HISTORY of TAHMOOR

                                     Tahmoor means Bronzewing Pigeon.

                                    The Bronzewing Pigeon used to be important to

                                     the Aborigine people who used to live in the area.

                                       More than 190 years ago three white men came

                                                  into the area the year was1798,

                                   Their names were Wilson, Price and Roe, ex-convicts.

                                   Governor Hunter, was the boss in those days,

                                  he sent the

                                  three men from Penrith up the Nepean River.where     

                                  they found the Wollondilly area and were the

                                  first white men to see the lyrebird, wombat and

                                 the koala. After Wilson, Price and Roe came into

                                 the area, other white men followed, so they

                                 could farm the area. White men cleared the land

                                 and brought animals in and that deprived food

                                 from the Aborigines.The Aboriginal people had to

                                 find food, so they would kill a sheep or a cow.

                                 This led to lots of fighting between the black

                                 people and the white people which ended in

                                 a horrible long war that finished in 1916,

                                 When all the Aboriginal warriors were killed in a

                                 massacre in Appin which is another settlement 

                                 area in the Wollondilly Shire.

                           The Aboriginal people were killed and the settlers

                           started up farms and built roads so that goods could

                           be taken in and out of the area.

                           Eventually  more trees were needed in Sydney AND

                          Coal was also found in the area. So as well as the

                          roads being improved, the railway was extended

                          southwards.

                         The railway line  was established in Picton on the 1st

                          of June 1963 & Then they had to build a viaduct WHICH

                          WAS the first RAILWAY tunnel in Australia.     

                          The Old Hume Highway was built in 1930. Many thousands

                          of cars passed over it until the freeway was opened

                          some years later.

                          Until this very day Tahmoor is still growing extremely

                          fast and is becoming more of an urban town rather than

                          a rural little Township                          home