Our History
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Historic Lansdowne Park established in 1825 is Goulburn's oldest
homestead and earliest farming complex. This was long before Robert
Hoddle produced plans for the new town of Goulburn. A travelling
medical man stayed at a scenically situated dwelling house called
"Lansdowne Park". Not long after, the Mulwaree Chain of Ponds which
stretches along below the hill where Lansdowne homestead stands, is
where Jonas Bradley's son, William, found a site on the lower level for
his Flour Mill and Brewery (now the Goulburn Brewery) and Malt House.
William Bradley married Emily Hovell, the daughter of one of the famous
explorers, William Hovell, of Hume and Hovell at Lansdowne Park in
1834. William Bradley introduced coarse wool sheep to Australia about
the same period. William Hovell died in 1875, 90 years of age and is
buried in Old St Saviours Cemetery Goulburn. |
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Lansdowne Park was the termination point of the Great South Road (now
Hume Highway), the last contact with civilisation for those waiting to
venture into the country which lay beyond. As settlement spread and the
South Road became more busy, the stables at Lansdowne were used by Cobb
& Co. These lovely old stables and coach house were fashioned from
random rubble stone quarried from the nearby hills. The gables on the
stables and coach house are embellished by the elaborately carved barge
boards of the gothic revival and the horse stalls are marked by posts
finished with carved capitals beneath an arcade of timber. Much of the
timber in the stables is cedar including the feed trough and beams. |
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