MOGO

Alluvial gold was discovered near Mogo in 1851, leading to a gold rush that eventually extended throughout a wider Mogo-Nerrigundah-Araluen-Majors Creek area. About 7,000 Chinese were attracted to the diggings, usually working in highly-efficient teams to extract the gold.

Gold mining was to continue in the area for about a century, but by 1879 little mining was being undertaken in Mogo itself and the township was virtually deserted.

The town then reverted to become a sleepy highway town before it was revitalised as a tourist stop in the 1990s.

In 1991 the world-class privately-owned Mogo Zoo was established. It specialises in caring for endangered animals.

(A more comprehensive history of Mogo will supersede the above - hopefully in the not-too-distant future.)