They occupied small farms that varied in size, from a few acres to up to thirty-four acres. Toongabbie acquired its own railway station on the 26 April At first it was unmanned and was in the form of a small shed. The station was mainly for goods at this time and any passengers had to signal the trains driver if they wanted to board the train. The station acquired its first station master in , Miss Am Arnold. Education was compulsory for all children up to the age of fourteen from To this, a classroom was set up in the Primitive Methodist Church for twenty-seven children in May In there was a need for a school house to be built and this was opened in and used by forty children.
The school acquired its first brick building in The first post office in Toongabbie was opened in a private home, that of Henry Birk in August A second post office was opened in , and it was only in that the post office was officially named, Toongabbie Post Office.
At least thirty-nine soldiers embarked from the Toongabbie area and sadly some of them were killed in action. For a small community this loss was felt keenly. Most homes had a few fowls and many grew their own vegetables.. The name Old Toongabbie is given for the suburb that is alongside the creeks. And came into use to distinguish the older part of the suburb from the suburb that grew around the railway station. It includes the original farm and settlement. In , 14, people lived in Toongabbie.
The suburb has a young population with a median age of 35 years; and children aged 0 — 14 years made up Old Toongabbie has a much smaller population. In it was 3, Retrieved October 30, A number of clans or families known generally as the Darug gradually settled along the river. At the head of the river were the Burramattagal or Barramattagal of Parramatta, while to their west and north lived the Bidjigal, another Darug group: the Bidjigal were known in both the Castle Hill and Botany areas.
Pemulwuy, [media] the guerrilla leader who features in the early history of the district, was of this clan. Another known identity of the Bidjigal was Pemulwuy's son Tedbury.
They lived on a diversity of plant and animal life from the streams and the bushland. Fresh water streams yielded mullet, crayfish, shellfish and turtles. Male food-gathering activities ranged from trapping and hunting native animals to collecting bull ants and their eggs and larvae of the longicorn beetle the witchetty grub.
All were prized and sought in the never-ending daily quest for food. Animals such as lizards, snakes, birds, potoroos and wallabies were all hunted. Of these activities, possum hunting was probably the most fruitful, the method of capture being to smoke them out of their hollow tree haunts. Toongabbie Creek [media] was situated in an alluvial valley that ran eastwards from Prospect to the sea, dominated by stands of tall timber, together with gullies providing humid and fire-free conditions that developed closed canopies supporting patches of local rainforest or 'brush' in the rich soil.
Patches still remain along the creek between Oakes Road and Briens Road. The turpentine Syncarpia glomulifera and the coachwood or scented satinwood Ceropetalum apetulum were common, as were the lillypilly Acmena smithii and the water gum Tristaniopsis laurina.
Governor Arthur Phillip established the government farm at Rose Hill in November , to develop an agricultural community that would make the colony almost self-sufficient. The township at Rose Hill developed as an administrative and market centre, and settlement expanded around it. The river and creek lands to the west were fertile, only needing clearing.
Phillip decided to expand the settlement to the north-west along the river valley after the Second Fleet arrived in June The first expansion of the township of Rose Hill was a new 'public settlement' built about a mile and a half 2.
This site was initially referred to as 'the new grounds'. Collins first mentions it in August and mentioned that clearing would result in about 40 to 50 acres 16 to 20 hectares , allowing corn to be planted in season. The labour was directed by Thomas Daveney. The composition of occupied private dwellings in Old Toongabbie is as follows: Compared to the rest of Australia, Old Toongabbie has close to average migrant population, with around The top 5 countries of birth for migrants in the area are: United Kingdom 4.
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