Tenterfield, New South Wales

Tenterfield is located at the northern end of the New England region, at the intersection of the New England and Bruxner Highways. The town is the seat of the Tenterfield Shire.{{Cite web |url=https://www.tenterfield.nsw.gov.au/ |title=Tenterfield Shire Council | |access-date=2019-04-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324033152/https://www.tenterfield.nsw.gov.au/ |archive-date=2019-03-24 |url-status=live }} The closest nearby large town is Stanthorpe, Queensland, being 56 km north via the New England Highway. Tenterfield is three hours from Brisbane, Queensland (276 km), three hours from Byron Bay, New South Wales (205 km), two hours from Armidale, New South Wales (188 km) and eight hours from Sydney (663 km). The town is on the north-western stretch of the Northern Tablelands plateau, a spur of the Great Dividing Range, and is nestled in a valley beneath Mount Mackenzie (1,287m elevation), one of the highest points along the Northern Tablelands.

Tenterfield's first inhabitants were the Jukembal people who travelled the area from near Glen Innes to Stanthorpe, Queensland.

File:View of Tenterfield Joseph Backler p2 00036h.jpg

In 1841, Sir Stuart Donaldson was running 18,000 sheep on a property that he named Tenterfield Station, after a family home, Tenterfield House, in Haddington, Scotland.{{cite web |title=Town blaze makes news Down Under |url=https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/13556053.town-blaze-makes-news-down-under/ |website=East Lothian Courier |date=21 July 2011 |access-date=4 March 2019 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043814/https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/13556053.town-blaze-makes-news-down-under/ |archive-date=6 March 2019 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}{{cite web |title=History |url=https://www.tenterfieldstationhomesteadaus.com/history |website=Tenterfield Station Homestead |access-date=4 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043006/https://www.tenterfieldstationhomesteadaus.com/history |archive-date=6 March 2019 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }} Donaldson was the first premier of NSW and made biannual trips to Tenterfield to inspect his holdings there, which covered {{convert|100000|acre|km2}} of unfenced land.

Tenterfield Post Office opened on 1 January 1849{{Cite web | last = Phoenix Auctions History | title = Post Office List | publisher = Phoenix Auctions | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=NSW&filter=*Tenterfield* | access-date = 21 January 2021 | archive-date = 17 April 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240417084230/https://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=NSW&filter=%2ATenterfield%2A | url-status = live }} and the township was gazetted in 1851 with allotments being sold in 1854.

In 1858 gold was discovered at Drake (Fairfield) and shortly afterwards at Timbarra and Boonoo Boonoo.Halliday, Ken, Call of the Highlands, Southern Cross Printery, Toowoomba, 1988. During 1859 an AJS Bank opened and an Anglican church was built the following year. In the 1860s the Tenterfield Chronicle was published, the district court was established; the building of a hospital commenced and a public school was opened. In 1870 the population was less than 900, but the town had five hotels, a school of arts and three churches. The existing Tenterfield Post Office was constructed in 1881.

On 1 February 1919, the presence of cases of Spanish flu in New South Wales resulted in Queensland closing its borders. Travellers bound for Queensland on the Main North railway line were forced to disembark at Tenterfield railway station, the last stop before the train would close the border. The Tenterfield showgrounds were turned in a temporary quarantine camp occupied by up to 700 people. Some people chose to return to Sydney while other spent a week in the camp after which they could enter Queensland.{{Cite web |last=Downes |first=Cara |last2=Mitchell |first2=Simon |date=30 March 2021 |title=Closed borders and broken agreements: Spanish Flu in Australia |url=https://www.naa.gov.au/blog/closed-borders-and-broken-agreements-spanish-flu-australia |access-date=17 April 2024 |website=National Archives of Australia |archive-date=23 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323045927/https://www.naa.gov.au/blog/closed-borders-and-broken-agreements-spanish-flu-australia |url-status=live }}

During World War II, Tenterfield was earmarked as a key battleground if the Japanese should invade Australia. During 1942 thousands of soldiers were set up in emergency camps, unbeknown to the locals, to cope with such an event. Overgrown tank traps and gun emplacements can still be seen on the Travelling Stock Route near the New England Highway.Reader's Digest Guide to Australian Places, Reader's Digest, Sydney. The highway was until the early 1950s the only all-weather road from Sydney to Brisbane.

Tenterfield has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

• Railway Avenue: Tenterfield railway station{{cite NSW SHR|5045121|Tenterfield Railway Station group|hr=01267|fn=12/14516|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• Manners Street: Tenterfield School of Arts{{cite NSW SHR|5051266|Tenterfield School of Arts|hr=01506|fn=H02/00261/1|access-date=18 May 2018}}
• 225 Rouse Street: Tenterfield Post Office{{cite NSW SHR|5045102|Tenterfield Post Office & Quarters|hr=01315|access-date=18 May 2018}}

The following buildings and sites are listed on the now defunct Register of the National Estate:.The Heritage of Australia, Macmillan Company, 1981, pp.2, 246-247. Also includes other buildings and sites as part of Tenterfield's history

• Stannum House, 114 Rouse Street, built c. 1888 by John Holmes Reid – exhibits ex-Buckingham Palace carpets and antique furniture
• Ayrdrie, Casino Road, country house built {{circa|1860}}{{cite web|title=Ayrdrie House|url=http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=2490054|website=NSW Govt Env & Heritage|access-date=4 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715033559/http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=2490054|archive-date=15 July 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}
• Tenterfield Post Office, built 1881{{cite web|title=Tenterfield Post Office & Quarters|url=http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5045102|access-date=4 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714190635/http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5045102|archive-date=14 July 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}
• Court House, Gaol and Police Buildings, Molesworth Street, 1874–1882{{cite web|title=Court House|url=http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=2490023|access-date=2014-07-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924044240/http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=2490023|archive-date=2015-09-24|url-status=live}}
• Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour (Tenterfield Catholic Church), 73 Miles Street, oldest building in use in the Catholic Diocese of Armidale
• Tenterfield Saddlery, {{circa|1870}}, used as a private residence, bank and saddlery
• Tenterfield School of Arts, 203 Rouse Street, {{circa|1876}}
• Bald Rock National Park, {{convert|25|km}} north of Tenterfield
• Boonoo Boonoo National Park, {{convert|23|km}} north-east of Tenterfield
• Tooloom Falls Area, south-west of Urbenville
• Basket Swamp National Park, {{convert|19|km}} north-east of Tenterfield
• Woolool Wooloolni/Wellington Rock Aboriginal Site, Basket Swamp National Park
• Aldershot Cottage, built {{circa|1860s}}
• Deloraine Cottage, built {{circa|1860s}}
• 124 High Street, built {{circa|1860s}}
• Flanagan's Men's Shop, oldest men's wear shop in Australia{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}

The railway opened to Tenterfield on 28 October 1884New England Regional Tourist Zone Association, New England Holiday, Express Print Armidale. and in 1886 to nearby Wallangarra/Jennings on the Queensland border, connecting Sydney and Brisbane, with a break-of-gauge at Wallangarra. When the rail link to the Queensland border was completed, Sydney and Brisbane were linked by rail for the first time. The railway was subsequently bypassed by the fully standard gauge North Coast line between Sydney and Brisbane, which was completed in 1932. The Main North line is now closed north of Armidale through to Wallangarra/Jennings, and the Tenterfield railway station is now a museum.

There was considerable debate about whether the break of gauge should take place at the existing town of Tenterfield, or at a whole new town at the border, which respectively became Wallangarra (Queensland side) and Jennings (New South Wales side).{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54889429 |title=Untitled |newspaper=The Morning Bulletin |location=Rockhampton, Qld. |date=17 March 1886 |access-date=15 November 2011 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=17 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417084232/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/54889429 |url-status=live }}

Sir Henry Parkes delivered his Federation Speech, commonly referred to as the "Tenterfield Oration", in the Tenterfield School of Arts on 24 October 1889. He was travelling from Brisbane to Sydney, via the new Main North railway. The speech is credited with re-igniting the debate that ultimately led to Federation on 1 January 1901. Parkes never got to see his oration come to fruition, dying 5 years prior to the Federation of Australia.

{{Historical populations

|type= Australia

|1921|2493

|1933|2622

|1947|3046

|1954|3268

|1961|3105

|1966|3270

|1971|3239

|1976|3563

|1981|3402

|1986|3370

|1991|3310

|1996|3205

|2001|3172

|2006|3130

|2011|2997

|2016|2914

|2021|2826

|source=Australian Bureau of Statistics data.{{cite web |title=Statistics by Catalogue Number |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/ViewContent?readform&view=ProductsbyCatalogue&Action=Expand&Num=2.2 |access-date=18 January 2024 |archive-date=29 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129050600/https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/ViewContent?readform&view=ProductsbyCatalogue&Action=Expand&Num=2.2 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Search Census data |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/search-by-area |access-date=18 January 2024 |archive-date=15 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415072033/https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/search-by-area |url-status=live }}

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According to the 2016 census of Population, there were 4,066 people in Tenterfield.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 5.0% of the population.
• 80.6% of people were born in Australia and 86.7% of people spoke only English at home.
• The most common responses for religion were Anglican 24.7%, Catholic 24.3% and No Religion 19.1%.

The main industries in the Tenterfield district are beef cattle breeding and superfine wool production through the breeding of Merino sheep. There are ten state forests in the Tenterfield district covering {{convert|7540|ha}}.

The only commercial radio stations serving Tenterfield are Rebel Media stations, Rebel FM 93.7 and The Breeze 102.5.

The Tenterfield-based community radio station is Ten FM. The station also broadcasts to Stanthorpe north of the border, on a separate frequency.

ABC New England North West and ABC Radio National broadcast to Tenterfield on local FM repeaters.

Tenterfield's local newspaper is The Tenterfield Star, which is a weekly newspaper issued each Wednesday. The newspaper has been published for more than 170 years and was once owned by J. F. Thomas, the solicitor who defended Breaker Morant.

Tenterfield is incorporated into the Lismore television licence area and as such receives regional news bulletins on Seven and Nine along with brief local news updates on WIN Television's 10 Northern NSW (formerly Southern Cross 10).

The local geography is dominated by prominent granite inselbergs and mountains, the most famous being that of Bald Rock, which sits within the Bald Rock National Park, and Bluff Rock which is located 12 minutes drive south of Tenterfield on the New England Highway. Prominent natural landmarks close to Tenterfield are:

• Mount Mackenzie – 1,258m elevation, south-west of CBD, and the highest point in the Tenterfield Shire. Used for television towers and Telstra towers. Features a 141-hectare nature reserve.
• Doctor's Nose – 1,165m elevation - features a 66-hectare nature reserve. Named for resembling the shape of the nose of a local doctor.

Tenterfield has an oceanic climate (Cfb), with cool winters, warm wet summers and a high diurnal range due to its valley location. It sits at an altitude of {{convert|850 |metres }} above sea level, and temperatures below freezing are common in the winter months. Tenterfield averages 47 days where the minimum temperature drops below {{convert|0|°C|disp=or}} each year.

The town receives light to moderate snowfalls during severe winters. This only occurs once every 20–30 years, although the town experiences occasional sleet. The nearby Mount Mackenzie ({{convert|1,287|m|feet|disp=or}} elevation) generally receives light, sometimes moderate, snowfall annually. The town's last snowfall occurred during the winter of 2015, although, the most recent snowfall close to Tenterfield was on 4 June 2019, when a low pressure system swept north through NSW. This caused it to snow on Mount Mackenzie and other points above {{convert|1,000|m|feet|-1|disp=or}} throughout the New England region.{{cite web | url-access=limited |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/1575852182736956/2325877554401078 |archive-date = 2022-04-30| url = https://www.facebook.com/visittenterfield/photos/a.1651967575125416/2325877554401078/?type=3&theater |title = Visit Tenterfield on Facebook |website=Facebook}}{{cbignore}}{{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}

Summers are moderately warm and stable, with most days during the summer months reaching {{convert|23|°C|1}} or above, and generally not dropping below {{convert|9|°C}} overnight. The majority of precipitation occurs as thunderstorms, which can be severe. Tenterfield's highest recorded temperature was {{convert|39.9|°C|1}}, which was recorded on 12 February 2017. Its coldest recorded temperature was {{convert|−10.6|°C}}, which was recorded on 10 July 2006.

{{Weather box

|location = Tenterfield (Federation Park, 1907–2024, rainfall to 1870); 838 m AMSL; 29.05° S, 152.02° E

|metric first = Yes

|single line = Yes

|Jan record high C = 38.3

|Feb record high C = 39.9

|Mar record high C = 35.6

|Apr record high C = 32.9

|May record high C = 27.1

|Jun record high C = 24.6

|Jul record high C = 23.3

|Aug record high C = 30.0

|Sep record high C = 31.2

|Oct record high C = 33.9

|Nov record high C = 36.2

|Dec record high C = 36.8

|year record high C = 39.9

|Jan high C = 27.1

|Feb high C = 26.1

|Mar high C = 24.6

|Apr high C = 21.7

|May high C = 18.0

|Jun high C = 15.0

|Jul high C = 14.5

|Aug high C = 16.1

|Sep high C = 19.5

|Oct high C = 22.4

|Nov high C = 24.8

|Dec high C = 26.6

|year high C =

|Jan low C = 14.4

|Feb low C = 14.3

|Mar low C = 12.4

|Apr low C = 8.5

|May low C = 4.9

|Jun low C = 2.4

|Jul low C = 1.0

|Aug low C = 1.8

|Sep low C = 4.7

|Oct low C = 8.0

|Nov low C = 10.8

|Dec low C = 13.0

|year low C =

|Jan record low C = 4.5

|Feb record low C = 4.0

|Mar record low C = -3.0

|Apr record low C = -5.0

|May record low C = -8.8

|Jun record low C = -9.3

|Jul record low C = -10.6

|Aug record low C = -9.5

|Sep record low C = -7.2

|Oct record low C = -3.4

|Nov record low C = -2.0

|Dec record low C = 1.2

|year record low C = -10.6

|rain colour = green

|Jan rain mm = 113.7

|Feb rain mm = 93.1

|Mar rain mm = 82.6

|Apr rain mm = 47.5

|May rain mm = 48.3

|Jun rain mm = 49.5

|Jul rain mm = 52.6

|Aug rain mm = 43.3

|Sep rain mm = 49.8

|Oct rain mm = 75.8

|Nov rain mm = 84.5

|Dec rain mm = 105.3

|year rain mm= 845.1

|Jan rain days = 8.8

|Feb rain days = 8.1

|Mar rain days = 7.9

|Apr rain days = 5.6

|May rain days = 5.7

|Jun rain days = 5.9

|Jul rain days = 5.7

|Aug rain days = 5.2

|Sep rain days = 5.3

|Oct rain days = 7.0

|Nov rain days = 7.5

|Dec rain days = 8.7

|unit rain days = 1.0 mm

|humidity colour = green

|Jan afthumidity = 56

|Feb afthumidity = 58

|Mar afthumidity = 58

|Apr afthumidity = 58

|May afthumidity = 61

|Jun afthumidity = 60

|Jul afthumidity = 56

|Aug afthumidity = 50

|Sep afthumidity = 46

|Oct afthumidity = 47

|Nov afthumidity = 53

|Dec afthumidity = 53

|year afthumidity = 55

|source 1 = Bureau of Meteorology,{{BoM Aust stats|site_ref=cw_056032_All|site_name=TENTERFIELD (FEDERATION PARK)|access-date=7 March 2017|date=March 2017}}

|date=March 2017}}

On 6 September 2019, a grass fire started near Mount Mackenzie Road, opposite the Tenterfield Cemetery, to the south west of Tenterfield. The fire was exacerbated by dry winds and unseasonable heat due to a weather front that was sweeping across New South Wales. Within an hour, the fire was upgraded to an emergency level threat and swept across the southern edge of the town, jumping across the New England Highway. All schools in Tenterfield were evacuated{{Citation|title=Schools evacuated as bushfires approach homes in Tenterfield|date=2019-09-06|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-06/schools-evacuated-as-bushfires-approach-homes-in-tenterfield/11487292|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-09-07|archive-date=6 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906111604/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-06/schools-evacuated-as-bushfires-approach-homes-in-tenterfield/11487292|url-status=live}} and power was cut to the town. The fire burned eastwards, within the vicinity of Billirimba road and Scrub road. 65 homes in the immediate area of the fire were saved.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/news-and-media/media-releases/initial-assessment-of-fire-affected-areas2|title=Initial assessment of fire affected areas|website=www.rfs.nsw.gov.au|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-07|archive-date=9 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109040739/http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/news-and-media/media-releases/initial-assessment-of-fire-affected-areas2|url-status=live}} one home was destroyed and 4 other homes damaged severely. 2 car yards, a pistol club and 12 outbuildings were destroyed and another 8 outbuildings damaged A 66 year old Tenterfield local, Neville Smith, a volunteer NSW firefighter, was severely injured when the fire truck he was in was engulfed by flames while defending a property,{{Cite web|url=https://www.themercury.com.au/news/breaking-news/nsw-volunteer-firefighter-critically-ill/news-story/f9d80711aee38b271aa47b56d63dcbdf|title='Stoic' NSW firefighter engulfed in flames|date=2019-09-07|website=www.themercury.com.au|language=en|access-date=2019-09-07}} He was stabilised at Tenterfield Hospital then airlifted to Brisbane in a stable but critical condition.

The fire continued to burn with an emergency warning throughout the night and was later downgraded by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service to a 'watch and act' level on 7 September as conditions on the fire grounds were easing due to cooler weather and large teams of firefighters with multiple aircraft assisting them with the fire.

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• Peter Allen, an entertainer who was born in and spent much of his childhood in Tenterfield, where he lived with his grandfather George Woolnough
• Bronwyn Bancroft, an indigenous Australian artist{{cite web|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0981b.htm|title=Bancroft, Bronwyn (1958 – )|last=Kovacic|first=Leonarda|year=2004|work=The Australian Women's Register|publisher=National Foundation for Australian Women and University of Melbourne|access-date=8 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608020653/http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0981b.htm|archive-date=8 June 2011|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}
• William Blakely, born in Tenterfield in 1875, a botanist and plant collector
• Sir Harry Chauvel, born at nearby Tabulam, the first Australian to command a military Corps
• William Folster, politician
• Robert Guy Howarth, born in Tenterfield in 1906, scholar, literary critic and poet
• Katherine Knight (born 1955), murderer who skinned her partner and cooked his body parts{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WFNaD9ArVqwC&pg=PT129|title=Extreme Evil: Taking Crime to the Next Level|first1=Phil|last1=Clarke|first2=Tom|last2=Briggs|first3=Kate|last3=Briggs|date=1 August 2011|publisher=Canary Press eBooks|isbn=9781907795916|via=Google Books|access-date=10 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111044000/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WFNaD9ArVqwC&pg=PT129|archive-date=11 November 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}
• Sir Clarence McKerihan, banker and president of the Rural Bank of New South Wales.
• Billy Moore, NRL footballer
• A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
• Jenny Saville, professional golfer
• Gary Shearston (1939–2013), singer and songwriter.
• Dr. Leonard Smith, Aboriginal Artist, Writer, Professional Rugby League Player, Australian Army Veteran and Philanthropist. Attended Tenterfield High in 1959
• Charlie Tapscott, two time paralympian silver medalist
• Major J.F. Thomas, a solicitor known for his vigorous defence of Harry "Breaker" Morant,Unkles, James, Ready, Aim, Fire : Major James Francis Thomas, the Fourth Victim in the Execution of Lieutenant Harry "Breaker" Morant, Sid Harta Publishers, (Glen Waverley), 2018. {{ISBN|978-1-9252-3050-5}} and once owned and operated the Tenterfield Star newspaper.{{Cite web |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/126299185 |title=Brief Mention, The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser, (Friday, 23 Sep 1898), p.4. |newspaper=Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser |date=23 September 1898 |access-date=17 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218010921/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/126299185 |archive-date=18 December 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }} Jack Thompson portrayed Thomas in the 1980 film Breaker Morant
• Edward Reeves Whereat (1840–1894), an early community leader
• George Woolnough, Allen's grandfather, a saddler, the third person to own the saddlery and the subject of Allen's song "Tenterfield Saddler"
• Oliver Woodward, decorated First World War veteran and metallurgist

• The first campdraft ever held (to rules) was held in Tenterfield in c.1885.Tenterfield & District, Tenterfield & District Visitors Assoc., n.d.
• The Australian showjumping record was broken at Tenterfield in 1926 Mrs A. A. Laidlaw's "Lookout", ridden by A. McPhee jumped 7’10¼".
• The world showjumping record was broken at Tenterfield in 1936 by C. H. Perry's "Lookout", ridden by W Marton when he jumped 8’3½".
• Guinness World Record achieved by then local Police Sergeant Troy Grant at the Tenterfield Golf Club in 2004 for the most holes of golf completed in 7 days.{{cite web|last1=Adams|first1=Matt|title=Rusty putts his way to world record|url=http://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/1103395/rusty-putts-his-way-to-world-record/|website=Northern Daily Leader|access-date=14 January 2017|date=10 February 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116181044/http://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/1103395/rusty-putts-his-way-to-world-record/|archive-date=16 January 2017|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}

File:Tenterfield entrance sign.jpg|Entrance sign to Tenterfield

File:View of Tenterfield Joseph Backler p2 00036h.jpg|Tenterfield in 1861

File:StateLibQld 1 236927 View of Tenterfield, New South Wales, 1887.jpg|View of Tenterfield 1887

File:StateLibQld 2 236899 Main street through Tenterfield with Queensland's ranges in the background.jpg|Main Street 1887

File:Drovers, Roseneath sheep station, Tenterfield, 1942 - unknown photographer for Walkabout magazine (5038009366).jpg|Drovers, 1942

File:Tenterfield Post Office 009.JPG|Tenterfield Post Office

File:Tenterfield (2).JPG|Post Office, Rouse Street

File:Tenterfield Post Office 005.JPG|Plaque with postcode

File:Tenterfield (10).JPG|Railway Station, now a museum

File:Picking cherries at the Miller orchard "The Poplars" - Tenterfield, NSW, ca. 1900 - photographer A.B. Butler (5222268381).jpg|Cherry pickers 1900

File:Scrub School - Tenterfield area, NSW, 1923 - Billy Butter's Studio, Tenterfield (3523860399).jpg|Scrub school 1923

File:Tenterfield Rural Bank 002.JPG|Tenterfield Rural Bank

File:Polling booth at Mingoola Hall, Mingoola, Mole Crossing, Tenterfield. 1924 Buick on right - Tenterfield area, NSW, c. 1925 (9666083743).jpg|Polling booth c.1925

File:Tenterfield Telegraph Hotel 004.JPG|Telegraph Hotel

File:Weather Predicting Rock - panoramio.jpg|Weather predicting rock

File:Tenterfield Creek-1 (17300606016).jpg|Tenterfield Creek

File:Tenterfield Blue Belle Cafe.JPG|Blue Belle Café

File:Tenterfield Shops-1 (14009675628).jpg|Shops in Tenterfield

File:Tenterfield Countryside in Autumn-1 (8713175322).jpg|Autumn colours

File:Tenterfield rocks.jpg|Granite boulders on Kildare Road, Tenterfield

File:Three women spinning wool to knit socks for soldiers during World War I - Tenterfield, NSW, ca. 1915.jpg|Spinning wool to knit socks for soldiers during World War I 1915

File:Tenterfield Boer War Memorial 001.JPG|Boer War Memorial

File:Tenterfield Rail Bridge - panoramio.jpg|Rail bridge

File:Tenterfield Home-1 (13986027560).jpg|House in Tenterfield

File:Cork tree TenterfieldIMG 20230216 084535.jpg|Edward Parker's 1861 Cork Tree

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• High Conservation Value Old Growth forest
• Federation of Australia
• Sir Henry Parkes
• Tenterfield Saddler

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• {{Citation |last=Donald|first=J. Kay|year=1987|publisher=Kangaroo Press|location=Kenthurst, NSW|isbn=0864171218|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12632651?q&versionId=45771563|title=Exploring the North Coast and New England}}
• {{Citation |author1=Richardson, Duncan |title=Captives of the 'Spanish lady' : 700 Queenslanders in quarantine - Tenterfield 1919 |publication-date=2019 |publisher=Pula Press |isbn=978-0-244-50586-8}}

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• [http://www.tenterfield.nsw.gov.au Local government site]
• [http://www.visittenterfield.com.au Tenterfield Business & Tourism Gateway]
• [http://www.tenterfield.biz/ Tenterfield Accommodation Directory]
• [https://www.visittenterfield.com.au/ Tenterfield Attractions]

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