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