Junee

Junee (: 6000 inhabitants) is a city of the Riverina, an area of the south of the News-Wales-of-South in Australia

The city is located at 470 km of Sydney

The name of indigenous the east city of origin and means " speak moi".

The urban development started in the years 1860 to 1880, at the time of the gold rush. Then the arrival of the train and the existence of a line between Sydney and Melbourne passing by Junee allowed a new push of growth while making it possible to the farmers to export on one or the other city.

The area esr reconverted into products of quality: sheep, cereals with Barley, Oats, Triticale. It tried to be reconverted into the secondary economy with mechanics, the transformation of the meat, the Minoterie.

Reference

anglophone Wikipedia

External bonds

Junee Shire Council
Junee Licorice & Chocolate factory
Junee Roundhouse - Railway Museum
Junee Links Webpage

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