Jindera

Postcode: 2642

Jindera is a town in the central part of the Riverina and situated about 19 kilometres North from Albury and 32 kilometres south east from Walbundrie. At the 2001 census Jindera had a population of 956 residents.

A small township near Albury and is the home of the award-winning Jindera Pioneer Museum.

During the nineteenth century Jindera saw a substantial population of German Australians who had migrated to the Riverina in the 1860s, principally from South Australia.

The first European settler in the area was John Dight, a friend of Hamilton Hume. A small village developed on his property known as Dight's Forest, which managed to sustain four hotels, as well as a butcher, a baker and a flour mill.

In the 1860s German immigrants in search of land journeyed from South Australia up the Murray Valley by wagon-train. Many settled in the town which was gazetted as Jindera in 1869. One apocryphal story has it that the name derives from an Aboriginal couple called Jim and Dora.

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