[4] The entire village is classified by the National Trust as the Central Tilba Conservation Area.

[citation needed] Until August 1990 the Princes Highway passed through Tilba when a bypass opened.

It is won with comparative facility, no blasting being required, and the expense of timbering being more than compensated by the ease and rapidity with which the driving [tunnelling] can be carried on and much of the gold extracted.

The soil is good, and some large dairies are being formed the land is being rapidly taken up, and doubtless in very few years the export which now consist principally of butter, cheese, and bacon, will be considerably increased.

[15] By 1896, there was a bridge across the Wallaga Lake linking Tilba to Bermagui to which the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company ran four services a week.

At that time the mail service ran every day except Sunday from Sydney by train to Tarago (east of Lake George), then by stagecoach via Braidwood, Araluen, and the Deua River valley to Moruya then Tilba and on to Bega.

It is quite impossible to convey in words any adequate idea of the wildly picturesque romantic beauty of this fertile little spot.

[23] The Moruya Examiner reported "The ABC Dairy Factory has settled down to its work...as proof of the popularity of which this brand has attained, we append an extract from the report of the manager of the South Coast & West Camden Co. ‘Cheese market improving…We received 45 [crates] of your cheese today, all sold…Can do with double quantity next boat.

"[24] 1894: In the financial year ending 6 March 1894, the factory processed 219,000 gallons (0.8 of a megalitre) of milk producing 228,000 (~100 tonnes) of cheese.

After deducting cost of manufacture, freight, commission, repairs and additions to plant, secretary's salary and sundry expenses, the suppliers received £2,114 8s.

Farmers received £300+ from the Co-op, aside from revenue from pigs, poultry, calves and other stock which was estimated to be worth £100 each year.

One farm on 230 acres (93 ha) with a herd of 60 cows had a turnover of £998 of which £700 was from milk, the balance from pigs and other produce.

The observer saw a long row of waiting waggonettes with their bright milk cans standing in the hot sun, the contents deteriorating all the time on account of the slowness of the weighing and receiving methods.

Foley Bros, the company's Sydney agents, said the ABC cheese was ‘always of excellent quality’.

[37] 1981: The Bega Dairy Cooperative announced that it would close the ABC factory with its five employees on 21 March.

[39] In December 1981, Geoff and Catherine Bryan announced they had bought the factory and it would re-open in February 1982.

The milk bottled and cheese made on site are from two local dairy farms, one in Tilba one in Cobargo.

Several times Mr Priddle, by then the owner, applied to the Moruya Licensing Court, for a Publican's licence for the premises.

[58] In 1924 it was bought by Mr Livingstone who it was rumoured was planning to move and extend the building to a frontage on what was now being called the Princes Highway.

[61] In 1934, the Licenses Reduction Board gave notice that the licence would be surrendered and that the hotel would cease trading on 1 July 1935.

[64] In August 1935, it was announced that the Hotel would be renovated, hot and cold water and a septic tank would be installed and the name changed to the Dromedary.