Trewilga

The area later known as Trewilga lay on the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri people. An Aboriginal basalt quarry site has been identified near Trewilga and bi-facial choppers, numerous broken choppers, and stone flakes were recorded there.[5] There is a significant Wiradjuri population in the nearby town of Peak Hill.[6]

The area was opened up in the Australian Gold Rush.

A village was gazetted in 1889.[7] The village was originally known as Mingelo. A school opened in January 1892.[8] The post office was renamed Trewiliga in 1905,[9] and the school in 1912.[8] However, the village itself was not officially renamed Trewilga, until 1913,[10] in time for the opening of its new railway station in 1914.[11] Some land was sold to the west of the original village, just east of the new railway station. A cemetery was dedicated to the north-west of the village.[7][12][13]

The school closed in 1951.[8] Trewilga railway station closed in 1974[11] and its post office closed in 1976. The Village of Trewilga ceased to exist officially, in 1979, when its name was discontinued by the Geographical Names Board of N.S.W.[14]

During the First World War, an estate known as 'Harvey Park', three miles from Trewilga railway station—in the neighbouring County of Kennedy—was sub-divided into 22 farms as part of the Soldier Settlement program. Some of the men placed on the soldiers settlement had lost limbs as the result of wounds in battle but, after receiving artificial limbs, worked their farms themselves.[15] The new farms were not viable[16][17] and many soldier settlers walked off their land, thereby forfeiting the both land and the cost of any improvements they had made.[18]