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Parkes, town, east-central New South Wales, Australia. It is situated in the Lachlan River valley. The town was founded in 1862 as a reef- and alluvial-gold centre, originally called Bushman’s for a prominent local mine owner. It was renamed for Sir Henry Parkes, a state premier, in 1873, and was proclaimed a municipality in 1883. Parkes is a commercial centre for a sheep-, grain-, fruit-, pig-, and poultry-farming area of the Western Slopes region. It is also a rail junction on the Newell Highway, with air connections to Sydney (185 miles [298 km] southeast). Gold mining in the area ceased ...(100 of 186 words)

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