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European building in Australia. start a farm, along with a hut, The first recorded burial was of
Over the next 50 years, it grain for sowing, vital farming a child on 31 January 1790. One
developed into a substantial tools, two sows and prominent grave is that
home with many features of six hens. He success- of church man Samuel
a typical Australian homestead. fully planted and Marsden, who earned
Simply furnished to the period harvested a wheat the title of the “flog ging
of 1820–50, with reproductions crop with his wife parson” during his
of paintings and other posses- Elizabeth’s help. time as magistrate
sions, it is now a museum that She was the first general because of
strongly evokes the original female convict to be his harsh judgments.
inhabitants’ life and times. emancipated in New The merchant Robert
South Wales. In 1791, Medicine chest (c.1810), Campbell (see p68)
they were rewarded Experiment Farm and the father of
with a grant of 12 ha explorer William
(30 acres), the colony’s first Charles Wentworth (see p138),
land grant. Arthur Phillip, D’Arcy Wentworth, are also
governor of the day, called buried here.
it Experiment Farm.
In 1793, Ruse sold this farm
to surgeon John Harris for £40. g Old Government
The date of the cottage is not House
certain, but it is believed to be
The kitchen at Hambledon Cottage restored early 1830s. The woodwork is Parramatta Park (entry by Macquarie
to how it was in the first half of the 1800s Australian red cedar and the St gates), Parramatta. Tel 9635 8149.
 Parramatta. Open 10am–4:30pm
cottage is furnished accord ing
s Hambledon to an 1838 inventory. Tue–Fri, 10:30am–4pm Sat, Sun &
most public hols. Closed Good Fri,
Cottage 25 Dec. & 7 limited. 8
Cnr of Hassall St & Gregory Place, f St John’s ∑ nationaltrust.org.au/places/
Parramatta. Tel 9635 6924. Cemetery old-government-house
 Parramatta. Open 11am–4pm The central block of Old
Thu–Sun. Closed Good Fri, 25 & O’Connell St, Parramatta. Tel 9891
26 Dec. & 7 8 0700.  Parramatta. 7 Government House is the oldest
intact public building in Australia.
This delightful cottage, with its This walled cemetery – the oldest This elegant brick structure,
walls of rendered and painted European cemetery in Australia – plastered to resemble stone,
sandstock, was built in 1824 houses the graves of many was built by Governor Hunter
as the retirement home for convicts and settlers who arrived in 1799 on the site of a cottage
Penelope Lucas, governess to the on the First Fleet in 1788. The constructed in 1790 for Governor
Macarthur daughters. It is set in oldest grave that can be identi- Phillip. Wings to the side and rear
a park containing trees brought fied is the flat sandstone slab were added between 1812 and
to Australia from as early as simply inscribed, “H.E. Dodd 1791”. 1818. The Doric porch, added in
1817 by John Macarthur. Henry Edward Dodd, known to 1816, has been attributed to
Visitors can see rooms restored be Governor Phillip’s butler, was Francis Greenway (see p116).
to the period of 1820–50. the tenth person buried in the Australia’s finest collection
An 1830 Broadwood piano is cemetery, but the location of the of early 19th-century furniture
one of the furniture exhibits. other nine graves is unknown. is now housed inside.
The kitchen has walls of convict-
made bricks and contains
original appliances and utensils.
d Experiment
Farm Cottage
9 Ruse St, Parramatta. Tel 9635 5655.
 Harris Park. Open 10:30am–3:30pm
Wed–Sun. Closed Good Fri, 18–31 Dec.
& 7 8 (groups must book in
advance). ∑ nationaltrust.org.au/
places/experiment-farm-cottage
When his sentence expired in
1789, convict farmer James Ruse
was given 0.6 ha (1½ acres) of
land at Parramatta on which to The drawing room of Old Government House, Parramatta

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