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The Cobb & Co Festival (Australia's Last Run) was held on 16–25 August 2024, celebrating 100 years since the last horse-drawn stagecoach service from Surat to Yuleba on 14 August 1924. An estimated 20,000 people attended the festival.
The museum was originally established to house The Cobb & Co. Collection of W. R. F. Bolton [2] consisting of over thirty 19th century horse-drawn vehicles which he collected and had restored over a period of more than thirty years.
Cobb & Co. is a New Zealand family restaurant chain. [1] [2]It is New Zealand's oldest surviving family restaurant chain, [3] having opened its first branch in 1973. [4] Its name derives from the Cobb & Co stagecoach business originally founded in Australia in the 19th century by Freeman Cobb, although the chain has no direct historical connection with that company.
As Cobb & Co expanded their coaching routes across New South Wales the company obtained a growing number of mail contracts. Between 1874 and 1880 they established twice-weekly mail services linking Gilgandra to Dubbo and a service from Gulgong to Gilgandra via Cobbora and Mendooran then on to Curban, Gulargambone and Coonamble. [8]
In sheep-farming country, the area was serviced by the horse-drawn Cobb & Co. transport company, which was to make an impression on Bolton. In April 1918 the family, now living in the large provincial town of Toowoomba, started to experience financial hardship when the twelve-year-old Bill found the body of his father who had committed suicide. [3]
Freeman Cobb (10 October 1830 – 24 May 1878) [1] was an American, born in Brewster, Massachusetts, who established the Cobb & Co stagecoach company in 1853, with partners John Murray Peck, James Scanlon and John B. Lamber.
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The last advertised Cobb & Co coach runs were Arrowtown-Queenstown and Arrowtown-Dunedin in February 1925. [3] A Cobb & Co coach was paraded through Christchurch during their 75th anniversary celebrations in 1925.