24-531: Deasland was a historic homestead at Ginninderra (now called Gold Creek) in Canberra ’s north on the Barton Highway . It was demolished in early 2022 due to ' Mr Fluffy ' asbestos contamination. Deasland was commissioned by Ginninderra storekeeper, George Harcourt, between 1890 and 1893 and built by contractors Lazarus and Holland. It was a six-room, single-story timber homestead with verandahs and iron roof. There
48-469: A flock, primarily pastured at Ginninderra in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s. Curran was also an accomplished sportsman and benefactor of the local community. The Currans improved Deasland's pasture, renovated the homestead itself, and constructed a large woolshed, hayshed, shearers’ quarters and a farmhand's cottage. They sunk a bore, built dams and even laid an ant-bed-clay tennis court. Babe Curran died unexpectedly in 1964. His son, Richard, wound up
72-455: A history of the Ginninderra district , ACT Heritage Unit, ISBN 0-9590255-1-0 Ginninderra electorate The Ginninderra electorate is one of the five electorates for the unicameral 25-member Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly . It elects five members. It was created in 1995, when the three-electorate, Hare-Clark electoral system was first introduced for
96-518: A world record price at auction. That year’s record auction prices helped perpetuate the myth that the country’s woolgrowers were all millionaires. The centre of the local wool industry was the Ginninderra Woolshed, the district’s largest, (the site of which was located close to the present-day intersection of Gundaroo Drive and Baldwin Drive in the suburb of Giralang . The structure was demolished in
120-563: Is also a heritage-listed brick dairy. George Harcourt was born in 1842 at Edgbaston , England. He seems to have named the property after ‘Deasland Farm’ in Worcestershire , where his parents were married in 1819. But he only enjoyed his new home for a short time, as he died in December 1893. Harcourt had started out as William Davis’ bookkeeper around 1860 and went on to serve as Ginninderra storekeeper and postmaster. The Harcourts also farmed in
144-622: Is called Ginninderra . The name is celebrated through the place name Ginninderra Drive, an arterial road that traverses the Canberra district of Belconnen . The Ginninderra Plain is bound by the Spring Range and the NSW-ACT border to the north, by Black Mountain and the O'Connor Ridge to the east, by a line of hills leading west from Mount Payntor towards the Murrumbidgee River to the south and by
168-492: Is now Belconnen and southern Gungahlin . It adjoined the Charnwood Estate to the west and Yarralumla Estate to the east. The combined area of the Ginninderra and Charnwood Estates was nearly 20,150 acres (8155 ha). Between the years 1830 and 1836, the colonial surveyor Robert Hoddle made several visits to the district, to survey property boundaries. He captured Ginninderra's wild beauty in watercolour and ink. The property
192-722: Is now the ACT.[1] Anthropologist Norman Tindale has suggested the principal group occupying the region were the Ngunnawal people, while the Ngarigo and Walgalu lived immediately to the south, the Wandandian to the east, the Gandangara to the north, and the Wiradjuri to the north-west.[2]Earliest written reference to the area use the spelling 'Ginninginderry' though by mid 19th century the 'Ginninderra' variation
216-570: The Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Prior to 1995, a multi-member single constituency existed for the whole of the ACT. The name "Ginninderra" is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning "sparkling like the stars". It is the name given to the creek that flows through the middle of Belconnen , which was dammed to form Lake Ginninderra, the lake on which the Belconnen Town Centre is sited. The Ginninderra electorate comprises
240-513: The Canberra districts of Belconnen and Hall . After the 2001 redistribution the Gungahlin suburb of Nicholls was moved to the electorate. The 2008 redistribution made no changes to the boundaries of the electorate. In the 2012 redistribution the Gungahlin suburbs of Crace and Palmerston were moved from Molonglo into Ginninderra. In the 2016 redistribution, all three Gungahlin suburbs,
264-616: The Harcourts. Burgoyne had been prominent in the Ginninderra Farmers' Union . In 1916 John and Edith Edmonds took over the lease and farmed the area. The Edmonds family moved to Burrowa in 1926. In January 1927, the Curran family purchased the Deasland lease. Henry Curran , known as ‘Babe’, was the local blacksmith's son, who had married Amy Reid of Tallagandra in 1921. They had been living in
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#1733085987910288-466: The district and were prominent in civic affairs. After George's death, Millicent Harcourt (née Ward) and her children, remained in Deasland and grew wheat and sheep on its 685 acres until the land was resumed in 1913 for the new Australian Federal Capital Territory . Deasland, along with many other buildings in Ginninderra, were almost destroyed by bushfire in 1905. Two short-term tenants - Edward Boreham followed by Joseph Burgoyne - occupied Deasland after
312-590: The early 1970s to make way for the urban development of Belconnen. Key events in Gininnderra: This collection of buildings became known as Ginninderra Village. In 1962, with the retirement of local schoolteacher and postmaster, Richard O’Sullivan, the last of the Ginninderra Village original buildings, the post office and the Ginninderra Public School permanently closed. Students moved to
336-526: The estate, with the family finally departing in late 1971. The property was no longer operated as a high-yield sheep station. During the 1990s, the homestead and other parts of the former dairy were listed on the former Register of the National Estate . After a few short-term tenants came the MacKinnon family, who have lived at Deasland from 1975. During the latter years, many of the outbuildings, including
360-865: The hills at Brookland (in NSW) and the Brindabella Ranges to the west. The plain contains the entire water catchment area of Ginninderra Creek , which empties into the Murrumbidgee River and forms part of the Murray-Darling Basin . The urban environs of the city of Canberra straddle the Ginninderra Plain, Molonglo Plains , the Limestone Plain, and the Tuggeranong Plain (Isabellas Plain). Indigenous Australian peoples have long inhabited what
384-408: The large shearing shed, were demolished. The property shrank to a few acres around the homestead and dairy, as Canberra's suburbs and golf links encroached. Deasland Place in the Canberra suburb of Fraser was named after the homestead on 13 April 1976. Deasland was listed for demolition in 2015, as it was contaminated by loose fill asbestos insulation, probably introduced around 1973. The homestead
408-577: The nearby Hall public School. The few remaining buildings in the former village are a timber hall (the former St Francis Church) and the Ginninderra Schoolhouse which are both located today within the tourist precinct of the Gold Creek Village in the suburb of Nicholls . 35°11′35″S 149°5′7″E / 35.19306°S 149.08528°E / -35.19306; 149.08528 Gillespie L, (1992), Ginninderra, Forerunner to Canberra:
432-445: The old Ginninderra cottage (at modern Giralang ) with their two infant daughters, before they could afford to purchase the Deasland lease. Curran's father's blacksmith shop, which is also heritage-listed, has survived, next door to Deasland. The Currans owned Deasland for 44 years and built up its pasturage to 1,178 acres. Curran became one of Australia's premier woolgrowers, setting a range of world, Commonwealth and NSW record prices for
456-450: The southern part of the district of Belconnen , including the suburbs of Aranda , Belconnen , Bruce , Charnwood , Cook , Dunlop , Evatt , Florey , Flynn , Fraser , Hawker , Higgins , Holt , Latham , Lawson , Macgregor , Macnamara , Macquarie , Melba , McKellar , Page , Scullin , Spence , Strathnairn and Weetangera . Two Belconnen suburbs, Giralang and Kaleen are part of Yerrabi . From 1995 to 2001 it contained
480-417: The watershed of Ginninderra Creek , which is now in part occupied by the Canberra districts of Belconnen and Gungahlin . The word 'Ginninderra' is one of several - Molonglo, Gold Creek and Monaro are others - that hold longstanding connections to Canberra's local history. The Ginninderra Cricket Club, Ginninderra District High School and Ginninderra Labor Club are examples. One of the local ACT electorates
504-502: Was demolished in early 2022. The owners of the property attempted to have a small part of Deasland preserved as a memorial, but permission to do so was refused by the ACT Government's Asbestos Response Taskforce. Ginninderra Ginninderra is the name of the former agricultural lands surrendered to urban development on the western and north-western fringes of Canberra , the capital of Australia . Ginninderra corresponds with
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#1733085987910528-550: Was in general use. The name Ginninderra is derived from the Aboriginal word for the creek which flows through the district of Ginin-ginin-derry which is said to mean sparkling or throwing out little rays of light . George Palmer established his Palmerville Estate in 1826 in Ginninginderry with a homestead located on the banks of Ginninderra Creek adjacent to the presentday suburb of Giralang . The estate encompassed much of what
552-551: Was predominantly a wheat growing district especially for the smaller landholders. Much of the local produce supplied the large workforce at the region's goldfields located at Braidwood and Major's Creek. Harry Holland , the second leader of the New Zealand Labour Party , was born here in 1868. During the first half of the twentieth century Ginninderra developed a reputation for high quality merino wool. Henry ‘Babe’ Curran of Deasland near Ginninderra Village achieved
576-464: Was sold to William Davis, also from a prominent local family, and it continued to prosper. The second wave of Ginninderra settlement began in the early 1850s with free settlers such as the Rolfe, Shumack, Southwell, Gillespie and Gribble families. These settlers established wheat and sheep properties such as 'Weetangara', 'Gold Creek' ,'The Valley' and 'Tea Gardens'. During the mid 19th century Ginninderra
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