A Photographic Essay Source: Camden Images
Month: June 2015
Macquarie returns to the Cowpastures
Governor Macquarie returned for his third visit to the Cowpastures in 1820. Macquarie and his party set out from Parramatta Monday 16 October 1820 and journeyed through the Cowpasture in southern New South Wales. They returned to the Cowpasture on 3 November 1820. Read for yourself Governor Macquarie’s journal of the trip. Extracts from the… Continue reading Macquarie returns to the Cowpastures
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The Bicentenary of the 1815 visit by Governor Macquarie
Governor Macquarie made a second visit to the Cowpastures in 1815. It is 200 years since Governor Macquarie journeyed through the Cowpasture and 2015 is the bicentenary year visit to the local area. On Macquarie's 1815 journey to the Cowpasture he travelled with a group of colonial notables or gentlemen as he called them. Amongst those… Continue reading The Bicentenary of the 1815 visit by Governor Macquarie
