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-{{For|the village in Burkina Faso|Bargo, Burkina Faso}}
-{{Infobox Australian Place | type = town
-| name     = Bargo
-| region   = [[Macarthur (New South Wales)|Macarthur]]
-| state    = nsw
-| latd  =34 |latm =18 |lats  =
-| longd =150 |longm =35 |longs =
-| pushpin_label_position = right
-| lga      = [[Wollondilly Shire]]
-| postcode = 2574
-| pop      = 3952<ref>[http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/ViewData?method=Place%20of%20Usual%20Residence&subaction=2&producttype=QuickStats&areacode=SSC16161&action=401&collection=Census&textversion=true&breadcrumb=PL&period=2006&navmapdisplayed=true& 2006 Census QuickStats : Bargo (State Suburb)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> (2006)
-| stategov = [[Electoral district of Wollondilly|Wollondilly]]
-| fedgov   = [[Division of Hume|Hume]], [[Division of Throsby|Throsby]]
-| near-s   = [[Yanderra, New South Wales|Yanderra]]
-| near-se  = [[Upper_Nepean_Scheme#Avon_Dam|Upper Nepean Catchment Area]]
-| near-e   = [[Pheasants Nest, New South Wales|Pheasants Nest]]
-| near-nw  = [[Couridjah, New South Wales|Couridjah]]
-| near-n   = [[Tahmoor, New South Wales|Tahmoor]]
-| dist1    = 100
-| dir1     = South-West
-| location1= [[Sydney CBD]]
-| propval  = [http://www.domain.com.au/public/SuburbProfile.aspx?searchTerm=Bargo&mode=%20$$350,000#mapanchor $350,000] (2008)
-}}
-'''Bargo''' is a small town of the [[Macarthur, New South Wales|Macarthur Region]], [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]] in the [[Wollondilly Shire]]. It is approximately 100&nbsp;km south west of [[Sydney, New South Wales|Sydney]]. .
-It is situated between the township of [[Tahmoor]] (north) and the village of [[Yanderra, New South Wales|Yanderra]] (south), and accessible via the Hume Highway that links Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. It was previously known as '''West Bargo''' and '''Cobargo'''.
-Bargo is one of the largest towns in New South Wales without a [[sanitary sewer|sewerage]] system.
-==Facilities==
-[[Image:Bargo Station 2.jpg|thumb|left|Bargo station]]
-[[Bargo railway station, New South Wales|Bargo railway station]] was first opened on July 19, 1919 as ''West Bargo'' and then renamed in 1921 as ''Bargo.'' <ref>[http://www.nswrail.net/locations/show.php?name=NSW:Bargo&line=NSW:main_south:0 NSWrail.net | Bargo Station<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>. The station is part of the [[Southern Highlands railway line, New South Wales|Southern Highlands Line]] or [[Main Southern railway line, New South Wales|Main South Line]] which under [[CityRail]] goes to Sydney and under [[CountryLink]] and [[Melbourne]]. The original Bargo railway station building on the eastern side of the platform was destroyed by [[arson]]. Currently in use is a permanent [[demountable]] building.
-[[File:Bargo Australia Main Street.jpg|thumb|right|Bargo township, on Remembrance Drive]]
-Bargo's community facilities include a racetrack, sporting fields and skatepark. Its commercial facilities include a hotel, motel, post office, a sports club, a small grocery store, chemist, bakery, butcher, newsagent, liquor store, restaurants (including bistros at the pub and club), petrol stations, veterinary surgery, pharmacy, a [[Lifeline]] store and several other small businesses, including a used car dealership.
-==History==
-* The name Bargo may be derived from the local [[Australian Aborigines|Aboriginal]] language, meaning "cripple".<ref>A. W. Reed gives the following: 'Bargo: a corruption of the Aboriginal name Barago, Thick scrub, or Brushwood. It was sometimes called Bargo Brush.' Reed, A. W. 1973. ''Australian Place Names'' Artarmon, Reed. ISBN 0 589 07 115 7</ref>
-W. A. Bayley notes:
-“The earliest reference to "Barago" has been noted as by [[George Caley]] in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks on September 25, 1807. The aborigines called the Bargo area 'Narregarang', meaning that the soil was not firm - a shaky place.”<ref>Bayley, W. A. 1973 Picton-Mittagong Loop-Line Railway. p.8-11 Bulli: Austrail. ISBN 0 909597 14 Bayley offers several pages of historical information about the area of Bargo Brush.</ref><ref>{{cite web
-  | title =Bargo
-  | publisher =[[Geographical Names Board of New South Wales]]
-  | url =http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name_search/extract?id=MajtWyWA  | format =
-  | accessdate =10 June 2009  }}</ref> Early explorers and convicts found getting through the Bargo area a difficult experience due to the thick scrub, explorers dubbing the tricky bush the ''Bargo Brush''. In early Colonial times, 'Bargo Brush' became notorious among travelers for harboring 'bolters', convicts who had escaped from captivity and become [[bushrangers]].<ref>Appleton, R & B. 1992. ''The Cambridge Dictionary of Australian Places.'' Cambridge University Press. ISBN  0 521 39506 2</ref>
-Bayley quotes William Riley, who passed through Bargo Brush on horseback in 1830:
-<blockquote>"... a miserable, barren scrub, thickly wooded for eight miles; there having been so much rain lately this abominable part of the road was a continuation of bogs for eight miles." Soon the Brush, with its thickets for hideouts, became the lurking place for robbers and caused travel to become fraught with peril. The ''Sydney Gazette'' of March 17, 1832 reported the road as ". . . one uninterrupted morass"!<ref>Bayley, W. A. 1975. Picton-Mittagong Main Line Railway. p. 8-11 Bulli: Austrail. ISBN 0 909597 15 4</ref></blockquote>
-J. H. Heaton, under the heading 'Crimes and Criminals, Remarkable' lists "Desperate conflict between four police and eleven prisoners at Bargo Brush, N.S.W. Constable Raymond shot dead by a prisoner named James Crookwell, April 15, 1866.<ref>Heaton, J. H. 1879. ''Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time: containing the history of Australia from 1542 to May, 1879.'' Sydney, George Roberston.</ref>
-The ''Bargo Brush'' is a rare shrub found only in abundance in the Bargo area.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}  Not a lot is known about the ''Bargo Brush'', but it can be seen sprouting out of disturbed soil when bushwalking.
-* Bargo is noted{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}} as being where the first recorded sightings of the [[lyrebird]], [[koala]] and [[wombat]] took place by European settlers.
-* Bargo is also the site of a famous [[List of massacres of Indigenous Australians|massacre]], when settlers forced local Aborigines to walk off a big cliff and shot them if they refused.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}
-* Bargo Police Station, now abandoned, is currently used as a doctors' surgery. The lock-ups remain behind the building. The patrol area of the Bargo Police Station included Pheasants Nest, Bargo, parts of Tahmoor and Yanderra.
-==Location==
-The Bargo township border runs from Bargo River Road, south along Bargo River to perpendicular with Tylers Road, along Tylers Road, then south along Silica Road to Remembrance Drive, North along the freeway to perpendicular with and along Dwyers to north along Arina Road and back to Bargo River.
-[[File:Bargo aerial.jpg|thumb|left|Bargo aerial photo from north west]]
-==Attractions==
-'''Nepean and Avon Dams'''
-Natural attractions like the [[Upper Nepean Scheme#Avon Dam|Avon]] and [[Upper Nepean Scheme#Nepean Dam|Nepean]] Dams are a popular attraction for family picnics and for viewing local and Illawarra water catchments and bushland.
-'''Wirrimbirra Sanctuary'''
-Bargo is home to animal reserves like the [[Wirrimbirra Sanctuary|Wirrimbirra Native Sanctuary]], established by [[Thistle Yolette Harris|Thistle Harris]] in the 1960s, which offers bushland walks on well-maintained walking tracks, flora and fauna awareness programs, a small cafe, and a walk-in animal pen featuring wallabies.
-'''Mermaid Pools and the Potholes'''
-Mermaid Pools and the Potholes are located on the [[Wollondilly River]] and are open to the public for swimming.
-Historically, Mermaid Pools was a local sacred aboriginal site for women. It is believed to be protected by spirits. In addition, the Potholes which is located near Mermaid Pools have been a local communal gathering point for summer swimming since early European Settlers and continues to be a attraction for local residents.
-==Organisations==
-'''Yerrinbool-Bargo Bushrangers'''
-Bargo is home to the '''Yerrinbool-Bargo Bushrangers''' football team. The team was established by a group of men in the Pub one night, the Bushrangers now have teams from Under 6 to All Age Men & Women competing in the Highlands Competition. Notably, the Yerrinbool-Bargo coalition soccer team is one of the only local soccer teams where two places of different regions and councils form a coalition; [[Yerrinbool, New South Wales|Yerrinbool]] is of the [[Southern Highlands]] and [[Wingecarribee Shire]] whilst Bargo is part of the [[Wollondilly Shire]] and [[Macarthur, New South Wales|Macarthur]] Region.
-'''Bargo Rural Fire Brigade'''
-[[Bargo Rural Fire Brigade]] was established 1939. From its humble beginnings, the brigade's few handtools and drum of water have been constantly upgraded to its present day Heavy Tanker and Light Tankers, housed in the purpose-built Village Two category building on the outskirts of the township. The brigade's services include fighting bushfires in the local surroundings and attending vehicle accidents on the Hume Highway where passes through [[Wilton, New South Wales|Wilton]], [[Pheasants Nest, New South Wales|Pheasants Nest]] and [[Yanderra, New South Wales|Yanderra]]. Bargo Fire Brigade assists with out-of-area disasters, for example, the 1994 Sydney Bushfires, the Sydney Hail Storm of 1999, the bushfires of the Christmas period 2001/2002, and 2007 Gosford storm damage.
-The Brigade celebrated its 70th year of operation on December 26, 2009.
-==In popular culture==
-W. A. Bayely observed:
-<blockquote>"The whole road was a nightmare with its succession of bogs where [[Ox|bullock]] waggons sank to their axles. Drivers cut saplings to [[Corduroy road|corduroy]] sections of the road and threw stones into bogholes. Teams on unbogged waggons were attached to teams on bogged vehicles to help pull them free; sometimes only to see them sink again! A waggon could take a couple of days from Bargo River to [[Mittagong]], camping the night anywhere around [[Yerrinbool]], then called Little Forest, before the steep climb of Catherine Hill which would then be attacked with fresh bullocks in the morning... The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' of June 2, 1865 reported that it had not been uncommon to see all the types of vehicles 'stuck fast or rather half buried in the numerous sloughs ... filled with mud .'<ref>Bayley, W. A. 1975. Picton-Mittagong Main Line Railway. p. 8 Bulli: Austrail. ISBN 0 909597 15 4</ref></blockquote>
-A verse of the Australian folk song ''[[Stringybark]] and [[Greenhide]]'' (''circa'' 1865) celebrates the bad reputation among [[bullockies]] of the Bargo roads:
-“If you travel on the road, and chance to stick in Bargo,<br>
-To avoid a bad capsize, you must unload your cargo;<br>
-For to pull a dray about, I do not see the force on,<br>
-Take a bit of greenhide, and hook another horse on.”
-<ref>Edwards, Ron. 1991. ''Great Australian Folk Songs.'' Willoughby, Ure Smith. p. 354. ISBN 0 7254 0861 8</ref>
-==External links==
-* [http://www.bargo.rfsa.org.au Bargo Volunteer Rural Fire Brigade]
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-==References==
-{{Reflist}}
-{{Sydney Wollondilly suburbs}}
-[[Category:Towns in New South Wales]]
-[[Category:Towns in the Macarthur Region]]