Walcha Pioneer Cottage and Museum Complex
The Walcha Pioneer Cottage is operated by the Walcha and District Historical Society.
Opening Hours:
10.30am - 4.30pm Saturday & Sunday & Public Holidays (Excluding Christmas Day and Good Friday)
Or at other times by appointment - Please contact one of our members:
Kate Hoy - 6777 1323 or 0448 331 323
Bob Walsh - 6777 2318
Vic Galvin - 0428 772 144
The Walcha Pioneer Cottage and Museum Complex comprises a variety of historical buildings on the original land grant of 1858 to Constable Buckland including his house built in 1860s of slabs with a shingle roof. It's detached former kitchen building now holds a collection of early farming tools.
Another 1860s slab cottage brought to the site in 1970, is used as a general museum displaying a wide variety of local historal items.
In the ground is a stringy bark tree trunk (dendroglyph) carved by local aboriginies, brought to the site from the Brackendale area of the Walcha District.
The Wool industry hall(6), originally a School of Arts erected at Glen Morrison in 1887, illustrates the principal industry of Walcha, with a large collection of shearing equipment and photographs.
Two Machinery Sheds house horse drawn vehicles and early agricultural Machinery.
The reconstructed Blacksmiths Shop displays a forge, bellows and many original artifacts of the age-old occupation, with Walcha once being the home to four blacksmiths shops.
The Plane Hanger houses the Tiger Moth Aeroplane used in 1950 to spread superphosphate for the first time in Australia, on the local property "Mirani", then owned by AS Nivision.
