Warne - Dog Netting Fence Monument
Located about 5km south of Culgoa on the Calder Highway is a cairn which commemorates the construction of the dog-netting fence which crossed the highway at this point. Part of the fence is included with the memorial.
The fence, which stretched approximately 325 kilometres from Tyntynder on the Murray River to the South Australian border, was constructed in 1885 to stop the spread of rabbits to the north and wild dogs and other vermin entering farm lands to the south. The 36th parallel was selected for the location of the fence because it marked a weather line - supposedly it was meant to rain more on the south side of the fence.
The fence was six feet high with rabbit mesh at the bottom buried into the ground. Above the mesh was larger mesh and at the top there were strands of barbed wire.
Location
Cnr Calder Highway and Dog Netting Road, Warne 3530 Map
