Editing Albury (section)

===Frontier town===
[[File:AlburyHistoricCourtHouse2.JPG|left|thumb|The historic Albury Court House was completed in 1860]]
By 1847 the Albury settlement included two [[public house]]s and a handful of huts, a police barracks and a blacksmiths. A log punt established in 1844 serviced the crossing of the [[Murray River]]. Albury Post Office opened on 1 April 1843, closed in 1845, then reopened in the township on 1 February 1847.<ref name="a">{{cite web | last = Phoenix Plaza History | title = Post Office List | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=NSW&filter=*Albury*| access-date = 23 January 2021 }}</ref>

In 1851, with the separation of Victoria from New South Wales, and the border falling on the Murray River, Albury found itself a frontier town. With an increase in commerce with Melbourne, the first bridge was built in 1860 to the design of surveyor [[William Snell Chauncy]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Anna Cox (1820–1895)|url=https://hardwick.site/anna.cox|access-date=1 June 2021|website=hardwick.site}}</ref> Albury at this time became a customs post between the two colonies as New South Wales held a protectionist stance after gaining its constitution in 1856.

Albury was at this time starting to grow substantially with [[German settlements in the Riverina|German speaking immigrants]] using the area to grow grapes for wine. By the 1870s a butter factory was established, [[flour mill]], [[wineries]] and locally brewed [[cider]] and soft drinks were available.{{Citation needed|date=October 2016}}

[[File:Albury NSW 1881 bird's-eye view Gibbs, Shallard, & Co.jpg|thumb|400px|Birds-eye view of Albury, New South Wales, 1881, by Gibbs, Shallard, & Co.]]
The railway line from Sydney arrived at Albury in 1881 (see [[#Rail|Transport-Rail]] below). A temporary wooden railway bridge joined the line to the Victorian network in 1883. New South Wales and Victoria had different track gauges until 1962, when the first train ran direct from Sydney to Melbourne. The two states could not initially agree which should be the transfer point so they had an expensive and attractive iron lattice bridge sent from Scotland which accommodated both gauges.

There was a school operating at Albury in 1848, catering for 13 private students. The following year the first National School opened on the corner of Dean and Kiewa Streets, with 73 students enrolled. In 1862 a new school was built in Olive Street on land which is now part of Albury Public School. The city's first mayor, James Fallon, was an innovator of the [[Public school (government funded)|Public School]], funding a demonstration High School to be built on Kiewa Streets. {{Citation needed|date=October 2016}} Albury High School opened in Kiewa Street in 1927.