EUROBODALLA

There is some doubt about whether Eurobodalla could accurately be described as a village or whether it was just a collection of a few essential services provided for the local farming community.

An 1871 newspaper article describes Eurobodalla as the estate of William Coman, Esq,, who is another of the oldest residents (of the South Coast), having arrived in the district over thirty years ago. Across the river from his property is where Australia’s first native-born poet, Charles Harpur, had lived.

‘Eurobodalla’ at various times had a cheese factory, a Church, a post office, a one-teacher school at which the remarkable Bridget Ryan/Bridget Johnson was the teacher for 45 years, a hall and other sporting facilities.

The property or village, controversially at the time, gave its name to Eurobodalla Shire when it was established in 1913.