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Mid-morning on a busy (?) Friday in Dalton, N.S.W.

Dalton is a small inland country town on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Upper Lachlan Shire. Its claim to fame is that it is reputed to have the nation's highest rate of earthquakes and tremors.

The underlying rock strata of the region from Dalton to Lake George (40 km east) is geologically active, with the lake formed along a fault system running north-south. Water is believed by some to drain from Lake George and reappear in the Yass River, leading to speculation that the groundwater lubricates the geological activity along the faults.

Several amateur geologists in Dalton and the surrounding region have seismic recorders that automatically send data to Geosciences Australia.

A 5.5 magnitude Richter scale earthquake occurred on 1 January 1949 in the Dalton-Gunning region. It was felt in Canberra.

Dalton is north of the Hume Highway that joins Sydney and Melbourne, between Goulburn and Yass in southern New South Wales, 255 kilometres (158 mi) southwest of Sydney and 79 kilometres (49 mi) northwest of the national capital, Canberra. Nearby towns are Cullerin, Gundaroo, Gunning, Yass, and Murrumbateman.

The region is renowned for its sheep wool industry, notably for the Merino breed. The dry-land farming supports both summer and winter wheat, and some other cereal crops, but agriculture also extends to cattle production for meat.

Like many Australian towns, its economy and social life has fallen into some degree of lethargy, and this has begun to show. The wide streets are generally well maintained; it still has a viable hotel (pub) and several small shops and a petrol station, and the churches are maintained. However, there is a sense that the youth of the town leave for the bigger towns and cities, and that the vibrancy of Dalton's heyday of the early 20th century has gone.

There is a recent move to have bed and breakfast accommodation on farms to offer a "farm experience" to city dwellers.

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

An angel stands atop the grave of one of the Ryan family of Galong, in the south-western slopes of New South Wales, Australia. Edward 'Ned' Ryan was an emancipated convict who settled in the Galong area in the late 1820s, and carved out a large area of land and turned it into a replica of Clonoulty, his home county in Ireland. He grew prosperous, and gained a reputation for hospitality. He built a homestead and then a square castle-like structure beside it, called 'Galong Castle', and was himself referred to as the 'King of Galong'. A devout Irish Catholic, Ned Ryan established a cemetery for his family on the Galong property, which features many elaborate graves and statuary, some created by a well-known Goulburn sculptor, Rusconi.

Ned Ryan's son, John Nagle Ryan, willed his property to the Redemptorist Congregation who established St Clement's Monastery and Minor Seminary in 1918. By the time the seminary closed in 1975 it had educated some 2000 young men in the Catholic ministry. It is now a popular retreat and conference centre run by the Redemptorists and the Sisters of St Joseph, Goulburn, and continues to dispense good Australian country hospitality - and generous quantities of country-style food - to those who spend time there. 'Galong Castle', within the St Clement's complex, is now a museum that relates both to the story of the Ryan family and the site's history as a Catholic seminary.

References: Brochure, St Clement's Retreat & Conference Centre, Galong, NSW: History, Accommodation and Facilities, June 2009; brochure, Heritage and Environmental Restoration & Preservation of St Clement's, NSW Department of State and Regional Development, n.d.

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