Hay
contributed by Rusty274, taken on 16 December 2009
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Famous " One Tree Hotel" at sunset 38kl from Hay
Take yourself back in time to the old Cobb & Co staging post of the One Tree Hotel made famous by Banjo Patterson's immortal poem, 'Hay and Hell and Booligal'. Built in 1862, the One Tree Hotel was named because of this lone large gum tree growing on a clay pan near a shallow fresh water well, about half a mile away. The hotel was a thriving business in the days until the licence was allowed to lapse in 1942.
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This picture was uploaded into the Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia entry for the City, Town or Village 'Hay'.