Mongarlowe is a village in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council.

[4] Mongarlowe was a substantial mining settlement during the mid-19th century due to the New South Wales gold rush.

[5] The area now known as Mongarlowe lies on the traditional lands of Walbanga people,[6] a group of Yuin.

[10][11] Probably due to reasons such as finding a viable means of sustenance, most of the surviving Aborigines living in the goldfields around Braidwood, migrated toward the coast—also Walbanga country—in the later years of the 19th-century.

[18] The gold was patchy[17] and the field attracted hard-working Chinese miners who were prepared to persevere and work in teams, for a modest return on their labour and time.

[19] In a remarkable piece of work, Chinese miners constructed a water race, ten miles long, from the headwaters of Currawan Creek—in the catchment of the Clyde River—to carry water to sluice high ground in Broad Gully, on the right bank of the river downstream from the village.

[20] Extensive remnants of Chinese mining and sluicing works are still evident on Tantalean Creek.

The shortcut made by the river also created a landform known as 'Sydney Heads', which would become the site of a mining camp.

[39][40] By 1891, confusion with that other, relatively nearby Monga, was leading to mail being directed to the wrong place.

[43] The village became the centre for a number of smaller mining camps spread widely throughout the area.

[19] As a result of the Crown Lands Act of 1884, the boundaries of the village of Mongarlow were officially proclaimed on 29 July 1889,[38] although the settlement had been in existence for many years before then.

''[34] The Chinese temple (or 'joss house') and its burial ground stood on the left bank of the river, just downstream of the old ford.

It is now a private residence and one of the few remaining original public buildings in the village, the others being the old post office and schoolhouse.

[45][54] Another minor population boom occurred, during the Depression, when many returned to distill eucalyptus oil and search again for gold.

[56] There was a proposal for a 98 lot subdivision in proximity to the village which was cancelled in 2008 under pressure from concerned residents.