John Rogan drove a wagon with his two eldest sons, John, 11 years and William, 8 Years. His wife, Mary Jane, and his other children travelled by Cobb & Co. coach. The track, In those days to Young went through Grabben Gullen, Wheeo, Walla Walla and Murringo.

John set up a Blacksmith business in Boorowa Street where the Royal Hotel would be later built. He is credited with the manufacture of the first single-furrow plough of iron with wooden handles in the Young district.

In  January 1874 Rogan leased ground from Kelly and Tout at the foot of Hospital Hill, opposite the Market Reserve, near where  Lynch and Lovell Streets meet.

Rogan formed a partnership with George Lancashire, in June 1875, and took over Phillip’s Burrangong Coach and Buggy Building Factory on the corner of Lynch and Boorowa Streets. After twelve months Rogan sold his share to Lancashire and continued to operate from his Lovell Street site.

With the arrival of the railway, Rogan had to move his shop, stables and dwelling further down Lovell Street. He later built a big brick building on the corner of Zouch and Boorowa Street.

These premises later became the ”Young Vulcanising Works” then the Ampol Service Station and now a Car Dealers yard. This building was later destroyed by fire.

The school buildings had to be moved to make way for the Railway Station, and John Rogan purchased it and erected it next to the one he had in McLerie Street.

The one already in McLerie Street was the old Court House he had moved from the corner of Lynch and Cloete Streets. These buildings still stand in McLerie Street and are of great historical significance.

Rogan specialised in sulkies and buggies but included blacksmithing, foundry, iron fabrications and verandah lace. To ensure that his two youngest sons had trades he opened a saddlery business opposite the Town Hall and employed three top tradesmen to teach his sons the trade.

This site was on the eastern side of where the large Millard store was later erected. Mr Rowan had a news agency here, and John Rogan gave him the use of a window and half the shop. This later became Payne’s newsagency and now the Town Hall Newsagency.

John Rogan was an Alderman on the Young Municipal Council from 1883 to1894 and Mayor from 1886 to 1887. John Rogan died in 1921 and his wife in 1920.

The lane between the shops in Main Street and the Hilltops Council car park behind the Town Hall has been named  Rogan Lane.

A Rogan Buggy is on display at the Lambing Flat Museum.