On your left is the lookout. Yes indeed, and Yarralumla House is the most important of them. Once the most palatial homestead in the region, it is now the residence of the Governor General of Australia.
The superb gardens — opened to visitors during spring — include a massive deodar cedar tree that probably dates from this time. His brother established a nearby property called Woden.
Both Yarralumla and Woden homesteads still stand, and have suburban districts named after them. Yarralumla and Duntroon were the two great pastoral properties of the Molonglo valley, and both were brought to their peak under the ownership of the Campbell family.
Frederick Campbell, a grandson of Robert Campbell, bought Yarralumla in He extended the holding to 39, acres, shearing as many as 40, sheep, and built one of the finest pastoral properties in NSW. Trees were ringbarked, swamps drained, and when introduced rabbits arrived in plague proportions, Campbell enclosed the whole property in rabbit-proof fences. The old homestead was gradually rebuilt with a three storey wing added in Further additions in brick included a library and billiard room in Turn to the second lookout for a reminder that this was once a pastoral station.
Gaze over Yarralumla Creek to the Yarralumla Woolshed. The station complex included many service buildings, outstations and brick and slab cottages for the workers. As many as red and yellow boxwood posts were cut in the area now known as Weston Creek and were used in the construction as well as galvanised iron.
There are still signs of rural landuse in this view, with agisted horses grazing near the shearing shed. The willows along the creek are another indication of early rural practices. They are picturesque, but introduced willows have damaged the stream ecology. Once the most palatial homestead in the region, Yarralumla House is now the official residence of the Governor General of Australia in the National Capital.
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