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The Glenburn and Burbong Historic Precinct in the Kowen Forest, Act: More Recent Information About Some of the Sites and the People THE GLENBURN AND BURBONG HISTORIC PRECINCT IN THE KOWEN FOREST, ACT: MORE RECENT INFORMATION ABOUT SOME OF THE SITES AND THE PEOPLE Colin McAlister, November 2013 My monograph, Twelve historic sites in the Glenburn and Burbong areas of the Kowen Forest, Australian Capital Territory, published by the Na6onal Parks Associa6on of the ACT in November 2007 needs some upda6ng and correc6ng. (The monograph is available on the NPA’s website www.npaact.org.au under Publica6ons, Out of Print Publica6ons.) Since 2008 The Parks and Conserva6on Service and the Friends of Glenburn have undertaken substan6al protec6on and conserva6on of some of the sites. These ac6ons are included in my July 2013 ‘Work in Progress’ ar6cle on the same website www.npaact.org.au under Our Friends, Friends of Glenburn. The purpose of this ar6cle is to set out recent informa6on that has come to light from various sources about the sites and the people associated with them and also to make some minor correc6ons to the material in my 2007 monograph. The page references are generally to my 2007 monograph. Ideally, I should prepare a second edi6on of my 2007 monograph. But I simply do not have the inclina6on or the stamina at present. So you will have to bear with me in dealing with essen6ally new informa6on and/or interpreta6ons about some of the sites and the people associated with them. Unfortunately, in some areas, I have raised ques6ons than I have not been able to answer. I suggest that you have a copy of my 2007 monograph close by when you read this ar6cle. NEW INFORMATION THE SITE OF THE KOWEN SCHOOL AND ITS FABRIC The Site There are no visible physical remains of the school buildings. Previous informa6on was that the charcoal kilns were built on the school site about 300 metres north-west of Glenburn Homestead. The remains of the charcoal kilns are on the eastern side of Charcoal Kiln Road, some 50 metres below the locked gate near the intersec6on with River Road. In September 2013, I was given a copy of an 1882 survey plan showing Por6ons 69 and 70, Parish of Amungula from the original subdivision of the area. The school was marked in the south-east corner of Por6on 70, close to the north-western boundary of Por6on 1 (see the map on page iv of my monograph). In November 2013, staff of The Office of the Surveyor-General plo]ed the loca6on of the school on some modern day maps. The posi6on of the school on the 1882 survey plan may have been ^1 indica6ve only so the precise loca6on of the school is difficult to determine. But it is quite clear that the school was in the vicinity of where the charcoal kilns were built during World War II, possibly just on the opposite side of Charcoal Kiln Road towards the large dead pine tree. The Fabric of the School The 1882 survey map of Por6ons 69 and 70 included the statement ‘Value of improvements £35 School House’. On the basis of this value, I think we can safely say that it was a pre]y modest structure. By way of comparison, Curleys Hut (a slab co]age of 5 rooms and a verandah) was valued at £120 a few years later (see below on page 4). At this stage, I do not have any addi6onal informa6on on the fabric of the school buildings to that which is included on pages 21 and 22 of my monograph. A]empts to track down the valuer’s descrip6on of the school house (when Por6ons 69 and 70 were resumed by the Commonwealth to form part of the ACT), have not been successful. Children, Teachers, Parents and Friends at Play Because of its proximity to the school, Glenburn homestead was a focal point for social events in the last few years of the school’s life (see column 2, page 20 of my monograph). Earlier, in 1895, a bachelors’ ball was held at Colliers homestead (see Column 1, page 32 of my monograph). I have found li]le other informa6on about community and school leisure ac6vi6es. But, on page 16 and 17 of this ar6cle, there is the transcript of a delighgul report of the Black Creek and Kowen Schools picnic held on Saturday 31 March 1906. It had a fun packed program of ac6vi6es for young and old and there were visitors from many centres in the district. It was a truly community day. Other early ‘ACT’ Schools Kowen School is one of the schools covered in a Centenary project of the 'Friends of Hall School Museum'. This project examines the sixteen li]le bush schools that were captured by proclama6on of the Capital Territory and opera6ng in 1913 when Canberra was named. Although Kowen School was on 'life support' at this stage, as a Subsidised school, it was s6ll opera6ng, and was s6ll an important element of the local community. The Hall School Museum has a large folder of material on the establishment, administra6on and closure of the Kowen school as well as several maps rela6ng to the school. (Other bush schools in the Kowen district included Thornhurst, Argyle and Brooks Camp railway schools, and Murryong.) In the decades around the turn of the century other bush schools served the sca]ered farming communi6es in the Naas Valley (Naas, Upper Naas), Paddy's River (Church Rock Valley, Gibraltar), The Majura Valley (Majura, Malcolm Vale) and the Ginninderra plains (Mulligan's Flat). Thirty such early bush schools of the Territory, and around 250 of their pioneer teachers, are now entered in a database on the Hall School Museum website: [h]p://museum.hall.act.au/ schools.html]. ^2 The Friends of Hall School Museum hope that interested viewers of the website will be able to contribute further informa6on about these schools. It would be wonderful, for example, if someone could come forward with a photo of the Kowen School and/or its students or of the Black Spring and Kowen Schools picnic. THE FABRIC OF CURLEYS HUT, WHEN WAS IT BUILT, WHO LIVED THERE AND WHEN The Friends of Glenburn cleared the site of Curleys hut of blackberries in 2013 aler they had been poisoned by the Parks Service. A large jumble of rocks and a couple of stone steps were uncovered. Li]le was known about the fabric of Curleys Hut or who, if anyone, lived in it on Por6on 44, Parish of Amungula, immediately to the west of Por6on 20. A copy of a tracing of a survey map of February 1881 and August 1884 of Por6ons 44, 45 and 75 to 80 is on page 18 of this ar6cle. It was believed that it was probably built by William Collier as an outlying structure to Colliers Homestead some6me between 1881 and 1884 (see column 1, page 33 of my monograph). In September 2013, new informa6on about the fabric of Curleys Hut and who lived there was uncovered at State Records NSW (Container 10/19597, Item 04 – 25105, Condi6onal Purchase Correspondence). Some addi6onal informa6on on the fabric of Curleys Hut was also uncovered at the Na6onal Archives of Australia ( NAA: Series A358, Control 205 and 364, Joseph KEEFE, 571 acres, Parish of Amungula, County of Murray). The fabric of Curleys Hut It turns out that ‘Curleys Hut’ was a substan6al 28lx28l (8.53mx8.53m) 5 room slab co]age with weatherboard gables, an iron roof, a wooden floor and a brick chimney. The co]age had an unfloored verandah 28lx5l (8.53mx1.52m) with an iron roof. A separate slab kitchen was half floored and had a bark roof. There was also an open sided shed that was partly roofed with iron. This was a substan6al group of buildings. It is difficult to imagine the co]age from the jumble of rocks that remain today. ^ Curleys Hut ruins in July 2013 aSer being liberated from blackberries. Note the 2 stone steps at the front of the ruins. Photo, Col McAlister. ^3 There is a small orchard of plums with many suckers to the south of the ruins. No men6on of an orchard was made in the Inspector of Condi6onal Purchases’ reports of April 1886 or May 1887. But both men6oned a garden and a paling fence valued at £10. When was Curleys Hut Built? Unfortunately, the informa6on at State Records did not say when the co]age was built on Por6on 44 of Condi6onal Purchase 82 - 172 of June 1882 (encompassing Por6ons 44, 45 and 75 totalling 162 acres). The loca6on of these Por6ons can be seen on the tracing of the survey map reproduced on page 18 of this ar6cle. The usual condi6ons a]aching to condi6onal purchases were that the purchase price was £1 per acre payable by a deposit of 25% and the balance with interest at 5%. The deposit on the 3 Por6ons would therefore have been £40 10/-. Improvements of £1 pound per acre had to be made and the purchaser had to reside on the land and occupy the land for 3 years. I think that we can reasonably believe that Collier built the co]age in 1882/83 to meet the Condi6onal Purchase condi6on in rela6on to residence. Who lived in Curleys Hut and When? Unfortunately, the only reports from the Inspector of Condi6onal Purchases that I found were dated April 1886 and May 1887. Both contained brief descrip6ons of the co]age and kitchen. Both reports also valued the co]age at £120 and the kitchen at £12, a total of £132.
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