What is Jugiong?
{{Infobox Australian place | type = town | name = Jugiong | state = nsw | image = Entering Jugiong.jpg | caption = Entering Jugiong at the old Hume Highway | coordinates = {{coord|34|49|23|S|148|19|29|E|display=inline,title}} | lga = Hilltops Council | postcode = 2726 | pop = 303 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2011}} | pop_footnotes = <ref name=Census>{{Census 2011 AUS|id=SSC11189|name=Jugiong (State Suburb)|accessdate=3 April 2015|quick=on}}</ref> | est = | elevation= 303 | maxtemp = | mintemp = | rainfall = | stategov = [[Electoral district of Cootamundra|Cootamundra]] | fedgov = [[Division of Hume|Hume]] | dist1 = 30 | location1= [[Bookham, New South Wales|Bookham]] | dist2 = 40 | location2= [[Gundagai, New South Wales|Gundagai]] }} '''Jugiong''' is a small [[village]] on the bank of the [[Murrumbidgee River]] in [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]]. It is 344&nbsp;km south west of [[Sydney]] on the [[Hume Highway]]. The first people to live in the area were [[indigenous Australians]], the Wiradjuri people. The first [[Europe]]ans were the [[explorer]]s [[Hamilton Hume]] and [[William Hovell]] on their trip in 1824.<ref name=history>{{citation |author=Unknown |title=A Brief History of Jugiong |publisher=Jugiong Village and Development Committee|date=1996 }}</ref> Henry O'Brien, an [[Irish people|Irishman]], started farming [[sheep]] in 1825. His farm, called the Jugiong Run, was 125,000 acres.<ref name=history/> Explorer [[Charles Sturt]] reached the Murrumbidgee at Jugiong in 1829 at the start of his travels down the river. ==Tavern== [[Image:Jugiong Tavern.JPG|thumb|left|Sir George Tavern at Jugiong]] In 1845 another Irishman named John Philip Sheahan (1816–December 9, 1877)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://members.iinet.net.au/~sgrieves/jugiong_cemetery.htm|title=Jugiong Cemetery|website=members.iinet.net.au}}</ref> built the Sir George Tavern (an [[hotel]]) which made Jugiong an important resting place on the new road, the ''Great Southern Road'', to [[Melbourne]]. The buildin