Walcha history: Kentucky, NSW, settlement bears fruit

By Bob Walsh
Updated September 4 2018 - 11:47am, first published 11:29am
Simple shelter: An unfinished settler’s cottage for a married couple at Kentucky. Picture: NSW State Archives.
Simple shelter: An unfinished settler’s cottage for a married couple at Kentucky. Picture: NSW State Archives.

The soldier settlement program at Kentucky was of great interest to Walcha after attempts by the Apsley Shire Council and Lieut. R.H. Blomfield MC failed to gain government support for a major soldier settlement establishment at Yarrowitch.

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