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Kentucky is a village in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. The village is situated about to the south of Uralla and to the north west of Walcha and approximately off the New England Highway. Kentucky is located by rail from Sydney in Sandon County on the Northern Tablelands. The village is at an altitude of about 1066 m and is within Uralla Shire. At the 2006 census, Kentucky and the surrounding area had a population of 311. ==History== On 25 May 1870 Alexander Binning Walker, a rural lock-up keeper, chased, confronted and killed the infamous bushranger Fred Ward, alias Captain Thunderbolt, at Kentucky Creek, Uralla. The Kentucky railway station, on the Main North Line, was opened on 2 August 1882. It was closed many years ago, though daily Sydney/Armidale trains still pass through the village. The area was a former soldier settlement region with many orchards and other agricultural properties. The development of the Kentucky Returned Soldiers Settlement along the railway between Kentucky and Wollun commenced in July 1918. This settlement covered , mostly of a light sandy granite type soil. The area was divided into eighty holdings of 40 to each depending on the location of the farm. The total orchard area which was planted with apples, pears, prunes, plums and cherries was .〔Back to Uralla Souvenir, 1925〕 The Kentucky Memorial Hall, in 2008, installed a memorial plaque at the Noalimba Avenue of Honour dedicated to the original soldier settlers and those servicemen and women from the district who enlisted in subsequent conflicts. About 4 km to the south of Kentucky is Kentucky South which was a rail siding that opened on 18 October 1926 and closed on 20 February 1975. Some of the old rail sheds remain there along with several houses. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kentucky, New South Wales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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