Tabulam, a small country village on the Bruxner Highway 53 km. West of Casino and 70 km. east of Tenterfield. On a spring morning in Tabulam a visitor can capture a magic moment where they feel that they have just walked into an Arthur Streeton painting.

The magnificent single lane bridge offers tranquil views of a meandering Clarence River and the clear still air carries the imagination to a much loved landscape that is the Arcadian dream of rural Australia.

History

Traditional home of the Bundjalung Aboriginal people, white settlement began in 1839. The restored headstone of Peter Cunningham Pagan is situated beside the Tabulam Clarence Way, 7km from the Bruxner Highway. Peter Cunningham Pagan with his brother in law and partner William Tucker Evans were the first Europeans to settle this section of the Clarence river basin.

They took up Tabulam station in 1840 when Messrs Clay & Stapleton (who later settled at Casino), failed to take possession within the time allotted to them.

Pagan lost his life in an encounter with aborigines and was buried near the Clarence river approximately 2km northwest of the restored headstone. Erected by Brigadier Sir John Pagan and his family and the West of the Range Historical Society in July 1982.