John Hawdon of Elderslie in a settler society

February 12, 2016October 14, 2025 camdenhistorynotes11 Comments

John Hawdon of Elderslie was part of the story of settler colonialism in New South Wales in the early 19th century.

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Viewing the Cowpastures landscape

January 14, 2016August 16, 2023 camdenhistorynotes3 Comments

The early colonists of the Sydney area viewed the landscape from a number of different perspectives according to historian Grace Karskins in her book The Colony a History of Early Sydney (2009) and this also applied to the Cowpastures.

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Pictorial History of Camden and District

January 2, 2016December 18, 2017 camdenhistorynotes8 Comments

The history of the Camden District is told in a recent publication that has been recently been republished by Kingsclear Books. Pictorial History of Camden & District.

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The Perkins family album of Cawdor

August 13, 2015January 23, 2024 camdenhistorynotes1 Comment

Photographs tell a story about the local area and represent a moment frozen in time. The Perkins family donated a family photograph album to the Camden Historical Society and it tells the story of the Cawdor area..

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175th Anniversary of Camden’s foundation, 1840-2015

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A Photographic Essay Source: Camden Images

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Macquarie returns to the Cowpastures

June 14, 2015June 24, 2015 camdenhistorynotes2 Comments

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

June 1, 2015June 2, 2015 camdenhistorynotes2 Comments

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

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Governor Macquarie’s visit to the Cowpasture 1810

May 25, 2015July 7, 2023 camdenhistorynotes5 Comments

In November 1810, Governor Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824) and Mrs Elizabeth Macquarie visited the Cowpastures. On that occasion, the Governor and Elizabeth Macarthur met the Dharawal people.