George Rowarth's Gulley under the Merriwa Road
GEORGE ROWARTH
Written by Neil Barwick
George Rowarth drew Farm 45 in the Warrah 1912 subdivision ballot. He farmed this block until he sold in 1954 to W (Bill) Daly.
George was a bachelor and a tall thin man.
Every Friday afternoon, he would harness up his horse and drive the sulky via Swinging Ridges Road to Ardglen to spend the weekend with family members, returning on the Monday morning to work on his Farm.
Just below
and running through his Farm on the Merriwa Road is a deep gully with a large water catchment area up the valley. This gully is still known by the ‘locals’ as “George Rowarth’s Gully” and probably has been for 100 years.
The cottage on the Farm was still being used into the 1960’s on a casual basis by the McCrae brothers while they were share-farming on Tom Cropper’s “Green Hills Station”, however is now in a state
of extreme disrepair.