Dalgety Down The Range Size:L A weatherboard farmhouse stands in

A weatherboard farmhouse stands in open pasture

left behind when the last resident walked out in September 2006

layered in years of graffiti

Bare trees line the hillside behind

ground broken in 1880 and first occupied in 1884

Dalgety Down The Range Size:L A weatherboard farmhouse stands inA dusty road winds down through the high country toward the remote settlement of Dalgety, the Snowy River valley opening out below. The Monaro tableland spread across some 16,000 km of southern New South Wales, and Dalgety sat at its edge, surveyed in 1874 and once evaluated as a potential site for Australia's national capital. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.