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词条 Denison Town, New South Wales
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{{Infobox Australian place
| type = town
| name = Denison Town
| state = nsw
| image =
| caption =
| coordinates = {{coord|32|01|59|S|149|29|38|E|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_label_position = bottom
| est = 1850s
| elevation = 400
| elevation_footnotes = [1]
| dist1 = 11.1
| dir1 = E
| location1 = Dunedoo
| dist2 = 374
| dir2 = NW
| location2 = Sydney
| lga = Warrumbungle Shire[2]
| region = Orana
}}Denison Town is a ghost town in New South Wales, Australia. It was established in the 1850s and is thought to have been named after the Governor of New South Wales, Sir William Thomas Denison.[2] It was located about {{Convert|11|km|mi|0}} from the present town of Dunedoo. In its heyday, Denison Town consisted of an inn,[3] post office,[4] church and cemetery,[5] and was the occasional venue for sittings of the Local Court.[6] Local industries included the farming of wheat, sheep and cattle,[7] alongside sporadic prospecting for silver ore.[8]

In 1861 the inn, named the Denison Hotel, was the scene of an attempted robbery by bushrangers who had carried out previous attacks around Mudgee. The innkeeper and patrons fought off the robbers, but the incident led to calls for a permanent police presence in the town.[3]

Denison Town Post Office opened on 1 January 1860 and closed in 1893.[4] A request for a local school was rejected in 1906.[9] Eventually the opening of lead mines at nearby Leadville, as well as being bypassed by the main local railway, resulted in Denison Town becoming a ghost town.{{citation needed|date=August 2010}} One building and the pioneer cemetery remained. Newspaper reports from the 1930s indicated that the cemetery, which contained around 50 graves, was neglected and used for grazing by local livestock.[5]

References

1. ^Topographic map 8733 COBBORA
2. ^{{NSW GNR|id=KWwGFxWAIt|title=Dension Town|accessdate=22 August 2010}}
3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13061490 |title=Talbragar-Denison Town |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |volume=XLIV, |issue=7346 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=23 December 1861 |accessdate=24 December 2017 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}
4. ^{{cite web | last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | publisher = Premier Postal Auctions | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=NSW&country= | accessdate = 2011-05-26}}
5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158561742 |title=NEGLECTED DEAD |newspaper=Mudgee Guardian And North-western Representative |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=12 February 1931 |accessdate=24 December 2017 |page=22 |via=National Library of Australia}}
6. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70592616 |title=Talbragar River |newspaper=Australian Town And Country Journal |volume=XIII, |issue=403 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 January 1876 |accessdate=24 December 2017 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}
7. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70604853 |title=Talbragar River |newspaper=Australian Town And Country Journal |volume=XIV, |issue=353 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=7 October 1876 |accessdate=24 December 2017 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}
8. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128771532 |title=Revival in Mining. |newspaper=Evening News |issue=7198 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=19 June 1890 |accessdate=24 December 2017 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}
9. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article157620724 |title=OLD DENISON TOWN. |newspaper=Mudgee Guardian And North-western Representative |volume=XIV, |issue=1425 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=29 November 1906 |accessdate=24 December 2017 |page=20 |via=National Library of Australia}}
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