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Albury Region – NSW
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Corowa 2646
East Albury 2640
Glenroy 2640
Hamilton Valley 2641

Howlong 2643
Jindera 2642
Lavington 2641
North Albury 2640

South Albury 2640
Splitters Creek 2640
Springdale Hts 2641

Table Top 2640
Thurgoona 2640
West Albury 2640

What You Did Not Know About Albury 2640

Corowa Shire

Albury’s Lake Hume and Dam

Pioneer Museum Jinderra

Albury Botanic Gardens

Albury High School

Albury Region Local History

Albury – “Crossing Point” – “Millewa”

On 16 November 1824, explorers Hume and Hovell arrived at what their maps called “Crossing Point”. Hume named the river after his father. BUT…

1830, Captain Charles Sturt

discovered the Hume River at its junction with the Murrumbidgee River. Not realising it was the “Hume” he named it the Murray River. Hume eventually falling into disuse. The Wiradjuri Aboriginal’s name for the river was Millewa.

1843, Albury Post Office

opened 1st April but closed in 1845, then reopened in the township on 1 Feb1847.

1844 At Albury

a log punt established and serviced the crossing of the Murray river. By…

1847, Albury settlement

included two public houses and a handful of huts, a police barracks and a blacksmith.

1851 Albury a frontier town

with the separation of Victoria from New South Wales, and the border falling on the Murray River,.

1860, Albury became a Customs Post

between the two colonies because the first bridge across the Murray was built. . Albury was at this time starting to grow substantially with German speaking immigrants creating vineyards. You must visit the Jindera Museum.

1870S, Albury

builds a butter factory, flour mill, wineries and locally brewed cider were established.

1881, Albury a Railway Hub.

The railway line from Sydney arrived in Albury but NSW and Victoria had different gauges. It was not until 1962 when the first train ran direct from Sydney to Melbourne.