Nearby wetlands are still called Doodle Cooma Swamp; they cover 20 square kilometres and are a breeding area for water birds.

Two kilometres west of the town on Pleasant Hills Rd (the Lockhart road) is a memorial stone near the site where Morgan shot Sergeant Thomas Smyth in September 1864.

A more recent plaque has been erected by the NSW Police Service and reads: "A memorial to Senior Sergeant Thomas Smyth, aged 29.

A member of the NSW Police Force shot by bushranger Dan Morgan in the surrounding hills on 4 September 1864.

Senior Sergeant Smyth gave his life while in the pursuit of Morgan who although a tourist attraction these days put fear in the people of the district in the 1860s.

Around 1868, many families of German extraction, following the Murray River, trekked from South Australia towards nearby Albury eventually settling in the Henty District.

In 1886, the Land Department authorised a survey of part of Doodle Cooma Station, changing the spelling from ‘Dudal Comer’.

In 1914, a local farmer named Headlie Taylor invented the header harvester which revolutionised the grain industry worldwide when it became commercially available in 1916.

One such worker is celebrated in the "Henty Man" tree, located on the Olympic Highway about 7 km south of the township.

Although the original has since been replaced, the local folklore is that a "swaggie" painted the words, "Henty 5mi" onto a stump that resembled a pointing man.

The comical figure was later crowned by a tin top hat made by a local Blacksmith, Charles Schlue.

[7] A rebuilt district hospital has opened in October 2004 and a retirement village was built in the town with approval for the project being given in late 2005.

The field days are now held at a permanent all-weather rural exhibition site with broad display avenues including a square kilometre (250 acres) of car parking however the on-site airstrip created in 1976[13] was later closed.

[14] The local railway station is served by the New South Wales XPT passenger service between Melbourne and Sydney.