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Bowraville is a small town in the Mid North Coast hinterland of New South Wales, Australia in Nambucca Shire. The town invites some tourists with such things as a folk museum, a war museum, a historic theatre, and other historic features. It also invites new residents with its scenic beauty and idyllic lifestyle. The Bowraville Jockey Club holds regular race meetings, and this also invites visitors from neighbouring towns and afar. On 5 November 2011 Bowraville was honoured as the Winner of the Cultural Heritage Award and came third overall in the Tidy Towns Awards by Keep Australia Beautiful - Tidy Towns. Website: http://www.kabnsw.org.au/programs/TidyTowns.aspx ==History== The Indigenous Gumbaynggirr and Ngaku〔http://www.dnaag.com.au/〕 people have inhabited the area for thousands of years, and today almost 34% of the population are still of Aboriginal origin. The Gumbaynggirr lands cover an area of the Mid North Coast from the Nambucca River to as far north as the Clarence River (Grafton), west to Armidale and eastward to the Pacific coast.〔http://www.bowraville.org.au/gumbaynggirr.htm〕 The area was mostly subtropical rainforest until the arrival of Europeans. The word Bowra comes from the Gumbaynggirr place name, ''Bawrrung'', which possibly means cabbage tree palm.〔http://www.nnsw.com.au/bowraville/tourism.html〕 Other definitions given have been 'bullrout fish', 'scrub turkey' or 'bald head'. Originally named Bowra, the ''ville'' was added to the name in the 1870s to avoid confusion with the Southern Highlands town of Bowral. In March 1841 Clement Hodgkinson explored the upper reaches of the Nambucca and Bellinger Rivers. He was the first European to make contact with the local Aboriginal communities. The township grew up in the 1850s and 1860s. The town was gazetted in 1870 and Bowraville Post Office opened on 1 August 1870., and became the main centre of the Nambucca Valley. Its early industries were mainly timber and dairy, and the town eventually came to inherit the Nambucca Shire Council chambers. From about the 1960s, however, Bowraville began to decline in popularity and wealth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bowraville, New South Wales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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