Albury, the town

...a place in the KellyGang story 

Location

located north of Wodonga in New South Wales on the Murray River

Beginings

The Aboriginals called the area Yarra-wuddah- red sand
Albury was largely established on the site of Mungabareena by the Huon family by 1836.

Importance of Albury

Albury is on the River Murray on the boarder between the colonies of Victoria and New South Wales and on the main inland route from Melbourne to Sydney.
First Doctor , Dr Creighton of Doctors Point, arrived in 1841
First Albury Cup horse race 1844
First postmaster appointed 1847
First courthouse built 1847
First paddle steamer arrived in Albury, the Albury, 1855
Border Morning Mail first published 1856
Albury was linked to the capital cities by electric telegraph by 1858.
Albury Hospital opened in Thurgoona St 1861.
Union Bridge 1861
Mechanics Institute 1864
Horse race meetings (OMA18/1/79)
Riverine Association 1864 (wanted a new colony)
Public Library 1870
The Albury show (Argus14/10/78)
Would the railway line from Melbourne end in Albury or Wodonga (Argus22/8/68)
It would be better if the Wodonga Albury road was fixed up (Argus18/1/70)
Albury railway station - line from Sydney completed 1881 (line from Victorian side arrived in 1883)
Representatives from Albury attended a major meeting to plan for the coming of the railways (Argus15/7/67)

What was Albury like in the late 1870s

The basic lay out of the main town area had been completed.
It was also clear that Albury rather than Wodonga was the regional commercial centre with many more shops and other services.
The railway ran from Melbourne to Wodonga and from Sydney to near Albury
W.Davidsons saddliery (Eustace & McCulloch) established 1874
The Botanical Gardens were opened in 1877.
Albury Banner owned by George Adams, (founded by Samuel Blackmore)
See also (OMA18/1/79)

Facilities in Albury in the late 1870s

Austral House Hotel, Archie Blair
Commercial 1842
Exchange Hotel, (Lewis Jones)
Rose Hotel, John Nichols (Argus17/1/81)

Church of England 1857, Rev DE Jones 1875
Catholic Church 1858
Presbyterian Church 1858
Wesleyan Church 1864
Union Church

National School 1856
School 1862 Olive & Smollett St
Albury Grammar School 1870

Bank of New South Wales 1956
Commercial Bank 1858

 

Bridge between Wodonga and Albury, problem (Argus22/1/79)

Doctors
Dr Robert Newberry Cobbett
Dr Berkeley W Hutchinson
Dr Jeffery J Keatinge

Races
There was a problem with Mr Whitty and his horse. (Argus27/1/79)

Telegraph operator M'Gaurin (Alexandra30/3/1878)

Links to the KellyGang

Lots of stolen Victorian horses and cattle were taken over the boarder into New South Wales and sold at Albury by the KellyGang and their supporters in the late 1870s
In October 1878 Nicolson and Sadlier were sent on a goose chase to Albury on the day the KellyGang robbed the National Bank at Euroa. They arrived in Wodonga about midnight and heard about the robbery when they got to Albury. (RC2011)

Sup Singleton was in charge of the police in Albury during the hunt for the KellyGang.
See races at Albury, fire in town (OMA18/1/79)

Members of the Albury community

J Liddle, S Mudge (Argus15/7/67)
William Moffitt, the bank clerk dies in accident with revolver held as precaution against attack by the KellyGang (Argus)

 

 

 

 

What happened at Albury after the time of the KellyGang

What is happening at Albury today - a part of the Kelly Country and Ned Kelly's story

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