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November 2018 marked 225 years since the Macarthur family moved to Elizabeth Farm near Parramatta. Today the house stands as Australia's oldest surviving homestead. Expanded over four decades, it still retains at its core much of the original 1793 structure.

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Birthplace of Australia's wool industry, Elizabeth Farm was built in 1793 is one of the county's oldest homes. The stunning gardens provide a charming outdoor setting for cocktail parties, lunches and dinners under a marquee. Behind-the-scenes curator-led tour of Elizabeth Farm available by prior arrangement. Free on street parking.

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Forest Lawn is the burial place of celebrities such as Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Nat King Cole, Clark Gable, Michael Jackson, Will Rogers and Elizabeth Taylor, just to name a few. A park employee keeps watch over flowers placed outside the mausoeum of pop music superstar Michael Jackson, June 25, 2014 at Forest Lawn on the fifth.

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Elizabeth Farm is a classic single-story colonial farmhouse, huddled under a low shady roof, almost hidden inside a dense, rambling garden. Surrounded today by modern suburbia on the outskirts of busy Parramatta, the farm originally covered 600 acres of scrub, pastures, orchards and prime riverfront land.

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A lost garden After 150 years of subdivision and development very little remains of the 40-hectare (1000-acre) estate that surrounded Elizabeth Farm, where the Macarthurs relocated in 1793.

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Open: Friday & Saturday, 10am to 4pm During NSW school holidays Elizabeth Farm will be open 7 days. Tuesday 2 nd - Sunday 28 th January inclusive Closed on Good Friday and Christmas Day Ticket prices: FREE Entry for all visitors Not a Member? Enjoy exclusive experiences and events, 20% off public programs plus 10% off at our shops and cafes.

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The historic Elizabeth Farm is located in the heart of Parramatta and open for history buffs to explore. Ria Lawrence - Staff Writer • August 10, 2023 Image: At Parramatta In a city filled with world-famous structures and natural beauty, Western Sydney tends to stay a little under the radar.

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Address 70 Alice St Rosehill, NSW Opening Hours Wed - Sun: 10am - 4pm Tea Room Sat - Sun: 10am - 4pm Closed Good Friday & Christmas Day Phone Number (02) 9635 9488 Email Address No Email Available

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Romanticised painting of Elizabeth Farm viewed from the northern riverbank of Parramatta River. Joseph Lycett based this on sketches and his memories and painted it on his return to England. Elizabeth and John Macarthur arrived in 1790 with the Second Fleet. They brought contemporary ideas that formed the basis of their house and garden.

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A peripatetic saviour. Before he bought Elizabeth Farm in 1903, Yorkshireman William Swann had lived a nomadic life, mining copper in South Australia, working his way to Sydney on a coastal steamer and toiling in the goldfields of central NSW. In 1870 he met and married Elizabeth Devlin, with the first of their many children arriving soon after.

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Elizabeth Farm was home to wool pioneers, John and Elizabeth Macarthur and is considered the birthplace of the Australian wool industry. It was commenced in 1793 and originally overlooked a farm of nearly 1000 acres stretching from Parramatta Road to the Parramatta River. The house has undergone many changes over time with extensive renovations enveloping […]

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Elizabeth Farm in Parramatta, 22km west of Sydney city centre, is the oldest house in Australia. Built in 1793, Elizabeth Farm was the first property in New South Wales protected by a permanent conservation order. Elizabeth Farm is the oldest building in Sydney. It's the former home of John Macarthur.

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Australia & Pacific Sydney Elizabeth Farm contains part of Australia's oldest surviving colonial building (1793), built by renegade pastoralist and rum trader John Macarthur.

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Built in 1793 for the young military couple John and Elizabeth Macarthur and their growing family, Elizabeth Farm today is an 'access all areas' museum.

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Colonial Life at Elizabeth Farm About the program As they explore the Macarthur family home, which dates from 1793, students learn about the lives of the family and their convict servants and the impact of colonisation on the traditional owners of the Parramatta area.

Elizabeth Farm near Parramatta was the 1793 Colonial home of John and Elizabeth

This Sunday we're celebrating Parramatta and Elizabeth Farm's indigenous history with the Eel Festival. There'll be talks, a Darug language workshop, and for the adventurous, Jacqui will be making one of her signature dishes - collared eel in the colonial kitchen - while Fred's Bush Tucker will be showing you how to cook eel in.