Tumblong, New South Wales

Tumblong is a village community in the central east part of the Riverina and situated about 18km south east from Mundarlo and 25 kilometres north west from Adelong. At the, Tumblong and the surrounding area had a population of 338.HistorySome claim Tumblong was first settled around 1830 by Robert Pitt Jenkins esq, a wealthy squatter, who built a 10-room home on 25000acre that he called Bangus Station. However, as he would gave only been 16 in 1830 that claim is doubtful. The earliest newspaper reference to his property calss it "Bramballa". Jenkins did, however, apparently move his family to this property Bramballa/Bangus in 1848 and was the magistrate in Gundagai until 1853 when he left the region for Eagle Vale near Campbelltown. Unable to sell the property and the 3000 head of sheep, he let out the residence and it became a public house called the Bangus Inn. In 1856 he managed to sell the Inn and an acre of land for £1000.With the 1856 sale of the Bangus Inn the new owner renamed it the Home Hotel before William Williams of Adelong purchased the property in the 1870s. He built a new hotel called the Coach and Horses in 1873, this lasted until it was replaced in 1905 with the Adelong Crossing Hotel, currently the Tumblong Tavern.In 1859, Robert Pitt Jenkins, now a member of the NSW Legislative Council, his wife and four sons were lost in the sinking of the Royal Charter off the English Coast. His daughter Alice Jenkins, at school in Paris at the time, inherited Bangus and it was sold off by her husband Hubert de Castella to finance his vineyard.The Adelong Crossing Place railway station opened in 1903 and the line was closed in 1984.The Adelong Crossing school opened in 1871 and was closed in 1990.