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The Uniting Church, formerly known as the Presbyterian Church. Finding a church in the bush in Tarnagulla formerly known as Sandy Creek.
What a history!

Facts:

The foundation stone of the new church was laid by George Thomson on the 23rd December, 1863, using an ivory handled, solid silver trowel made by Mr C. White, at the cost of about 7 pounds. This trowel is displayed in a case on the wall of the church to this day. Green & Gibson made and supplied the bricks, 25,550 being delivered. The type of brick supplied were; splay 1000, bevel 260, half circle 812, feather edge 700, and plain red 22,778.The new Church was opened on Sunday, June 19th, 1864.
The total cost of the Church was 1360 pounds, but with the building now complete, troubles began. With the slump of gold mining, between the alluvial and quartz periods, in the latter part of 1864 the population dropped considerably, resulting in a large falling off of the congregation. Rev. Hamilton left in 1866 and was succeeded by Rev. Adams, but the church was only open on occasions.
Became the Uniting Church since 1975.