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Place

Tingha

Date Published

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:  天架
:  Village
:  Northern Tablelands (NSW)
:  Mining (tin),  Temples / Joss House

The discovery of tin at Tingha created a boom in productivity and a population which peaked in the late nineteenth century and which declined as the tin was mined out. Chinese miners and subsequent Chinese famlies payed a dominant role in its history.


Tin at Tingha: the history of Tingha, the greatest tin producing area of New South Wales, and the story of its people by Helen Brown. Armidale [N.S.W.] : H. Brown, 1982.