Gerogery

Postcode: 2642

Gerogery is a small village in Greater Hume Shire Council in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Gerogery serves a rural farming community. The village is located on the Main South railway line between Sydney and Melbourne, where it intersects with the Olympic Way. Gerogery has a temperate climate. It lies close to the Yambla Range, with its striking Table Top and Sugar Loaf ridge at the southern end.

Gerogery is on land originally inhabited by the Wiradjuri people. In English, the place name is pronounced Jer-rodge-er-rree; however, in Indigenous language it could have been a repeated "Jerro-Jerro ee". Local understanding is the place is named after the Wiradjuri word for magpies, plentiful in the locality.

Gerogery was at the eastern-most extent of nineteenth century German immigration up the Murray River from South Australia.

The arrival of European settlers meant that trees were extensively cleared and wheat planted, along with sheep and cattle grazed.

The coming of the Sydney Great Southern Railway in 1880 made Gerogery the temporary terminus while building proceeded on to Albury. This railway resulted in moving the centre of population from an original settlement (now Gerogery West) to the railway line. The station master's residence is a beautiful two story house listed by the National Trust. The original station was removed in the 1980s.

The Gerogery Commemoration Hall was built in the 1920s. Many concerts and gatherings, including for the monthly Country Women's Association branch, have met here.

Gerogery Creek was "straightened" behind Gerogery as part of a work-for-the-dole scheme in the 1930s.

In the 1960s Aboriginal stone tools were found a couple of kilometres north-west of the township.

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