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Murwillumbah Historic Museum |
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Wednesday 19th to Friday 21st - at the Queensland Road Murwillumbah |
The Museum, run by the Murwillumbah Historical Society, occupies the original Tweed Shire Hall, built in 1915.
It is open from 10am to 4pm, Wednesdays & Fridays and every 4th Sunday (excluding public holidays) .
Entry fee is an amazing $2 for adults and just $1 for children!
Radio Room
Featuring dozens of pre-WWII domestic and military radios and gear, plus the only Museum-operated Amateur ("Ham") radio left in the country!
Robey Steam Engine
Learn about the massive adventure undertaken in restoring this incredible piece of machinery.
Ladies Display Room
Go back in time to the pioneering days amongst many special historical items donated to the museum by local families.
Kitchen Display Room
A fascinating look at how they did it in the 'old days', without the help of so many of the 'mod-cons' we take for granted.
Banana Display
Discover fascinating secrets about the humble fruit that helped to make Murwillumbah great!
Local History Books For Sale
The Museum offers several excellent books on local history at reasonable prices.
Learn more about where you live!!!
Murwillumbah'
The name Murwillumbah is of Aboriginal origin.
Joshua Bray (one of the Tweed's early settlers) laid claim to the naming of the place in a paper he wrote in 1902.
It is also said that the NSW Government had asked a Jonathan Harris to suggest a name for the town back in 1873 and is reportedly in family records that Jonathan had named the town.
There are several translations for Murwillumbah, the most common one being 'Home of many possums'.
Stand in the Tweed Valley somewhere around Murwillumbah and you will find yourself in a great amphitheatre roughly 32km across and walled by high ranges on all sides except to the east where they slope down to the sea.
You are really standing in a great circular excavation of the inner parts of a dome, an area from which all the rock mass has been eroded away leaving the encircling ranges to present their stiff-like walls towards the centre and Mount Warning.
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Mt Warning, towering skywards some 1157 meters one is fully aware of its value from the scenic viewpoint, standing as it does like a sentinel higher than and overlooking its encircling ranges, features which serve only to emphasise it as the centre of activity.
It is reported that Mt Warning is the first place in Australia the sun hits.
Murwillumbah, approx.
30km south of the Queensland and New South Wales Border, lies within the warmer northern part of the South Temperate Zone.
It is the administration headquarters of the Tweed Shire and commercial centre serving the mid and upper Tweed Valley.
By 1875 the growing and refining of sugar had begun in this area.
Shortly after this the development of refrigerated transport led to a rapid expansion of the dairy industry, with the building of Norco's Cheese and Butter Factory in 1911.
An important day in the history of the Tweed Valley and Murwillumbah was Christmas Eve 1894, 11.25 am.
when the first train to bring passengers into town steamed into the Murwillumbah Station.
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