TARCUTTA
Tarcutta is one of the last towns to
be by-passed by the Hume Freeway. Not too much longer and this bane of
a town to the motorist will be consigned to history. Why; ridiculously
slow speed limits have determined Tarcutta has been a revenue centre
for NSW. Almost all drivers dread the 3km stretch through this town.
Soon no more. Hooray for that. Tarcutta is the second last town when
traveling south towards Albury.
The
Tarcutta area was first visited by the European explorers Hume and
Hovell as they passed through on their way from Sydney to Port Phillip
in the Colony of Victoria. On 7 January 1825, near the present site of
Tarcutta, they met a group of Wiradjuri Aborigines.
Tarcutta has also been nominated as
that town in Australia that has a memorial dedicated to truck drivers
who have died on the road. This memorial is quite nicely done, and is
worth taking the soon to be open exit to have a look.  
It
serves a local farming community relying for its prosperity mainly on
sheep and cattle, and the interstate truckies who use the town as a
change-over point in the trade between the state capital cities of
Sydney and Melbourne.
The
Anglican Church, up on the hill with difficult access is over 100
years old.
The
Catholic Church is located near the RSL Club. 
The
Tarcutta War Memorial is represented by the Memorial Hall. 
The
Tarcutta Hotel is on the southern approaches. Nice pub this.
Until
the Truckie Memorial there was no reason to visit, but the Memorial
has changed that.
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