Category: Cowpastures

Beulah and Sydney’s Urban Sprawl
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Beulah and Sydney’s Urban Sprawl

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Beulah estate, Sydney's urban sprawl and the Appin Road

Elderslie, a suburb on Sydney’s fringe
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Elderslie, a suburb on Sydney’s fringe

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A history of continuity and change Elderslie is a suburb of Camden, the traditional land of the Dharawal people.  It lies on the southern end of the Camden Municipality, 62 km southwest of Sydney, on the rural-urban fringe. Elderslie borders the Nepean River to the west, Narellan Creek to the north, Camden By-Pass to the… Continue reading Elderslie, a suburb on Sydney’s fringe

Governor Macquarie tours Cow Pastures and Illawarra 1822
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Governor Macquarie tours Cow Pastures and Illawarra 1822

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Governor Macquarie (SLNSW) Lachlan Macquarie on tour Governor Lachlan Macquarie, accompanied by Mrs Macquarie,  made his final visit to the Cowpastures and the Campbelltown area in January 1822. He inspected the area around Cawdor, Camden Park, Brownlow Hill, and Macquarie Grove. Macquarie also descended into the Illawarra and travelled through the area around Tom Thumb… Continue reading Governor Macquarie tours Cow Pastures and Illawarra 1822

John Hawdon of Elderslie in a settler society
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John Hawdon of Elderslie in a settler society

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

Viewing the Cowpastures landscape
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Viewing the Cowpastures landscape

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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.

Pictorial History of Camden and District
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Pictorial History of Camden and District

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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.

The Perkins family album of Cawdor
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The Perkins family album of Cawdor

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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..

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

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A Photographic Essay                              Source: Camden Images

Macquarie returns to the Cowpastures
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Macquarie returns to the Cowpastures

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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

The Bicentenary of the 1815 visit by Governor Macquarie
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The Bicentenary of the 1815 visit by Governor Macquarie

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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