Cobbadah - a brief history

COBBADAH - In January 1901 a petition seeking the establishment of a Provisional School at Cobbadah was forwarded to the Department of Public Instruction. In the petition it was revealed that Cobbadah was a surveyed township with a post office. Surveyor Thomas J. Oliver completed a preliminary survey for the town during April 1863. A surveyed block in the town for a school site was dedicated on 1st June 1865. A rough plan, which accompanied the petition showed that the Post Office was located alongside the ‘Cobbadah Hotel’, conducted by George Wilkinson, and the dedicated school was, situated further north on the Bingara Road.

The reserved portions set aside for the town and suburban lands appeared in the NSW Government Gazette, 24 November 1865. By 1909 parishioners of the Anglican Church prayed in the Church of the Annunciation The design of Cobbadah was modified and on 16 February 1910, the new plan was published in the NSW Government Gazette. The area excluded from the town site was made available for rural settlement. This area now forms part of portion 53. A further sale of allotments within sections 8, 9, 10, 11 and 19 took place on 28 September 1910.

At the time of writing her history, Betty Crowley reported that only five buildings stood within the original town- the church, Post Office, two farm houses and a deserted hut. Other features of the historical landscape included foundation blocks, a solitary chimney, several domes of old wells and a clump of fruit trees.

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