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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| type      = town
| name      = Jerrawa
| state     = nsw
| image     = Jerrawa.jpg
| caption   = Community hall and Anglican church at Jerrawa.
| coordinates = {{coord|34|46|46|S|149|04|27|E|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_label_position = right
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in New South Wales
| lga       = [[Upper Lachlan Shire]]
| county    = [[King County, New South Wales|King]]
| parish    = Jerrawa
| region    = Southern Tablelands
| postcode  = 2582
| pop       =
| pop_year  =
| pop_footnotes =
| elevation = 594
| stategov  = [[Electoral district of Goulburn|Goulburn]]
| fedgov    = [[Division of Hume|Hume]]
| dist1     = 19
| dir1      = E
| location1 = [[Yass, New South Wales|Yass]]
| dist2     = 67
| dir2      = W
| location2 = [[Goulburn]]
| dist3     = 263
| dir3      = SW
| location3 = [[Sydney]]
| near-n    = [[Broadway, New South Wales (Upper Lachlan)|Broadway]]
| near-ne   = [[Dalton, New South Wales|Dalton]]
| near-e    = [[Oolong, New South Wales|Oolong]]
| near-se   = [[Lade Vale]]
| near-s    = [[Lade Vale]]
| near-sw   = [[Manton, New South Wales|Manton]]
| near-w    = [[Bango, New South Wales|Bango]]
| near-nw   = [[Broadway, New South Wales (Upper Lachlan)|Broadway]]
}}
'''Jerrawa''' ({{IPAc-en|dʒ|ɛ|r|ə|w|ə}}) is a locality in the [[Upper Lachlan Shire]], [[New South Wales]], Australia.<ref name="GNR">{{cite web |url=https://proposals.gnb.nsw.gov.au/public/geonames/45aaac6e-9bf8-4314-8659-4a6749d9d36f|publisher=[[Geographical Names Board of New South Wales|Geographical Names Board]]|title=	Jerrawa|accessdate=19 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6074552|publisher =OpenStreetMap|title=	Jerrawa|accessdate=19 March 2021}}</ref> It lies on the north side of the [[Hume Highway]] about 30&nbsp;km to the east of [[Yass, New South Wales|Yass]] and was served by [[Jerrawa railway station]] on the [[Main Southern railway line, New South Wales|Main Southern line]] between [[Sydney]] and [[Melbourne]] between 1876 and 1975.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=http://www.nswrail.net/locations/show.php?name=NSW:Jerrawa&line=NSW:main_south:0|title=Jerrawa Station|accessdate=3 August 2017}}</ref> At the {{CensusAU|2016}}, it had a population of 73.<ref name="census2106">{{Census 2016 AUS | id = SSC12018| name = Jerrawa| quick = on | accessdate = 3 August 2017}}</ref>
The area now known as Jerrawa lies on the traditional lands of the [[Gandangara]] or the [[Ngunnawal]] peoples.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tindale Tribes - Gandangara|url=http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/gandangara.htm|access-date=2021-03-18|website=archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au|archive-date=27 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027024501/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/gandangara.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-09-24|title=Portion of map of Aboriginal traditional lands|url=http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/img/map_aus/aboriginal_australia_map_e4.jpg|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924025453/http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/img/map_aus/aboriginal_australia_map_e4.jpg|archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref> These two groups spoke a closely related, if not identical, language. The name Jerrawa is said to be a settler rendering of an aboriginal language word for 'iguana',<ref>{{Cite web|title=NSW Railway Station Names and Origins|url=https://www.nswrail.net/library/station_names.php|access-date=2021-03-18|website=www.nswrail.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Names of railway stations in New South Wales : with their meaning and origin|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/6502911|access-date=2021-03-18|website=trove.nla.gov.au}}</ref> probably referring to the [[goanna]].
The railway station and siding were situated at a location where the railway line gradient was flat, after rising from the bridge over [[Jerrawa Creek]] and then rising again to the west.<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 1999|title=TS 0002 TI - INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING MANUAL, Curve and Gradient Diagrams (Version 2)|url=https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/media/documents/2017/Curve_and_Gradient_Diagrams_V2-0_b.pdf|publisher=Rail Access Corporation|page=S00 - 15}}</ref>  A small settlement, including an Anglican church (Christ Church), a hall, and a school, developed on the southern side of the railway line, near the railway station.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Parish of Jerrawa, County of King [cartographic material] : Land Districts of Gunning and Yass, Gunning & Goodradigbee Shires, Eastern Division N.S.W.|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233908994|access-date=2021-03-18|website=Trove|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jerrawa - Satellite View|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Jerrawa+NSW+2582/@-34.7859995,149.0855445,431m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x6b171ffb934346db:0x40609b49043def0!8m2!3d-34.7939997!4d149.0830108|access-date=2021-03-18|website=Google Maps|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jerrawa|url=https://www.weekendnotes.com/jerrawa/|access-date=2021-03-18|website=www.weekendnotes.com}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=McJannett|first=Ray|date=2018-09-18|title=In Jerrawa: The hall that once rocked|url=https://www.yasstribune.com.au/story/5653709/in-jerrawa-the-hall-that-once-rocked/|access-date=2021-03-18|website=Yass Tribune|language=en-AU}}</ref> Some of the houses in the settlement were for railway employees. It seems that the settlement was never proclaimed as a village.
The school operated from 1877 to 1963.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jerrawa|url=https://nswgovschoolhistory.cese.nsw.gov.au/schoolHistory?schoolId=4164|access-date=2021-03-18|website=nswgovschoolhistory.cese.nsw.gov.au}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-08-16|title=Jerrawa Public School|url=https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/image/15051_a047_006914|access-date=2021-03-18|website=www.records.nsw.gov.au|language=en}}</ref> Jerrawa had a store that also served as its post office.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Old store and Post Office - Jerrawa|url=https://mapio.net/pic/p-11905542/|access-date=2021-03-18|website=Mapio.net|language=en}}</ref> There was no Methodist church at Jerrawa but its inhabitants used the isolated Greendale church and cemetery, which was already in existence from 1862 and predated the settlement at Jerrawa.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Greendale Cemetery|url=http://www.gundaroo.info/genealogy/cemeteries/greendal/greendal.htm|access-date=2021-03-18|website=www.gundaroo.info}}</ref>
In August 1938, Jerrawa was in the path of a violent [[whirlwind]] that left a trail of damage a mile and a half long and 500 yards wide, damaging some of the settlement's buildings, in less than a minute.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1938-08-29|title=WHIRLWIND STRIKES JERRAWA|pages=2|work=Yass Tribune-Courier (NSW : 1929 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article249562929|access-date=2021-03-18}}</ref>
The presence of an iron ore deposit at Jerrawa had been known since around 1879.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1879-11-29|title=GOULBURN.|pages=5|work=Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13446572|access-date=2021-03-31}}</ref> During the Second World War, with a shortage of coastal shipping, local sources or iron ore were mined to feed the steelworks at [[Port Kembla, New South Wales|Port Kembla]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=1941-11-15|title=N.S.W. MINERAL WEALTH IN WAR-TIME|pages=20|work=Smith's Weekly (Sydney, NSW : 1919 - 1950)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article234602564|access-date=2021-03-31}}</ref> One of these wartime ore mines was at Jerrawa.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1941-05-01|title=MINING REVIVAL|pages=6|work=Yass Tribune-Courier (NSW : 1929 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article249830399|access-date=2021-03-31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1941-05-05|title=JERRAWA|pages=2|work=Yass Tribune-Courier (NSW : 1929 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article249830527|access-date=2021-03-31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1942-01-12|title=IRON ORE|pages=1|work=Yass Tribune-Courier (NSW : 1929 - 1954)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article249836366|access-date=2021-03-31}}</ref>
Jerrawa's hall is falling into disrepair.<ref name=":0" /> Jerrawa has a showground and holds an annual [[agricultural show]], around Easter time, referred to as 'the Little [[Easter Show]].'<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jerrawa Show - Agshows NSW - Your Country Show Movement|url=https://www.agshowsnsw.org.au/shows/all-shows/146-jerrawa-show|access-date=2021-03-18|website=www.agshowsnsw.org.au}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-11-01|title=ABN Lookup|url=https://abr.business.gov.au/|access-date=2021-03-18|website=abr.business.gov.au|language=en}}</ref> The old store still exists but is now a private residence.<ref name=":1" /> All that remains of the old railway station is its sign, which has been re-erected beside the railway line.<ref name=":2" />
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[[Category:Southern Tablelands]]