Coolringdon

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Coolringdon
New South Wales
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Coolringdon
Location in New South Wales
Coolringdon
Coordinates 36°15′03″S149°00′55″E / 36.25083°S 149.01528°E / -36.25083; 149.01528
Population73 (2021 census) [1]
Postcode(s) 2630
Location
LGA(s) Snowy Monaro Regional Council
Region Southern Tablelands
County Beresford
Parish Coolringdon
State electorate(s) Monaro
Federal division(s) Eden-Monaro
Localities around Coolringdon:
Rhine Falls Wambrook Dairymans Plains
MiddlingbankCoolringdon Pine Valley
Berridale Arable Rock Flat

Coolringdon is a locality in the Local Government Area of the Snowy Monaro Regional Council, in the Monaro region of New South Wales, Australia. It lies in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, west of Cooma. At the 2021 census, there were 73 people usually residing in Coolringdon. [1] The Cooma-Snowy Mountains Airport is located within the locality. Coolringdon is notable as being one of the proposed sites for Australia's national capital, prior to the selection of Canberra. [2] [3]

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History

The area now known as Coolringdon lies on the traditional lands of the Ngarigo people. [4] Called 'Coolerandong' by early colonial settlers, [5] it is likely that the name of Coolringdon is derived from an Aboriginal language word that has been anglicised.

The area lay outside the Nineteen Counties, and settlers had no legal right—even under colonial law—to occupy land there, until 1836, after which grazing rights could be obtained by payment of a licence fee.

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Coolrington Homestead c.1900

The locality takes its name from a sheep station of the same name, which dates from 1829, and was one of the earliest colonial settlements in the Monaro. It was taken up as a squatting run by Stewart Ryrie, Deputy Commissary General of N.S.W. and patriarch of the Ryrie family of colonial settlers. [5] By 1845, it was being managed by Stewart Ryrie's son, Stewart Ryrie, Jun., on behalf of its new owner, Dr Francis Lascelles Wallace, Stewart Ryrie's son-in-law. [6]

Later, it was a part of the extensive landholdings of William Bradley, [5] and then once again returned to the Wallace family, the three nephews of Dr. F. L. Wallace. [7]

It is now owned and managed, by the John and Betty Casey Research Trust, as a working farm promoting best practice primary production and land management, and to preserve the historic homestead and garden. [8] [9]

A public school was established in 1879 and operated until 1918. [10]

Attractions

The well preserved Coolringdon Homestead is over 190 years old and is renowned for its heritage garden and school house. [5]

The Snowy River Sphere, a sculpture by artist Richard Moffatt, is made from steel beams left over from construction of the Skitube Alpine Railway and inspired by the rivers, ski runs and indigenous pathways of the region. It was commissioned by the Snowy River Shire Council to mark the gateway to the region and installed at Coolringdon beside the Kosciuszko Road in 2011. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Coolringdon". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 3 June 2023. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ "FEDERAL CAPITAL: PROPOSED SITES, 1904. - SOUTHERN MONARO DISTRICT. SECOND REPORT (WITH PLANS), BY C. R. SCRIVENER, SURVEYOR". Trove. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  3. ↑ Scrivener, C. R. (Charles Robert) (1904). "Southern Monaro [cartographic material]". Trove. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  4. ↑ Studies, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (9 September 2021). "Map of Indigenous Australia". aiatsis.gov.au. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Dixon, Trisha (1998). "COOLRINGDON GARDEN - Monaro, N.S.W." (PDF). Australian Garden History Society. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "STEWART RYRIE". www.monaropioneers.com. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  7. ↑ "The Late Mr. H. Wallace". Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser. 31 July 1925. p. 2. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  8. ↑ "Coolringdon - Website - Local Land Services". www.lls.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  9. ↑ Burns, Stephen (20 July 2021). "Coolringdon leads research on the Monaro". The Land. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  10. ↑ "Coolringdon". nswgovschoolhistory.cese.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  11. ↑ "Snowy River Sphere". Snowy Monaro Regional Council . Retrieved 3 June 2023.
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