PHOTO: An early image of the intersection of Castlereagh and Aberford Streets. Source to be confirmed.
The tiny settlement of Coonamble was proclaimed a township in 1861 and was in the middle of a boom period when the first edition of the Coonamble Times was printed on 1 April 1885.
From a collection of small huts in the area between the Castlereagh River and the Magomodine Creek (known as the Coonamble Creek) near the present Warrena Creek bridge, businesses were still moving to higher ground after a series of floods in . . .
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