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After several decades of exploring and establishing various properties and pastoral expeditions across Queensland and the Northern Territory, Buchanan died in 1901 (aged 75) on his farm Dungowan Creek, his final property purchase. He married his wife Catherine Buchanan (née Gordon) in 1863 who survived him along with their son Gordon (born 1864).
It is possible therefore, although not actually stated in the same article, that the Company may have erected a new homestead on the property in the late 1860s. [1] By the mid 1870s, Mount Abundance station was described as one of the largest establishments in the Maranoa and considered to be one of the best grazing properties in Western ...
Anna Creek homestead Alexandria Station, homestead and outbuildings, Queensland, 1921 Channel Country, home to some of Queensland's largest cattle stations Dunes near Andado Cattle and horses in stockyards at Victoria River Downs circa 1985 Brumbies next to the Innamincka Track Innamincka Station 1910 Donkey team at Wave Hill station, Northern Territory, ca. 1946 Brolgas, Brunette Downs ...
Originally station referred to the homestead – the owner's house and associated outbuildings of a pastoral property, but it now generally refers to the whole holding. Stations in Australia are on Crown land pastoral leases , and may also be known more specifically as sheep stations or cattle stations , as most are stock-specific, dependent ...
He also had a section of the verandah built in to provide bathroom and laundry facilities. Because of concerns about the viability of Glengarry as a working property following the construction of Awoonga Dam, it was purchased by the Gladstone Area Water Board on 1 August 1979. [1] The property has been leased for grazing purposes since 1983.
Glenmore Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Belmont Road, Parkhurst, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia.It was built from c. 1858 to c. 1920.The homestead and associated buildings once belonged to pastoral run on the Fitzroy River, seven kilometres northwest of Rockhampton, Queensland.
In 1950, the property was sold by the Australian Estates and Mortgage Company and was then divided into seven separate grazing properties which were opened up for selection by the ballot process. The Elderslie leasehold was reduced to a size of 208.5 km 2 (81 sq mi) and purchased by John Dixon, who sold again in 1954 to Keith Watts for five ...
A pastoral lease, sometimes called a pastoral run, is an arrangement used in both Australia and New Zealand where government-owned Crown land is leased out to graziers for the purpose of livestock grazing on rangelands.