Location 40km NW of Goulburn
Industries Gold then sheep, wheat, potatoes, cattle, often hay, apples, pears, cherries, meat processing
1860 Town gazetted
1864 Population 130
1865 School built and closed later the same year
1867 Post office built
1869 Snowstorm
1870 Bridge built
1870 Courthouse built
1870 Earth tremors
1871 Cemetery established
1874 School reopened
1875 Watch-house built
1879 Bridge destroyed and rebuilt
1880 Telegraph
1881 Additions to courthouse
1881 Population 241
1882 Additions to school
1888-90 New post office built
1889 Fire in town
1890 Whooping cough epidemic
1891 Population 925
1892 New courthouse built
1893 Flood
1896 Snowstorm
1896 Typhoid epidemic with one woman dying
1897 School demolished and replaced
1900 Snowstorm
1902 Fire in town
1902 Railway station opened
1906 Telephone in town
1906 Typhoid epidemic
1907 Hospital (footage) built
1907 Typhoid epidemic
1909 Telephone exchange established
1911 Population 1696
1913 Fire in town
1916 Fire in town
1918 Alterations to school
1920 Electricity in town
1920 Powerhouse built
1921 Snowstorm
1922-1929 Theodoros Tzortzopoulos (Theodore Georgopoulos) born 1891, Nikolaos Tzortzopoulos and Stamatiki Krithari, established the Niagara Cafe
1923 Grigorios Maselos (Gregory Masselos, born 1902 to Stavros Masaelos and Stamatiki Petrohilou, lived in Crookwell for 11 months
About 1925 Ioannis Modeas (John Modeas), born 1901 to Stefanos Modeas and Kiriakoula Trifilis, lived in Crookwell for a year
About 1926-1930 Theodoros Venardos (Theodore Constantine Venardos), born 1895 to Konstatninos Venardos and Maria Megalokonomos, lived in Crookwell
About 1930-1949 Georgios Protopsaltis, born 1909 to Ioannis Protopsaltis and Maria Prinea, lived in Crookwell until his death there on 7 September 1949
1933 Measles outbreak
1933 Population 1908
1934 Bridge demolished
1934 New wing added to hospital
1934 Whooping cough epidemic
1935 New bridge built
1935 Nikolakis Zantiotis (Nicholas Emanuel Zantiotis or Zaunders), born 1884 to Manolis Zantiotis (Gerandi) and Erini Kapsani, were living in Crookwell
1938 Fire in town
1938 Alterations to post office
1938 New school building
1938 Water supply to town
1939 Fire station built
1943 Additions to hospital
1948 Nicholas Samios (son of Efstratios Samios and Erini Protopsalti) arrived in Crookwell where he stayed for 40 years. He was joined by his wife Stavroula in 1959 where they raised their family. They owned and ran the Niagara cafe from 1949 until 1978.
1951 Hailstorm
1952 Bushfire
1952 Gastroenteritis outbreak
1954 Earth tremors
1954 Population 2112
1956 Additions to hospital
1960 Additions to school
1960 Sewerage works
1 March 1965 Theodoros Venardos (1895) died
1966 Automatic telephone exchange
1966 Population 2267
1968 Additions to school
1968 High school built (or possibly 1966)
1971 Additions to school
1974 Additions to high school
1975 Bushfire
1976 New fire station built
1976 Population 2147
1979 Additions to high school
1985 Railway station closed
1986 Population 1966
2001 Population 1926
2004 Clock tower built
2011 Population 2016
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Historical Guide to New South Wales by Philip Simpson
National Archives of Australia naturalisation papers
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