Dalgety, New South Wales

Dalgety New South Wales
Main street of Dalgety and the Buckley's Crossing Hotel
Dalgety
Coordinates	36°30′0″S 148°50′0″E / 36.50000°S 148.83333°E / -36.50000; 148.83333Coordinates: 36°30′0″S 148°50′0″E / 36.50000°S 148.83333°E / -36.50000; 148.83333
Population	75 (?)
Established	1832
Postcode(s)	2628
Elevation	760 m (2,493 ft)
Location	51 km (32 mi) from Cooma 452 km (281 mi) from Sydney
LGA(s)	Snowy Monaro Regional Council
State electorate(s)	Monaro
Federal Division(s)	Eden-Monaro
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall 15 °C 59 °F -18 °C -0 °F 630 mm 24.8 in

Dalgety is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, on the banks of the Snowy River between Melbourne and Sydney.

The town is located at what was once an important river crossing along the Travelling from Gippsland to the Snowy Mountains High Country dating from the 1840s.

The first settlement was originally known as Buckley's Crossing after Edward Buckley who established a farm near the river crossing in 1832. It was renamed Barnes Crossing in 1848, by which time it had become an important waypoint on the stock route between Gippsland in Victoria and the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales. In 1874 the town was formally surveyed and named Dalgety after the maiden name of the wife of surveyor J. R. Campbell. Like the founder of Dalgety and Company she was a grandchild of a Colonel Alexander Dalgety.

At the time of the survey the population was 23 and it was recorded that a punt was operating across the river. A Catholic school opened in 1874 to cater for the children of Irish gold prospectors, and the first bridge over the river was constructed in 1888.

The town also became a meeting place between white settlers and local Aborigines, who would camp along the river bank on the way to the Snowy Mountains. The Thaua people and Ngarigo people lived in this area seasonally.