The Macarthur Bridge across the Nepean River at Camden NSW is an important engineering heritage item.
Category: Cowpastures
Traditional trades, the legacy of Camden’s carpenters
Carpentry, vital in Camden for centuries, began with Aboriginal bush carpentry using local materials for survival. European settlers adopted this craft, creating simple structures and relying on ingenuity. Formal carpentry evolved with guilds and apprenticeships, maintaining traditional techniques and tools, shaping Camden's architectural landscape with lasting quality.
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Macarthur FC: Symbolism, Regional History, and Nationalism
Macarthur FC, the newest A-League team, represents the Macarthur region in soccer. The club's identity is rooted in regional symbols and colors, including ochre to honor the local Dharawal Aboriginal people. Their use of the Macarthur name signifies the colonial and regional history. The club's presence is expected to shape Macarthur's identity and visibility nationally and internationally.
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Local Newspapers and a Regional Setting in New South Wales
UOW historian Dr Ian Willis has recently published an article in Media History (UK) about the role of local newspapers in the creation of Macarthur regional identity and the mythology surrounding New South Wales colonial identity John Macarthur.
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Camden Heritage Conservation Area – an English-style village in the Cowpastures
The Macarthur private village of Camden was located in the English style countryside of the Cowpastures countryside with its gentry estates and villages. Founded in 1840 it was all part the British imperial imperative and the settler colonial project that came with it.
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The Llewella Davies Memorial Walkway, a walk in the meadows of the past
The Camden Town Farm Miss Llewella Davies Pioneers Walkway opened in 2020 in the former colonial landscape of the Cowpastures. The area was part of the original grants that made up the Macarthur family's Camden Park Estate and in pre-European times the country of the Dharawal people.
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Charles Tompson, a colonial diarist of the Cowpastures
A colonial diarist of the Cowpastures, Charles Tompson.
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The Burragorang Valley, a lost Gothic fantasy
The Burragorang Valley is a lost Gothic fantasy where many people were attracted to the grandeur and beauty of the valley's landscape. Much of the valley's mystery has been lost under Lake Burragorang.
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The Rotolactor, a Menangle milking marvel
The Rotolactor was Menangle's milking marvel. A rotating dairy that was a tourism attraction and an example of industrial modernism on the colonial property Camden Park estate.
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Living history at a country festival
Living history was on display at a country show with the real sounds sights and smells of the farm
