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Home   >>    Ooty Travel Guide   >>    History of Ooty

History of Ooty

This fascinating hill station of Ooty has a glorious history. Ooty is the short form for its original name ottakkalmandu the meaning of which can be translated from Tamil as the village built of a single stone. The current official name is udagamandalam. The history of Ooty reveals that this beautiful place was discovered by the British in the year 1819 by the then collector of Coimbatore John Sullivan. This was as a result of a project wherein he was asked to construct a bridle path uphill Sirumugai to Kotagiri. According to the history of Ooty, the place was originally under the control of the tribals called Todas.

Ever since its discovery, it has been a favorite holiday destination for the British and for the others. Huge tea plantations and factories came to be established here and the hill is covered with greenery. Ooty is part of a group of mountains called the Nilgiris or the Blue Mountains and is the capital of the district of the Nilgiris. The metalled ghat road from Kallar to Conoor which connects Chennai to ooty was mainly constructed by Colonel G.V. Law in 1871. It was later extended to Ooty. The road is still named after Law. The British realized he natural charm of the hill station and treated this place with a lot of affection. It was their favorite destination for leisure and holiday.

According to the history of Ooty, the place was part of Coimbatore district for many years and under the Malabar district for a few years. However it later attained its independent status. It has been a popular hill station for many decades and continues to be so. However a lot of construction work has taken away some of its charm, though there is some sort of control exercised by the authorities recently.
 
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