Taroom
Epitomising a quaint country town Taroom is located on the banks of the stunning Dawson River. Image contributed.
TAROOM is a rural town on the Dawson River and is located 130km north of Miles. Ludwig Leichhardt travelled through the Taroom district in 1844, leaving a carved message on a Coolibah tree still standing in the main street. His favourable report drew William Turner who was licensed in 1845 to hold the Taroom pastoral run. The name was derived from an Aboriginal word describing the native lime, Eremocitrus glauca, a thorny tree with orange blossom odour and small fruits that can be used for jam or drinks. Originally the settlement that grew up along the Dawson River was known as Bonners Knob but in 1856, when a post office was built, the official name became Taroom.
The tell-tale sign that you’ve arrived in Taroom is the Steel Wings windmill at the northern entry to town. Manufactured around the turn of the 20th Century, the windmill is a rare commodity, being only one of two known windmills of its type still in working order. The landmark says a lot about the town. Taroom is steeped in early European history and built on primary industries – first sheep, now cattle and grain. LUDWIG LEICHHARDT MEMORIAL THE memorial is a large sandstone slab with three bronze plaques - one of which provides a succinct account of Leichhardt’s life and his disappearance in 1848. It is located in the Ludwig Leichhardt Park in Yaldwyn Street east of the Leichhardt tree and down the hill from the Visitor Information Centre.
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THE LEICHHARDT TREE THE Leichhardt tree is very clearly marked in the main street. It is no longer possible to see the distinctive LL 44 which Leichhardt carved on the tree in 1844. CHAIN LAGOONS North of Taroom the Leichhardt Highway crosses Palm Tree Creek. This was once the site of a Native Police barracks. Consequently it is sometimes known as Police Lagoons. The lagoons are worth visiting as they have stands of the rare Livistona cycad palms. ISLA GORGE NATIONAL PARK LOCATED 55km north of Taroom on the Leichhardt Highway, the Isla Gorge National Park is a spectacular landscape of sandstone cliffs and gorges.
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