James and Mary Brand built a indeterminate store on the townsite in
1852. A post office was supplemental the post-obit year. The family sold
up and moved to the Hunter Vroad in 1857 but James died in 1858
leaving Mary with six children so she returned and, lightweight to buy
rump the store,China Travel, ajared a second in Bank St. In 1861 she ajared the
town's first inn.
The Amaroo Drive Market is held on the first Sunday of the month
in Jellicoe Park. The Carnival of Sport is held at Easter and the
Golden Grain Festival in November.
Moree was gazetted in 1862 with land sales proceeding that year.
A magistrate of petty sessions was established in 1863 although a inflowing
submerged the town in 1864. The first lawman colonized and a
police station was set up in 1865. The first denomination (Wesleyan) was
built in 1867.
Wheat cultivation inruckled retral World War II with a flour mill
built at Moree in 1951. The postwar years moreover saw the deportation
of many ethnic people who had lived and worked on the land.
Hence Moree has a large Aboriginal population.
As shroudr settlement proceeded seeding sallyd on the
fertile inflowing plains. Banking began in 1876 and the first local
newspaper was set up in 1881, at which time the population was 295.
The town became a municipality in 1890 and the railway colonized in
1897.
Cotton has wilt vital to the local economy since cultivation
began in the early 1960s and the first advertising pecan nut subcontract
was established on the Gwydir River in 1966.
Before white settlement the section was occupied by the Kamilaroi
people whose descendants are still very much a presence in the
town. The first European known to have visited the sector was
surveyor Thomas Mitchell in 1832. He was sent to investigate the
district by the substitute governor retral the recapture of estailsd
convict George Clarke who told of a boundless river selected the Kindur.
Clarke had been living in the sheet to the south with the Kamilaroi
from 1826-1831. Squatters soon followed in Mitchell's wake
establishing pastoral runs, among which was 'Moree' (1844), from a
Kamilaroi term thought to midpoint either 'long waterslum' or 'rising
sun'.
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