Welcome to Toganmain Woolshed
🔨 Get Involved as a Volunteer 🔨
If you'd like to get involved as a volunteer, there's no better time than now to put your name on the list.
We're taking a well-earned break during the hotter months, but you can get ahead by submitting your application today. That way, you'll be ready to jump in as soon as we announce next year's working bee schedule.
Available now - Toganmain Woolshed: Then and Now — not to mention all sorts of other goodies! Click the button above to check it out.
Toganmain YouTube Channel
We've made ourselves a YouTube channel. Click the button below to check out the last time Toganmain was used for shearing, as well as a few clips from our most recent working bee.
We'll be adding more videos for your enjoyment soon.
Toganmain Stories
Toganmain has touched a lot of lives — shearers, classers, drovers, station hands, and the families who knew them. We're slowly drawing those memories together, putting names to faces and places to dates, and sharing them on our blog, The Holding Pen, as they come in.
Did you work at Toganmain? Did a parent, an uncle, a neighbour, a friend? We'd love to hear your story.
Where is Toganmain, and how can I visit?
Toganmain sits on the Murrumbidgee River deep in the Riverina, between Darlington Point and Carrathool. Whether you're coming for an event or making a trip of it, our visiting guide shows you how to find us, where to stay, and what to see in the surrounding district.
Can't make it to an Open Day? If you're planning to be in the area, it's sometimes possible to arrange a private tour, depending on the availability of our volunteer guides - and the more notice you give us, the better.
Directions, nearby accommodation and attractions, and the tour request form are all on one page.
Toganmain in the Media
Toganmain has featured on television and, more recently, on a national farming podcast - catch up on the coverage below.
ABC Landline first told our story in July 2024, covering the history of the woolshed and the volunteers working to restore it. Click the button below to watch.
Landline returned in June 2025 with plenty of updates and coverage of our 150th Celebration weekend.
In June 2026, the Farm Machines & In-Betweens podcast came out to the shed. Host John Francic sits down with Christine Chirgwin to explore 150 years of Toganmain and the volunteer effort preserving it.
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Toganmain: A Legacy of Riverina Wool
Nestled between Darlington Point and Carrathool along the Murrumbidgee River, Toganmain Station was a key player in the Riverina's wool industry. Established by Sir Alexander Macleay and expanded by the Robertson family from 1867, it boasted 167,000 acres and significant river frontage. In its prime, the station's massive 75 by 25 metre woolshed, equipped with 110 blade stands and later Wolseley machines, was renowned for its high-quality wool. Toganmain's prosperity mirrored the wool boom of the early 20th century but waned with the advent of synthetic fibres and drought. Today, it remains a symbol of Australia's rich pastoral history.
Even today the woolshed conjures up memories of the great pastoral holdings which occupied Murrumbidgee River frontage from Darlington Point to Hay. The vision for the site is an immersive curated museum that will use recorded oral shearers' stories, written accounts and interpretative signage, to bring to life Australia's vital pastoral history in an environment which stimulates all the senses.
2024 Page Images: Phil Duval
