About Baulkham Hills
Baulkham Hills, located approximately 29km North West of Sydney, is one of the largest suburbs in area and population within the Hills with a population of 33,661 people (Census 2001). Baulkham Hills as a suburb not including Bella Vista makes up about 24% of the total population (139,404) of the Baulkham Hills Shire. 23,282 people were born in Australia and 25,855 speak English only. 30,179 live in separated houses as opposed to other forms such as flats, units or townhouses. (Census 2001)
Baulkham Hills Town Centre includes Stockland Mall, The Bull 'n' Bush Hotel and a number of street shops.
Baulkham Hills is the home of Norwest Business Park which is rapidly becoming the main business centre within the Hills. Norwest Business Park includes retail, commercial, industrial and hotel developments. For example Norwest Marketown, Norwest International Hotel and the Hills Christian Life Centre.
Baulkham Hills is also the home to Baulkham Hills TAFE College and a number of private and public schools.
History of BAULKHAM HILLS
There are several versions of how this area between Castle Hill and Parramatta was named. The most likely reason is its resemblance to the county of Roxburgh, between Scotland and England, which shares a similar name, Buckholm Hills, the home of one of the area's early settlers. Andrew McDougall, who arrived in Sydney in 1798 from Roxburgh, was one of several settlers to receive grants in the area in 1799. He called his 150 acre grant Roxburgh Hall. The estate remained in the family until 1876 and Roxburgh Hall was built in 1860. Andrew McDougall was one of the trustees appointed when 3,000 acres were set aside as Baulkham Hills Common in 1804. The name has been officially recognised since 1802.
One of the earliest land grants in the area was the 30 acres given to George Best in 1796. He slowly gained more land until he had 185 acres.
The oldest farm-house in the area is Joyce Farmhouse in Valerie Crescent, near Seven Hills. It was built in 1804 by William Joyce, destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1806, and used as an inn between 1811 and 1826. Joyce had received his 30 acre grant in about 1794.
One of the oldest pioneer families in Parramatta came into this area when George Suttor received a grant of 186 acres in 1802 and advanced on the property, which he called Chelsea Farm, after his birthplace in London.
The address for Moraine Farm is 1233 W. Stroop Rd (Sutherly Newsbank). It was home to the late Col. Edward Andrew Deeds (Sutherly Newsbank). Edward Deeds was part of the aviation program during WW1. Moraine Farm is 100 years old (this year)(Sutherly Newsbank). The property is approximately eight acres large (Sutherly Newsbank). Moraine Farm was part of a great time of engineering and development and continues to be a great place with a great future still ahead.
Another reason they bought land was to give their children a better future so that he/she could do the same. The sons looked upon their father to inherit them with land, but how much can an average colonist afford if he had more than just one son. An example that Gross provides in his book is of a young man who looked upon his father to give him some land. That young man was Purchase Brown a seventeen year old boy, whose father Captain David brown “lived in a household crammed with thirteen people.”(Gross 83). Purchase had four younger brothers and Purchase could not “take over the family farm… before the youngest child came to age…” (Gross 84). This was a problem to all of Concords residents and as land became scarcer, men of Concord started looking west to the frontiers for more land. Another example that Gross describes in of the struggle of some residents of Concord, is a story of two couples named Lucy and Joseph Hosmer. They got married at a young age and Lucy lived her husband on “her in-laws land that was still owned by Joseph’s father.”(Gross 101). The couples worked hard to sustain a good family living. When the war approached in Concord Lucy Hosmer was scared that what if she loses her husband and he dies without “writing a will, then Lucy would struggle to make a living…”(Gross 103). Then Gross state how the
Over time Elizabeth Farm has been used for many different things from Private residences, farms, orchard, vineyard, boarding house and a glue factory. It is currently being used as a house museum, that has many benefits. It is one of the most accessible house...
family was they had three-rooms which were placed on a hill facing the "Big House". The
Henry moved to Lexington, Kentucky in November 1797. He quickly gained a reputation for his legal skills. His clients would pay him with land and horses. After awhile he owned a few town lots and the...
On July 4th 1796 the Connecticut Land Company sent out a search party to find new land. General Moses Cleaveland headed this search party, and on July 22nd of 1796 they found their new land, naming it Cleaveland after the leader of the search party.
The John Dickinson House, also called Poplar Hall, is open for the public to view at the John Dickinson Plantation located Kitts Hummock Road. In 1739, Samuel Dickinson started constructing the mansion that his son, John Dickinson, would spend most of his childhood. The mansion was just one of the many buildings that were located on the plantations. These plantations were large, agricultural money-makers run by slaves. Their major production was tobacco, wheat, and corn. Many people forget about Dickinson, underestimating how important his impact was to American history. Many scholars do not rank Dickinson with the principal Founders because he refused to sign the Declaration of Independence, which severely damaged his reputation forever. This plantation is important because it is the home of John Dickinson. This is the home that gave America John Dickerson, a vital part of our history as a politician, as a writer, and as a social influence.
In 1839 a man by the name of John Sutter arrived in California. Sutter appeared to be somewhat of a drifter, and had failed to establish himself before arriving in California. However, in the land of great promise, he planned to establish an empire for himself. Sutter was granted eleven square leagues, or 50, 000 acres, in the lower Sacramento area. This was a common land grant for the times. Sutter got to work and began to improve his land. He went on to build a fort, accumulated over 12,000 cattle and hired hundreds of workers to hel...
The next major land valuation work, Griffith’s Primary Valuation, was completed in Tyrone about 1860. In the twenty-six years between the two valuations, there were changes in the names of those living on the old farms. Some had emigrated; some had died. The McGuigans leasing the lands at that time were brothers, sons, daughters, nieces, and nephews. Only one Michael was left in Dromore. He was living in Shanmullagh Glebe.
The elder Sandburg, a blacksmith''s helper for the nearby Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, purchased the cottage in 1873. Carl, called "Charlie" by the family, was born the second of seven children. 1878. The. A year later the Sandburgs sold the small cottage in favor of a larger house. in the city of Galesburg.
At about this time, Bateman built his own country house, Lomberdale, at Middleton, where he continued to live with Mary Mason. The house incorporated many of the architectural fragments rescued from Bakewell Church and Bateman set up a museum there to hold his growing archaeological and ethnographic collection.
Thomas Jefferson became his own master builder on this land that he inherited from his father, Peter Jefferson. When his father died he left five thousand acres and more than twenty slaves to Thomas and his younger brother Randolph. The land would include the little 867 foot wooded mountain that would one day be called "Monticello." In 1767 Jefferson did the unheard thing to do in colonial America, he decided to build his dream home on the mountaintop. There were no highways or rivers on the land he built his home and people thought he was crazy and unpractical for doing this.
The Biltmore Estate is located in Asheville, North Carolina. It is the largest privately owned home in the United States. It was privately owned by George Washington Vanderbilt and his family. The house was designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Frederick Law Olmsted designed the landscape. The Biltmore Estate had a major role in the development of the creative architecture of the era and is well known for being America's largest home.
Salt, Sir Titus. Industrial Revolution: Saltaire Housing Development near Bradford. 1850. Photograph. England. ArtStor. Web. 3 Feb. 2010.
George McKeller was the very first person to settle in the land that is now Arcadia, as stated in A View of the Valley. Not many people are aware that George was the first settler of present day Arcadia. I...