Emmaville, New South Wales

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Emmaville
New South Wales
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Emmaville
Coordinates 29°27′S151°36′E / 29.450°S 151.600°E / -29.450; 151.600
Population519 (2016 census) [1]
Postcode(s) 2371
Elevation890 m (2,920 ft)
Location
LGA(s) Glen Innes Severn Council
County Gough
State electorate(s) Northern Tablelands
Federal division(s) New England
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Ottery arsenic mine, near Emmaville.
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Post Office and war memorial, Emmaville, NSW
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Ottery Arsenic Mine - note the traces of arsenic on the bricks

Emmaville is a town on the Northern Tablelands in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the Glen Innes Severn Council district.

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Emmaville is at an elevation of 890 metres AHD. At the 2006 census, the Emmaville "urban centre/locality" had a population of 247 (in the 2001 census it was 303 [2] ) and there were 535 persons usually resident in the Emmaville region. [1] [3]

History

Emmaville is located on the lands of the Ngarabal people, and the area remains of great significance to them today. The Ngarabal name for the land where the township is now located is "Marran", meaning "plenty of leeches". [4]

Tin was first discovered on Strathbogie Station in 1872 and the settlement was called Vegetable Creek after the Chinese market gardens which developed to service the mining population. Being a private township it was never notified or proclaimed as a town or village. The population of the area in the early 1900s was about 7,000 and included 2,000 Chinese people. [5] It was renamed in 1882 after Emma Greville, the wife of the then state Governor Lord Augustus Loftus. [6] The name Vegetable Creek is preserved in the name of the local 17-bed hospital.

A school was established in 1875 and it had 70-80 pupils in its first year. [7] In 1927, the school moved to its present site.

Emmaville established the first medical fund in New South Wales, with aim of keeping a doctor in town and to build a hospital. In 1891, lectures were given at the hospital and the St John Ambulance Brigade was formed as a result of this. [8]

Tin and arsenic were mined at the Ottery Mine, Tent Hill not far from Emmaville, from 1882 when a huge tin lode was found by Alexander Ottery. The site has now been rehabilitated by the NSW Department of Mineral Resources and is open to tourists.

Emmaville Panther

This is described as "one of Australia's most famous manifestations of a cryptic animal". [9] It was variously said to be a large black panther or a marsupial lion, and was sighted in February 1958 [10] and on various occasions in the later 1950s and 1960s. There are no native big cats in Australia. One suggestion is that this beast escaped from a travelling circus whose owner chose not to report the escape. [11]

Emmaville today

Emmaville's industries are tourism, agriculture, and mining. There is a Mining Museum which includes a collection of mineral specimens and photographs of the town's history. Fossicking is a local tourist activity.

This neat and tidy village has a post office, general store, two craft shops, a swimming pool, a caravan site and two hotels. Emmaville also has a pre-school and a central public school with 60 primary and 28 secondary pupils. Since 2004 Emmaville School has catered for stage 6 students in year 11 and 12 although all of their studies except English and Maths are supplied by Dubbo school of Distance Education. [7] The Vegetable Creek Hospital in Emmaville has 13 residential beds, 4 acute beds and 2 accident and emergency beds a total of 19 beds and is part of the Hunter New England Local Health District. [12]

Media

Emmaville is served by community radio station 2CBD FM. As well as broadcasting on two local FM frequencies 91.1 Deepwater and 105.9 Glen Innes, it has a live 24/7 feed via the internet. The station is the only radio station with studios in Glen Innes and is run by volunteers and presents local information and a diverse mix of music. [13]

Heritage listings

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

Notable people

Notable people from or having lived in Emmaville include:

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References

  1. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Emmaville (L) (Urban Centre/Locality)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 8 November 2007.
  2. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (9 March 2006). "Emmaville (L) (Urban Centre/Locality)". 2001 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 8 November 2007. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. ↑ 2006 Census QuickStats : Emmaville (State Suburb)
  4. ↑ MacPherson, J. (1930). "Some Aboriginal place names in Northern New South Wales." Royal Australian Historical Society, Journal and Proceedings, 16 (2), 120-131.
  5. ↑ "Emmaville Mining Museum". Archived from the original on 30 December 2007. Retrieved 11 November 2007.
  6. ↑ Donald, J.Kay, Exploring the North Coast and New England, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, 1987.
  7. 1 2 "Emmaville Central School" . Retrieved 11 November 2007.
  8. ↑ Reader's Digest Guide to Australian Places, Reader's Digest, Sydney.
  9. ↑ "The Emmaville Panther". Thylacoleo.com. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
  10. ↑ "The Big Cat files: the Emmaville Panther". Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 8 November 2007.
  11. ↑ "The mystery of the Emmaville black panther". Glen Innes Examiner. 28 June 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  12. ↑ "Multipurpose services". New England Local Health District. NSW Government. Archived from the original on 31 March 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.Follow "Emmaville" link
  13. ↑ "About us". Radio 2CBD. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  14. ↑ "Ottery Mine". New South Wales State Heritage Register . Department of Planning & Environment. H00392. Retrieved 18 May 2018. CC BY icon.svg Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence .
  15. ↑ Vincent, David. "Atkinson, Richard Ashley (Dick) (1913–1944)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
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