Marulan

Coordinates: 34°43′S 150°00′E / 34.717°S 150.000°E / -34.717; 150.000
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Marulan
Federal division(s)
Hume
Localities around Marulan:
Carrick Brayton Paddys River
Carrick Marulan Tallong
Boxers Creek
Bungonia
 Tolwong

Marulan is a small town east of the Great Dividing Range and is located in the

Main Southern railway line
. Marulan was previously known as Mooroowoolen.

At the 2016 census, Marulan had a population of 1,178 people.[1]

History

In the early years of European settlement of Sydney, exploration southwest of Sydney was slow. In 1818, Hamilton Hume and James Meehan reached "the Goulburn plains" for the first time. Governor Lachlan Macquarie ordered the construction of the Great South Road (the basis of the northern end of the Hume Highway) in 1819 from Picton to the Goulburn Plains.

The southern part of Macquarie's road ran from

Argyle County,[note 1] along with Goulburn.[2]
In the early 19th century Bungonia was expected to become a major centre, but it subsequently proved unsuitable for intensive agriculture.

When

Main Southern railway
reached Marulan in 1868, the town migrated 3 km north to the railway station. Nevertheless, the old cemetery remains at the Bungonia Road intersection. A quarry is being developed near the intersection, so an interchange has been built there.

In 1958, the first truck inspection station in New South Wales was opened on the outskirts of Marulan on the Hume Highway.[3] In 1986, the town was bypassed when a dual carriageway section of the Hume Highway opened.

Marulan Meridian Arch

Marulan Meridian Arch (2002) beside the Hume Highway.

Located in Meridian Park on George St, the Marulan Meridian Arch[4] is a sculpture that forms an arch with a metal sphere on an axis mounted at the top of arch. It is the very centre of the time zone UTC+10:00 and, as such, the sun rises here at approximately 6:00am, then sets at exactly 6:00pm, every equinox.

It commemorates the Centenary of Federation and that Marulan is the only town on the 150th meridian east.

Heritage listings

Marulan has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

Notes

  1. ^ Counties never became serious units of government in New South Wales, but they are still referred to in land titles.

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marulan, New South Wales.
  1. ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Marulan (State Suburbs)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 10 July 2016. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-86910-164-1
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  3. ^ First Truck Check Station in Operation Truck & Bus Transportation February 1959 page 61
  4. ^ "Marulan Meridian Arch". Monument australia. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  5. Department of Planning & Environment. H00127. Retrieved 18 May 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence
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  6. Department of Planning & Environment. H01827. Retrieved 18 May 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence
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  7. Department of Planning & Environment. H01188. Retrieved 18 May 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence
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