In 1914 Eileen and Dora Day purchased a small private day school and relocated it to 105 Best Street as the Wagga Wagga Grammar School. The School closed in 1946.

RAAF Base Wagga has been an integral part of the Wagga Wagga community since 1940.

The Beyer-Garratt 6029 entered service in 1954 and in 1959 the was converted to dual control. It was withdrawn in September 1972 and condemned on 4 January 1973. In 1974 the National Museum of Australia acquired the locomotive and placed it in the custody of the Canberra Rail Museum.

The Town Hall Gardens, situated on the lagoon between Baylis and Tarcutta streets, were chosen as the site for the town’s first bandstand, known as the Victoria Pavilion in 1897.

In 1968 Great Southern Motors were located on the corner of Baylis and Morrow Streets in Wagga. Amongst other things they were local Ford motor car dealers.

Fifty years ago former Olympian, Commonwealth Games medallist and the first Australian to swim the English Channel Linda McGill opened new $25,000 extensions, including a sauna bath and gymnasium at the Wagga Leagues Club.

The Wagga Leagues Club was a very important part of Wagga’s social scene 50 years ago.

More than 8,000 people in the Wagga Civic Centre Gardens saw Miss Annette McNamara, a 19 year old program secretary at the Wagga television station RVN-2 crowned Miss Wagga 1968.

The first Children’s Ward at the Wagga District Hospital was completed in 1922 after a fund-raising campaign was begun in 1919. 

The Dunlop Factory at the corner of Murray and Forsyth Streets opened in Wagga in 1943 during World War II.  Originally it was used as a munitions factory, making fuses for the military but it later made military uniforms.