Dalgety, New South Wales

Dalgety is a small village in the southeast of the Australian state of New South Wales. It is located in the Snowy River Shire on the banks of the Snowy River. Dalgety was once earmarked as the site of the new capital before the election then fell to Canberra.

The name of the village was also the birth name of the wife of JR Campbell, the surveyors who measured the future settlement. In 1837 the area was first known as the Buckley's Crossing, after 1848, a Mr. Barnes had settled here, as Barnes Crossing. The present name of the village was built in 1880 published in the Official Journal.

Dalgety was once an important river crossing, about from the 1840s herds of cattle were driven to the mountain pastures of Gippsland in the Snowy Mountains. It was also a meeting place for the Aboriginal people of the Southeast, who gathered here to hunt in the mountains Bogong moths.

1904 recommended Charles Scrivener Dalgety as the capital site. The Australian parliament in Melbourne agreed. But the government of New South Wales fought against this decision and threatened to leave the Commonwealth of Australia, as Dalgety was too close to Melbourne. Subsequently, new locations were tested around Canberra.