Location
Tahmoor is a small town in the Macarthur Region of New South Wales, Australia, in Wollondilly Shire. (wikipedia)
History
Originally named Myrtle Creek, it was a farming area on the Great Southern Road, later named the Hume Highway.
When the new Main Southern Railway line opened in 1919, it included a railway station named Tahmoor. This name was contested by a local businessman, who wished to establish a town called Bronzewing Park, but his claim was rejected. The town had recently been named “Tahmoor”, a local Aboriginal word for the common bronzewing, (Phaps chalcoptera) a native pigeon often seen in the area.
The Bargo River passes just south of the town; the Bargo River Crossing on the Great South Road was so notoriously difficult for travellers, causing many delays and accidents, that it has even passed into Australian folklore, in the form of the song Stringybark and Greenhide.
The uncleared scrub (‘brush’) on the opposite bank was known as the Bargo Brush, and was much feared as the haunt of escaped convicts turned bushranger. The road through the Bargo Brush was often all but impassible.
In time, increasing numbers of orchardists and dairy farmers needed to send their produce more safely to local railheads. These factors all hastened the construction of a road bridge (1898) and diversion of the Main South Line from further westwards (1919), to pass through this area. (wikipedia)
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