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[post_date] => 2019-09-18 13:12:53
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[post_content] => An important part of Goulburn's early history, Garroorigang offers visitors the rare opportunity to take a guided tour through a lived in family home continuously occupied for 160 years with its original colonial and Victorian furnishings still in use today.
Guided by a family member, visitors are told the history and stories behind the homestead as well as its people and fascinating contents. Built in 1857, Garroorigang served briefly as a coaching Inn on the road to the goldfields. The huge iron handpump still stands over the well outside the stables and the bar, where Ben Hall and his gang once ate, drank and left without paying, now forms the homestead's magnificent Victorian drawing room.
In 1868 Harborne Belcher, an English educator, purchased Garroorigang as his family home. He converted part of the stables into a classroom for a private boarding school for the "sons of gentlemen" which he established on the property. Some 300 students, including test cricketer HH Massie, (General Sir) Harry Chauvel of the 5th Light Horse at Beersheba and Impressionist painter John Peter Russell, passed through its doors and into history. In the schoolroom, visitors can still savour life of schoolboys in the Victorian era and see records of their work, sport and mischief.
Now the private home of the Hume family, collateral descendants of Explorer Hamilton Hume, Garroorigang contains, in addition to its original colonial and Victorian furniture, a wealth of fascinating historical and family memorabilia including relics from the convict and bushranger eras, the early days of cricket and the family's role in the development of the fine wool industry.
Set in beautiful gardens, which include a 130 year old Fortuneana rose growing on the front of the Homestead, Garroorigang retains the warmth and aura of a family home, steeped in time, affording visitors a rare personal view of life over much of Australia's history.
Disabled access. Off street parking for coaches and private vehicles.
Admission:
Adults $20
Concession $15
Children 12yrs to 18yrs $5 (under 12 free)
Family with small children $25
Group of 10 or more $10 per person.
Proceeds of visits go to conservation of the home and its irreplaceable contents. Morning/Afternoon tea available for groups on request.
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