people. The first European explorers were Hamilton Hume (1797 - 1873) and William Hovell in 1824. Henry O'Brien started farming sheep a couple of years later. Explorer Charles Sturt reached the Murrumbidgee at Jugiong in 1829 at the start of his travels down the river.
In 1845 an Irishman named John Philip Sheahan (died December 9, 1877, aged 61 years[1]) built the Sir George Tavern (an hotel) which made Jugiong an important resting place on the new road to Melbourne. The building was destroyed in a flood in 1852. Sheahan rebuilt the hotel with walls up to 500 mm thick and it is still in use, and still owned by the Sheahan family. It is the oldest family owned hotel in Australia[2].
On November 15, 1864 bushrangers (thieves) stopped all traffic including the mail stagecoach (a cart pulled by horses) 5 km south of Jugiong. Over 60 people were stopped by the bushrangers. They wanted to steal (take with force) gold, money and other valuables. The bushrangers were Ben Hall (1837 - 1865), John Gilbert (1842 – 1865) and John Dunn (1846 - 1866). In the attack one policeman, Sergeant Edmund Parry was shot dead by John Gilbert.
A song called The Road to Jugiong [3]with words by Robert John Cassidy (1880 - 1948) and music by James A.Steele was published by Allans, Melbourne, in 1940.
