YETMAN
Yetman is a small town encounted when
traveling the Bruxner Hgy. Yetman is a very small, but that said has
most essential services. Yetman services a large rural catchment that
is mostly NSW.
The Yetman
Station was established in 1837 by the Dights who followed Allan
Cunningham's trail to the north.
The first hotel
license
was issued in 1866 at about same time as the first store was built.
The first public school was established in 1867 and Yetman Post Office
opened on 1 September 1867. In applying for a post office the
applicants claimed that the population was then about 100 but this was
considered a considerable exaggeration. The first police station was
built in 1874.
St Andrews
Church was built in the 1870s for use by both Presbyterian and
Anglican congregations. 
The town has
always been associated with beef cattle and horses, with the sheep,
wool and timber industries developing only slightly later. The thick
rabbit and prickly-pear-ridden scrub of the brigalow and belah country
was reclaimed from expiring leases in the 1920s and the back-breaking
work of rendering it fit for agriculture did not bear fruit until the
1950s when wheat-growing became and remains a highly successful
enterprise. Some crops are also grown on the fecund black soils of the
river flats. 
The Yetman War
Memorial
and Garden
are located with the Memorial Hall.
Yetman is
located on the Macintyre River that from time to time can be in flood.
Mostly though the river is nearly almost dry. The Macintyre River
  
Eventually flows
into the Barwon River near Walgett.
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