Tuggeranong

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Location of Tuggeranong, Canberra.
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Tuggeranong Town Centre is located on Lake Tuggeranong


Tuggeranong is the southernmost town centre of Canberra, the capital city of Australia. It comprises 19 suburbs with a total of 30,662 dwellings, housing 86,637 people of the 311,518 people in the Australian Capital Territory (June 2001 Census). The district occupies 117 square kilometres to the east of the Murrumbidgee River.

Tuggeranong is in a valley of the Brindabella Ranges. Cave paintings and Aboriginal artifacts discovered in the area indicate that the Tuggeranong region has been occupied for over 21,000 years. The name is derived from an Aboriginal expression meaning "cold plains". Tuggeranong is colloquially known as "North Cooma".

History

In 1821, a third expedition to the area known as the Limestone Plains led by Charles Throsby found the Murrumbidgee River and the valley now occupied by the Tuggeranong district. In 1823 Joseph Wild was employed by Brigade Major John Ovens and Captain Mark Currie to guide them to the Murrumbidgee. They travelled south along the river and named the area now known as Tuggeranong Isabella's Plain in honour of Governor Brisbane's infant daughter. Unable to cross the river near the current site of Tharwa, they continued on to the Monaro Plains. The last expedition in the region was undertaken by Allan Cunningham in 1824. Cunningham's reports verified that the region was suitable for grazing, and the settlement of the Limestone Plains followed immediately thereafter.

In 1828, the bushranger John Tennant, known as the 'Terror of Argyle', was captured by James Ainslie and two others near the Murrumbidgee River in Tuggeranong. Tennant had been a convict assigned to Joshua John Moore at Canberry, a property in the present day inner north Canberra. Mount Tennent, behind Tharwa, is named after the bushranger (note the difference in spelling). [1]

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Charles Bean and his wife, Effie, in the grounds of Tuggeranong Station between 1919 and 1925.


The first authorised settler was James Murdoch. In 1824 he was offered a land grant on a small plain known by the natives as 'Togranong' meaning 'cold plains'. He took up the grant in 1827. Lanyon station was established in 1835 and originally owned by James Wright and John Lanyon. Wright bought the property from Lanyon, who had only remained in Australia for three years. Wright sold to the Cunningham family in 1848. In 1835 Colonel Thomas Hiah Macquoid, then Sheriff of the New South Wales Supreme Court bought Tuggeranong station then known as Waniassa property (sic). The rural depression of 1840 hit hard and Macquoid committed suicide in order to avoid bankruptcy. His son took over the estate and creditors allowed him to continue to operate it until it was sold by the Macquoid family in 1858 to the Cunningham family, owners of the neighbouring Lanyon property. [1] They renamed Waniassa to Tuggranong (sic). The whole area was part of the Tuggeranong parish in the late nineteenth century. Tuggranong homestead was rebuilt by the Cunningham family in 1908. In 1917 it was resumed by the Commonwealth Government for military purposes. The Cunningham family remained at Lanyon until 1926. Charles Bean, together with his staff, wrote the first two volumes of the twelve volume official history of Australia's involvement in World War I at the homestead from 1919 to 1925. Tuggeranong property was leased as a grazing property by the McCormack family from 1927 to 1976. [2]

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Aerial view of Lanyon station in 1950
In 1973, the third of the new towns planned for Canberra was inaugurated at Tuggeranong on 21 February. It was originally planned to house between 180 000 to 220 000 people. Planning for the new town had begun in 1969. The first families moved in to the suburb of Kambah in 1974.

The fifth Canberra fire station opened at Kambah in 1979 to service the new developing satellite city. [3]
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The view from Tuggeranong Hill, looking down into Tuggeranong Valley in 2002
Urban development is consolidated around the artificial Lake Tuggeranong which was constructed in 1987. The Tuggeranong Town Centre is to the west of the lake. It includes a major shopping mall, known as the Tuggeranong Hyperdome (referring to the architectural use of semi-opaque domes in the roof) or by the newer name Centro Tuggeranong. Centro Tuggeranong is managed and part owned by Centro Property Group and is surrounded by government offices and a light industrial area. On the edge of the business district, overlooking the lake is Lake Tuggeranong College, a school catering to years 11 and 12 (16 - 18 years old).

Places of interest

Places of interest in the district are:

Churches

Suburbs

Suburb Population
(in 2001)		 Median age
(in 2001)		 Mean
household size
(in 2001)		 Area
(km²)		 Density
(/km²)		 Date first
settled as
a suburb		 Gazetted as
a Division Name		 Median property
prices 2005_
Banks3,626_28 years2.8 persons2.241,619199212 March 1987$308,000_
Bonython3,481 _30 years2.9 persons2.901,200198917 October 1986$346,000_
Calwell6,039 _30 years3 persons3.871,56019865 August 1975$310,000_
Chisholm5,671 _29 years3.1 persons3.111,82319825 August 1975$305,000_
Conder - Lanyon Market Place4,358 _28 years3.2 persons4.51966199112 March 1987$300,000_
Fadden3,309 _35 years3.3 persons3.111,06419815 August 1975$480,000_
Gilmore2,972 _28 years3.3 persons2.101,41519855 August 1975$325,000_
Gordon7,455 _29 years3 persons4.471,667199012 March 1987$300,000_
Gowrie3,285 _31 years3.1 persons1.931,70219815 August 1975$352,000_
Greenway - Tuggeranong Town Centre968 _34 years2.2 persons5.35181198817 October 1986$408,000_
Hume~~8.80~22 March 1982$292,000_
Isabella Plains4,385 _29 years2.9 persons2.491,76119855 August 1975$295,000_
Kambah - Kambah Village Centre16,141 _33 years2.8 persons11.301,428197422 March 1973$310,000_
Macarthur1,589 _32 years3.3 persons1.271,251198322 March 1982$375,000_
Monash5,756 _32 years3 persons3.411,68819785 August 1975$332,000_
Oxley1,836 _31 years3 persons1.081,700198522 March 1982$366,000_
Richardson3,344 _29 years3 persons2.241,49319815 May 1975$278,000_
Theodore4,163 _28 years3.1 persons3.131,33019865 August 1975$303,000_
Wanniassa - Erindale Centre8,201 _33 years2.9 persons5.431,513197521 May 1974$330,000_

References

1. ^ Exploring the ACT and Southeast New South Wales, J. Kay McDonald, Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1985, p45 ISBN 0-86417-049-1

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Tharwa (postcode 2620) is a small village within the Australian Capital Territory, 35 kilometres south of Canberra, the capital city of Australia.

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Tuggeranong Homestead is located in the Australian Capital Territory in the area now covered by the suburb of Richardson.

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