On the intersection of the Henty, Culcairn and Holbrook roads can be seen the (rapidly deteriorating) ruins of the Squatter's Arms Inn which was built in 1848.

The Squatter's Arms Inn closed its doors to official trading in 1925 but then was briefly restored internally when it featured in the 1976 filming of Mad Dog Morgan, starring Dennis Hopper.

Six months later John Post, an ex-convict, took up the ‘Cookardinia’ run, adjoining ‘Buckaginga’ to the south.

John Post took advantage of the position by building a roadside inn to provide accommodation and other amenities for travellers.

In June 1863 the bushranger Dan Morgan and another man held up four young men "at Mr. Post’s station, Cookendina, near Albury".

The young men "were proceeding from Ten-mile Creek to attend some bye-races at Merritt’s Cookendina Inn".

As a result of the experience Edward Post (John Post's eldest son) was summoned to appear before the Albury Police Court and charged under the Publicans' Act with "not having proper accommodation" in the form of "two proper and well-supplied bedrooms" on the occasion of the visit by the "learned gentlemen".

[11][12] In 1868 a publican's license was granted to Elizabeth Stamp for the Squatters’ Arms Hotel at Cookardinia.