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A SELF-GUIDED TOUR SELF-GUIDED A

THROUGH THE VALLEY THE THROUGH

Stone Ruin, Mugga Lane Mugga Ruin, Stone 15.

Hill Station Hill 14.

Rose Cottage Rose 13.

Tuggeranong Homestead Tuggeranong 12.

Farrer Ridge Ridge Farrer 11.

Mount Taylor Mount 10.

Aboriginal scarred trees trees scarred Aboriginal 9.

rmiHls Hills Urambi 8.

Tuggeranong Boundary Wall Wall Boundary Tuggeranong 7.

Lake Tuggeranong Tuggeranong Lake 6.

TUGGERANONG

Aboriginal Axe Grinding Grooves Grinding Axe Aboriginal 5.

Tuggeranong Schoolhouse Schoolhouse Tuggeranong 4.

ardHatCuc Church Heart Sacred 3.

A heritage tour of tour heritage A

ieIln oKma ol Pool Kambah to Island Pine 2.

1. 1. on u oPn sad Island Pine to Hut Point

TUGGERANONG [2] TUGGERANONG

LISTED PLACES IN IN PLACES LISTED

1. 3. SACRED 5. POINT HUT ABORIGINAL TO PINE ISLAND HEART CHURCH AXE Access is from to GRINDING Woolcock Drive then Point Hut Road. (1902) Start your walk at the Point Hut picnic GROOVES Tuggeranong is the area. It is a short, easy and pleasant Casey Crescent, Calwell. (THEODORE, southernmost valley of walk through grasslands along the east ) . It has an Aboriginal bank of the river for approximately This small church 4. Access is off Christmas history dating back at least 3km to . is a reminder of the TUGGERANONG twenty thousand years. European early Irish Catholic Street, Theodore. Look for the Tuggeranong Hill connections to the area go back This area was se led by Europeans communities in the SCHOOL Nature Park sign and walk nearly 200 years with the fi rst in the early 1830s and much of the Tuggeranong Valley. HOUSE (1880) towards the two eucalypt vegetation was cleared away to It was built in 1902 pastoral settlements in the early 1800s. trees that can be seen make open grazing lands. Before by voluntary labour Enid Lorimer Circuit, and fi nanced by the Chisholm. Privately further up the slope. CORRIDOR European se lement the river corridor was an important focal local Catholics on land occupied but available for There are several ways to get to the The grinding grooves point for Aboriginal people and leased at a nominal viewing by appointment. Murrumbidgee River. You can start your are located on an area many of their former campsites rent of a shilling per Call 6207 5489. explorations at Tharwa, Point Hut Crossing of exposed fl at rock, have been located by archaeologists year. It is a Federation from Tharwa Drive, Pine Island behind up-slope from the on the higher land overlooking Carpenter Gothic style Today, the Tuggeranong the , or at two eucalypt trees. the river. In 1986, a program of church with weather Schoolhouse is enclosed Kambah Pool from Namatjira Drive. Aboriginal people used intensive revegetation saw 50,000 board walls and within the suburb of There are excellent walking brochures this area extensively for trees planted in the area. corrugated iron roof. Chisholm, but when it produced by the ACT Government The church became was built in 1880 it was grinding stones into available at tourist outlets. the heart of social and surrounded by the open sharp edges for use as axes. There are some 50 2. religious life for the grazing lands in the The Murrumbidgee River has its head Catholic community Tuggeranong Valley. It shallow grooves worn waters in Kosciuszko National Park and PINE ISLAND of the area who would was the third school in into the surface of the fl ows 1,600 km to its junction with the TO KAMBAH POOL meet there weekly the area, the fi rst two built exposed sandstone rock extending over several Murray River near Balranald in New for Sunday mass, in 1870 and 1878. This Access to Pine Island is from Athllon metres. Axe grinding South Wales. The river corridor in the sometimes coming existing school building Drive then to Pine Island Road behind requires water as a Tuggeranong Valley offers a wide and great distances by was constructed of bricks the Tuggeranong Town Centre. Access horseback to share lubricant and grinding varied experience to everyone. You and originally had a to Kambah Pool is from Namatjira worship. It is the shingle roof. The children grooves are usually found can visit it in the hot summers to dip Drive then to Kambah Pool Road. oldest Catholic church of the Tuggeranong valley near a readily accessible your toes into the cool waters, take still functioning in the farming community were water source. In this case a picnic lunch and lie in the shade Pine Island and Kambah Pool are Australian Capital taught the “three Rs” in it was the Tuggeranong of a gum tree. In all seasons you approximately 8 km apart, following Territory (ACT). Due this building until 1940 Creek which fl ows below can walk along its banks the trail by the river. The walking to a road realignment when falling enrolments the site on the other side following the walking trails is easy to moderate. Halfway in 1985 when the forced its closure. One of the . and observe its natural between the two is the Red Rocks southern suburbs of of its most successful The stones used to beauty and wildlife. Gorge area. Many walkers reach Tuggeranong were students was Professor make the axes were also this point between Pine Island and expanding, the church James McGee, son of selected from the creek Kambah Pool then return to their was moved 100 metres the school teacher, who bed and brought up to starting point. The gorge is marked to the north and is became a prominent the site for sharpening. by brown, grey, and red sediment now the centre piece nuclear physicist and layers caused by the oxidisation of the St Francis of a pioneer in the (rusting) of the iron rich rocks. Assisi Parish Centre development of and School. television in Australia.

1 1 d d n i . ] 2 2].indd g n o n a r e g g u t [ [tuggeranong 6 0 0 2 - 0 1 - T N NT-10-2006 M A AM 0 4 : 4 3 : 2 2:34:40 6 0 / 0 1 / 5 2 25/10/06

• • Rose Cottage Rose (design) Brainstorm Studio • (research) Dowling Peter Dr

The publishers wish to acknowledge: to wish publishers The • • Point Hut Crossing Hut Point

• • Sacred Heart Church Heart Sacred

www.act.nationaltrust.org.au

02 6230 0533 6230 02

Civic Square ACT 2608 ACT Square Civic

PO Box 1144 Box PO

Contact: National Trust of Australia (ACT) Australia of Trust National Contact:

© Copyright 2007 ACT Government ACT 2007 Copyright ©

with the assistance of the ACT Government. ACT the of assistance the with

National Trust of Australia (ACT) Australia of Trust National

This tour has been developed by the the by developed been has tour This

A SELF-GUIDED TOUR SELF-GUIDED A

THROUGH THE VALLEY THE THROUGH

Stone Ruin, Mugga Lane Mugga Ruin, Stone 15.

Hill Station Hill 14.

Rose Cottage Rose 13.

Tuggeranong Homestead Tuggeranong 12.

Farrer Ridge Ridge Farrer 11.

Mount Taylor Mount 10.

Aboriginal scarred trees trees scarred Aboriginal 9.

rmiHls Hills Urambi 8.

Tuggeranong Boundary Wall Wall Boundary Tuggeranong 7.

Lake Tuggeranong Tuggeranong Lake 6.

TUGGERANONG

Aboriginal Axe Grinding Grooves Grinding Axe Aboriginal 5.

Tuggeranong Schoolhouse Schoolhouse Tuggeranong 4.

ardHatCuc Church Heart Sacred 3.

A heritage tour of tour heritage A

ieIln oKma ol Pool Kambah to Island Pine 2.

on u oPn sad Island Pine to Hut Point 1.

TUGGERANONG [2] TUGGERANONG

LISTED PLACES IN IN PLACES LISTED

1. 3. SACRED 5. POINT HUT ABORIGINAL TO PINE ISLAND HEART CHURCH AXE Access is from Tharwa Drive to GRINDING Woolcock Drive then Point Hut Road. (1902) Start your walk at the Point Hut picnic GROOVES Tuggeranong is the area. It is a short, easy and pleasant Casey Crescent, Calwell. (THEODORE, southernmost valley of walk through grasslands along the east TUGGERANONG HILL) Canberra. It has an Aboriginal bank of the river for approximately This small church 4. Access is off Christmas history dating back at least 3km to Pine Island Reserve. is a reminder of the TUGGERANONG twenty thousand years. European early Irish Catholic Street, Theodore. Look for the Tuggeranong Hill connections to the area go back This area was se led by Europeans communities in the SCHOOL Nature Park sign and walk nearly 200 years with the fi rst in the early 1830s and much of the Tuggeranong Valley. HOUSE (1880) towards the two eucalypt vegetation was cleared away to It was built in 1902 pastoral settlements in the early 1800s. trees that can be seen make open grazing lands. Before by voluntary labour Enid Lorimer Circuit, and fi nanced by the Chisholm. Privately further up the slope. MURRUMBIDGEE RIVER CORRIDOR European se lement the river corridor was an important focal local Catholics on land occupied but available for There are several ways to get to the The grinding grooves point for Aboriginal people and leased at a nominal viewing by appointment. Murrumbidgee River. You can start your are located on an area many of their former campsites rent of a shilling per Call 6207 5489. explorations at Tharwa, Point Hut Crossing of exposed fl at rock, have been located by archaeologists year. It is a Federation from Tharwa Drive, Pine Island behind up-slope from the on the higher land overlooking Carpenter Gothic style Today, the Tuggeranong the Tuggeranong Town Centre, or at two eucalypt trees. the river. In 1986, a program of church with weather Schoolhouse is enclosed Kambah Pool from Namatjira Drive. Aboriginal people used intensive revegetation saw 50,000 board walls and within the suburb of There are excellent walking brochures this area extensively for trees planted in the area. corrugated iron roof. Chisholm, but when it produced by the ACT Government The church became was built in 1880 it was grinding stones into available at tourist outlets. the heart of social and surrounded by the open sharp edges for use as axes. There are some 50 2. religious life for the grazing lands in the The Murrumbidgee River has its head Catholic community Tuggeranong Valley. It shallow grooves worn waters in Kosciuszko National Park and PINE ISLAND of the area who would was the third school in into the surface of the fl ows 1,600 km to its junction with the TO KAMBAH POOL meet there weekly the area, the fi rst two built exposed sandstone rock extending over several Murray River near Balranald in New for Sunday mass, in 1870 and 1878. This Access to Pine Island is from Athllon metres. Axe grinding South Wales. The river corridor in the sometimes coming existing school building Drive then to Pine Island Road behind requires water as a Tuggeranong Valley offers a wide and great distances by was constructed of bricks the Tuggeranong Town Centre. Access horseback to share lubricant and grinding varied experience to everyone. You and originally had a to Kambah Pool is from Namatjira worship. It is the shingle roof. The children grooves are usually found can visit it in the hot summers to dip Drive then to Kambah Pool Road. oldest Catholic church of the Tuggeranong valley near a readily accessible your toes into the cool waters, take still functioning in the farming community were water source. In this case a picnic lunch and lie in the shade Pine Island and Kambah Pool are Australian Capital taught the “three Rs” in it was the Tuggeranong of a gum tree. In all seasons you approximately 8 km apart, following Territory (ACT). Due this building until 1940 Creek which fl ows below can walk along its banks the trail by the river. The walking to a road realignment when falling enrolments the site on the other side following the walking trails is easy to moderate. Halfway in 1985 when the forced its closure. One of the Monaro Highway. and observe its natural between the two is the Red Rocks southern suburbs of of its most successful The stones used to beauty and wildlife. Gorge area. Many walkers reach Tuggeranong were students was Professor make the axes were also this point between Pine Island and expanding, the church James McGee, son of selected from the creek Kambah Pool then return to their was moved 100 metres the school teacher, who bed and brought up to starting point. The gorge is marked to the north and is became a prominent the site for sharpening. by brown, grey, and red sediment now the centre piece nuclear physicist and layers caused by the oxidisation of the St Francis of a pioneer in the (rusting) of the iron rich rocks. Assisi Parish Centre development of and School. television in Australia. 6.

LAKE 12. TUGGERANONG TUGGERANONG Access from HOMESTEAD Athllon Drive and . (c.1837) Corner of Ashley Drive and 14. Lake Tuggeranong Johnson Drive, Richardson. was formed in the Access is restricted but the HILL 1980s by damming 10 property is open to the STATION the Tuggeranong public on special occasions. Creek at Athllon 15 Located in Sheppard Street Drive. The creek Tuggeranong Homestead in the Hume Industrial originally fl owed 11 is a group of buildings Estate. Look for the signs 9 across the marshy that date from 1837. The along the Monaro Highway. area of Isabella buildings include the 14 Plain and into the 9 main homestead, As you drive in through Murrumbidgee 8 shearing shed and yards, the front entrance you River. It is now a machinery shed, barn, will see a large homestead feature of the stables, a number of other and a small hut to the Tuggeranong Town buildings and remnant side. The single-room hut Centre. Sealed 6 13 was erected around 1862 7 structures associated with cycle-ways enable 10. the running of a large and later additions have you to walk or cycle MOUNT sheep and ca le property. included a second room, around the perimeter TAYLOR The Tuggeranong Valley window frames and a of the lake. On the was se led by Europeans fl oor of bricks made at the western side of the 2 4 There are several walking in 1825 and Tuggeranong Yarralumla Brickworks. lake is Tuggeranong trails. The easiest trails to Station became one of Town Park which 12 locate originate along the largest properties. It The main homestead was off ers a picturesque, 3 Sulwood Drive and Athllon went through several built in 1910. Hill Station grassy picnic spot with Drive near the Sulwood Drive development phases and was part of the larger playground facilities by junction. You can reach the a number of owners Woden Station holdings. the edge of the water. 5 summit using these trails until it was resumed Three members of but the Athllon Drive access by the Commonwealth parliament have been trail allows you to drive part in 1916 and divided up associated with Hill the way up the mountain under soldier se lement Station. The fi rst was 1 7. to a carpark. schemes in the 1920s. Dr James Fitzgerald TUGGERANONG One prominent resident Murray who was Mount Taylor marks of the homestead was appointed to the NSW BOUNDARY the northern edge of the Dr C Bean (1916–26). Legislative Council in WALL Tuggeranong Valley. It is Dr Bean and his staff 1856, the second was 9. a demanding climb to occupied the homestead Sir Henry Gulle and Best seen from Athllon the summit, but when while writing the offi cial the third was Drive opposite Anketell ABORIGINAL SCARRED TREES it is reached there is an history of the First World Sir David Fairbairn. Street Junction. Access can extensive view of the War. Dr Bean also played Both the la er were be granted from this point, Athllon Drive and St Tuggeranong Valley and a leading role in the cabinet ministers or from the Murrumbidgee Anthony’s school ground. to the north a vista that establishment of the during the Second World River walking trail between takes in the Australian War Memorial. War. In its heyday the Pine Island Reserve and Access is from Athllon through to the city and main homestead Red Rocks Gorge. Drive near the junction beyond. The mountain is entertained many of Vosper Street. the home of the diverse diplomats and foreign The boundary marker wildlife communities 13. dignitaries. Hill Station is a li le known piece There are two Aboriginal including the eastern is run as a restaurant and of Tuggeranong’s history. scarred trees in this area. grey kangaroo, brush-tail ROSE convention centre today. It once marked the One is located on the north and ring-tail possums, COTTAGE boundary between the side of Athllon Drive echidnas, many reptiles (1855–78) rural properties of (Kambah) on the edge of and over 50 species of birds. Lanyon and Yarralumla. the footpath. The other is Located on Isabella Drive The mountain was once 15. Built between 1867 and on the south side of Athllon covered by a woodland of near the junction of the 1875, the existing portion Drive (Wanniassa) eucalypts-oaks but much of Monaro Highway, Gilmore. STONE RUIN, is a surviving remnant bordering the playing the surface has been cleared MUGGA LANE of a more extensive fi elds of St Anthony’s by grazing. Stone artefact A complex of buildings (PRIOR TO 1878) boundary marker 8. School. Most likely prior sca ers on the slopes and including two nineteenth century rammed earth complex. It was built to European se lement, scarred trees around the Mugga Lane. Located URAMBI buildings, together with using a variety of the Aboriginal people who base are the remaining approximately 4km from the a modern structure. The techniques, including HILLS lived in the area carefully evidence that the mountain junction dry stone wall (stones removed a large slab of bark site was once part of the Access is from several was used by the Ngunnawal and 1.5km from Long Gully piled up without mortar), from each of these trees. The Tuggeranong Station points along Learmonth and Ngarigo people before Road junction. mortared stones, and a size of the bark removed, in European arrival. before being sold in Drive, Kambah. 1855. There is some ditch and bank system. both cases, suggests it was Although not exactly in Wire fencing was also used for making a canoe or uncertainty as to when The walking trail through the Tuggeranong Valley used alongside the stone used as a form of shelter. the two rammed earth this area ranges from a this ruin is worth seeing structure as a form of There are several other buildings were relatively fl at terrain to 11. as you are driving to rabbit-proofi ng. This type trees in Tuggeranong Valley constructed but it was a steeper climb up to the or from the Valley. It is of mixed construction is showing signs of bark FARRER somewhere between dual peaks of Urambi. located on a privately thought to have been very removal. Can you fi nd 1855 and 1878. The The trail takes a four RIDGE leased farm so access is rare in Australia. The wall them? Look for large original buildings were kilometre route around Access is gained from restricted but it can be extended 1,800 metres Eucalypt trees (usually lived in until 1945 and the base to the peaks, but Sulwood Drive between the easily viewed from the from the eastern bank Blakely’s Red Gums) in later they were used for you can please yourself Athllon Drive and Erindale road. The original two- of the Murrumbidgee to park lands, school grounds the accommodation of how far you wish to walk. Drive intersections. room co age was built what is now Drakeford or near the bicycle paths. shearers. The original The open spaces and from stone obtained from Drive. The wall was most These trees are very buildings have been wooded areas provide a Farrer Ridge off ers you nearby Mt Mugga Mugga, likely built by convict signifi cant because they conserved and repairs variety of habitats for a a gentle walk along the sometime prior to 1878. labour, although there are a visible link to the were made to their fl oors, wide range of plants and southern slope of the ridge An additional two rooms are other theories which Aboriginal heritage of windows, and roofs. animals. Kangaroos are or a more strenuous walk were added later. The include Chinese labour. the area. co age was built as an Much of the wall was common and if you are up to the crest. If you lucky, you might see walk quietly you will be out-station, or overseer’s lost during the urban house for employees of development of an echidna. Magpies, rewarded with views of Australian ravens and much of the bird life that the Duntroon station. Tuggeranong and the Although now in ruins, construction of Lake eastern rosellas are lives in the open forest permanent. Urambi Hills areas and the large mob of the design of the co age Tuggeranong but in bears a striking similarity 1989 parts of it were has been subjected to kangaroos that o en grazes clearing and grazing for in the open forest areas or to the restored Blundell’s reconstructed. A portion Co age on the shore of of the original boundary over 100 years but many rests under the trees. The of the native plant species kangaroos are eastern greys Lake Burley Griffi n. wall is visible on the river side of Athllon Drive are making a comeback. and they are the most opposite the Anketell common species in the Street junction. The Canberra region. From the rebuilt section is on top of the ridge there is the opposite side of an extensive view of the Athllon Drive. Tuggeranong Valley looking towards the Brindabella Range in the background.

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LAKE 12. TUGGERANONG TUGGERANONG Access from HOMESTEAD Athllon Drive and Drakeford Drive. (c.1837) Corner of Ashley Drive and 14. Lake Tuggeranong Johnson Drive, Richardson. was formed in the Access is restricted but the HILL 1980s by damming 10 property is open to the STATION the Tuggeranong public on special occasions. Creek at Athllon 15 Located in Sheppard Street Drive. The creek Tuggeranong Homestead in the Hume Industrial originally fl owed 11 is a group of buildings Estate. Look for the signs 9 across the marshy that date from 1837. The along the Monaro Highway. area of Isabella buildings include the 14 Plain and into the 9 main homestead, As you drive in through Murrumbidgee 8 shearing shed and yards, the front entrance you River. It is now a machinery shed, barn, will see a large homestead feature of the stables, a number of other and a small hut to the Tuggeranong Town buildings and remnant side. The single-room hut Centre. Sealed 6 13 was erected around 1862 7 structures associated with cycle-ways enable 10. the running of a large and later additions have you to walk or cycle MOUNT sheep and ca le property. included a second room, around the perimeter TAYLOR The Tuggeranong Valley window frames and a of the lake. On the was se led by Europeans fl oor of bricks made at the western side of the 2 4 There are several walking in 1825 and Tuggeranong Yarralumla Brickworks. lake is Tuggeranong trails. The easiest trails to Station became one of Town Park which 12 locate originate along the largest properties. It The main homestead was off ers a picturesque, 3 Sulwood Drive and Athllon went through several built in 1910. Hill Station grassy picnic spot with Drive near the Sulwood Drive development phases and was part of the larger playground facilities by junction. You can reach the a number of owners Woden Station holdings. the edge of the water. 5 summit using these trails until it was resumed Three members of but the Athllon Drive access by the Commonwealth parliament have been trail allows you to drive part in 1916 and divided up associated with Hill the way up the mountain under soldier se lement Station. The fi rst was 1 7. to a carpark. schemes in the 1920s. Dr James Fitzgerald TUGGERANONG One prominent resident Murray who was Mount Taylor marks of the homestead was appointed to the NSW BOUNDARY the northern edge of the Dr C Bean (1916–26). Legislative Council in WALL Tuggeranong Valley. It is Dr Bean and his staff 1856, the second was 9. a demanding climb to occupied the homestead Sir Henry Gulle and Best seen from Athllon the summit, but when while writing the offi cial the third was Drive opposite Anketell ABORIGINAL SCARRED TREES it is reached there is an history of the First World Sir David Fairbairn. Street Junction. Access can extensive view of the War. Dr Bean also played Both the la er were be granted from this point, Athllon Drive and St Tuggeranong Valley and a leading role in the cabinet ministers or from the Murrumbidgee Anthony’s school ground. to the north a vista that establishment of the during the Second World River walking trail between takes in the Woden Valley Australian War Memorial. War. In its heyday the Pine Island Reserve and Access is from Athllon through to the city and main homestead Red Rocks Gorge. Drive near the junction beyond. The mountain is entertained many of Vosper Street. the home of the diverse diplomats and foreign The boundary marker wildlife communities 13. dignitaries. Hill Station is a li le known piece There are two Aboriginal including the eastern is run as a restaurant and of Tuggeranong’s history. scarred trees in this area. grey kangaroo, brush-tail ROSE convention centre today. It once marked the One is located on the north and ring-tail possums, COTTAGE boundary between the side of Athllon Drive echidnas, many reptiles (1855–78) rural properties of (Kambah) on the edge of and over 50 species of birds. Lanyon and Yarralumla. the footpath. The other is Located on Isabella Drive The mountain was once 15. Built between 1867 and on the south side of Athllon covered by a woodland of near the junction of the 1875, the existing portion Drive (Wanniassa) eucalypts-oaks but much of Monaro Highway, Gilmore. STONE RUIN, is a surviving remnant bordering the playing the surface has been cleared MUGGA LANE of a more extensive fi elds of St Anthony’s by grazing. Stone artefact A complex of buildings (PRIOR TO 1878) boundary marker 8. School. Most likely prior sca ers on the slopes and including two nineteenth century rammed earth complex. It was built to European se lement, scarred trees around the Mugga Lane. Located URAMBI buildings, together with using a variety of the Aboriginal people who base are the remaining approximately 4km from the a modern structure. The techniques, including HILLS lived in the area carefully evidence that the mountain Hindmarsh Drive junction dry stone wall (stones removed a large slab of bark site was once part of the Access is from several was used by the Ngunnawal and 1.5km from Long Gully piled up without mortar), from each of these trees. The Tuggeranong Station points along Learmonth and Ngarigo people before Road junction. mortared stones, and a size of the bark removed, in European arrival. before being sold in Drive, Kambah. 1855. There is some ditch and bank system. both cases, suggests it was Although not exactly in Wire fencing was also used for making a canoe or uncertainty as to when The walking trail through the Tuggeranong Valley used alongside the stone used as a form of shelter. the two rammed earth this area ranges from a this ruin is worth seeing structure as a form of There are several other buildings were relatively fl at terrain to 11. as you are driving to rabbit-proofi ng. This type trees in Tuggeranong Valley constructed but it was a steeper climb up to the or from the Valley. It is of mixed construction is showing signs of bark FARRER somewhere between dual peaks of Urambi. located on a privately thought to have been very removal. Can you fi nd 1855 and 1878. The The trail takes a four RIDGE leased farm so access is rare in Australia. The wall them? Look for large original buildings were kilometre route around Access is gained from restricted but it can be extended 1,800 metres Eucalypt trees (usually lived in until 1945 and the base to the peaks, but Sulwood Drive between the easily viewed from the from the eastern bank Blakely’s Red Gums) in later they were used for you can please yourself Athllon Drive and Erindale road. The original two- of the Murrumbidgee to park lands, school grounds the accommodation of how far you wish to walk. Drive intersections. room co age was built what is now Drakeford or near the bicycle paths. shearers. The original The open spaces and from stone obtained from Drive. The wall was most These trees are very buildings have been wooded areas provide a Farrer Ridge off ers you nearby Mt Mugga Mugga, likely built by convict signifi cant because they conserved and repairs variety of habitats for a a gentle walk along the sometime prior to 1878. labour, although there are a visible link to the were made to their fl oors, wide range of plants and southern slope of the ridge An additional two rooms are other theories which Aboriginal heritage of windows, and roofs. animals. Kangaroos are or a more strenuous walk were added later. The include Chinese labour. the area. co age was built as an Much of the wall was common and if you are up to the crest. If you lucky, you might see walk quietly you will be out-station, or overseer’s lost during the urban house for employees of development of an echidna. Magpies, rewarded with views of Australian ravens and much of the bird life that the Duntroon station. Tuggeranong and the Although now in ruins, construction of Lake eastern rosellas are lives in the open forest permanent. Urambi Hills areas and the large mob of the design of the co age Tuggeranong but in bears a striking similarity 1989 parts of it were has been subjected to kangaroos that o en grazes clearing and grazing for in the open forest areas or to the restored Blundell’s reconstructed. A portion Co age on the shore of of the original boundary over 100 years but many rests under the trees. The of the native plant species kangaroos are eastern greys Lake Burley Griffi n. wall is visible on the river side of Athllon Drive are making a comeback. and they are the most opposite the Anketell common species in the Street junction. The Canberra region. From the rebuilt section is on top of the ridge there is the opposite side of an extensive view of the Athllon Drive. Tuggeranong Valley looking towards the Brindabella Range in the background.

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