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Tuggerah

Tuggerah is situated on the western side of the most southern of the three lakes that form the Tuggerah Lakes. It is 2½ kms south of Wyong. The name Tuggerah is of Aboriginal origin and is thought to mean cold or bleak, and windy.

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Prior to 1900 settlement in the area was sparse, however with the building 
of the Sydney to Newcastle railway in the late 1880’s, numerous small farming lots were established in the area around Tuggerah where the main occupations involved dairying, cattle grazing and timber getting. A local fishing industry developed after a railway platform was built at Tuggerah (named Tuggerah Lakes station) in 1891. A school at Tuggerah was established in 1892.

PictureArial view of Westfield Tuggerah Shopping Centre 1995.
Tuggerah remained as a rural community with dairying, citrus growing and market gardening as the main form of land use. By the 1970’s, by which time the railway line had been electrified and road links to Sydney had been improved with the Sydney to Newcastle motorway, the Tuggerah area became home to commuters and gradually farming gave way to housing developments. By the end of the twentieth century Tuggerah was home to two major shopping complexes, numerous housing estates and small industrial estates. A once sleepy village had been swallowed up by progress.

Families with a long association with the Tuggerah area are Fowler, Smith, Goldie, Lees, Chaseling, Fishburn, Bailey, Mead, Bryant, Preston, Gilkison, Foott, Bakewell, Harris, Campbell, Sales, Mead, Trigg and Williams.


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  • Home
  • History
    • History of Wyong
    • Local Cemeteries
    • Wyong in 1919
    • Women of the District >
      • Women of Wyong
    • Wyong at War >
      • Soldiers of WWI
  • Other Localities
    • Budgewoi
    • Norah Head
    • The Entrance
    • Toukley
    • Tuggerah
    • Warnervale
    • Yarramalong
  • Families
    • Families A-E >
      • Alison Family
      • Atkins Family
      • Bailey Family
      • Baker Family
      • Bryant Family
      • Clouten Family
      • Denniss Family
    • Families F-J >
      • Forsythe Family
      • Gascoigne Family
      • Gavenlock Family
      • Hargraves Family
    • Families K-Z >
      • Piper Family
      • Robley Family
      • Rossetti Family
      • Spencer Family
      • Stinson Family
      • Swadling Family
      • Taylor Family
      • Warner Family
      • Woodbury Family
  • Resources
    • Publications
    • Recommended Reading
    • Research Names
    • Useful Links
  • Contact Us
  • Gallery