OPINION: Lee Steele takes a look at another historic district property

By Lee Steele
June 9 2017 - 6:00pm
SOUTHERN EXPOSURE: It is believed the name of Kentucky, Carcoar was inspired by a resident who was a colonel in the Confederate army.
SOUTHERN EXPOSURE: It is believed the name of Kentucky, Carcoar was inspired by a resident who was a colonel in the Confederate army.

NESTLED in a small valley near Mount Macquarie and beside the Belubula River lies the town of Carcoar, some 52 kilometres west of Bathurst. It was gazetted as a village on September 29, 1839, the third settlement on the western side of the Blue Mountains, after Bathurst in 1815, and Wellington in 1817. 

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