Ringarooma
Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Ringarooma is a small town in north-eastern Tasmania. It is located just east of the Ringarooma River and is about Template:Cvt south-west from Derby and Template:Cvt east-northeast from Launceston. The area around Ringarooma is known for dairy farming and timber harvesting. The locality is in the Dorset Council local government area, except for about 2.5% which is in the Break O'Day Council area.
History
The district was opened up to farming in the 1860s, and the town itself was founded in 1882 when a rural property was subdivided into lots by landowner Christopher Krushka. It was initially known as Krushka Town before being renamed Ringarooma in November 1888, taking on the name of a coastal town near Bridport, which was renamed Boobyalla.[2][3] Ringarooma is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning happy hunting ground.[4]
Ringarooma Post Office opened on 1 October 1874.[5]
Primarily a dairy town, in 2017 Ringarooma was named the "Legendairy Capital of Tasmania".[6]
Present day
Today, Ringarooma is a small town surrounded by dairy farming and timber harvesting country[4] near mountains such as Mount Victoria and Ben Lomond.
The Mount Victoria Forest Reserve that contains Ralphs Falls[7] and Cash Gorge/Falls[8] is about Template:Cvt to the SouthEast of Ringarooma, while the St Columba Falls is a further Template:Cvt away (Template:Cvt by road).[9][10]
Notable people
- Bartlett Adamson, journalist, poet, author and political activist was born here.[11]
- Alfred Gaby, recipient of the Victoria Cross was born at Springfield near here.[12]
- Alan Lindsay Wardlaw, pastoralist, soldier and parliamentarian, managed a farm nearby.
- Samuel Hawkes was the first Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Ringarooma.
References
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