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    Brush Farm is a heritage-listed former farm, residence and vineyard and now tourist attraction, community facility, exhibition venue and meeting venue...
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    occurs at Brush Farm park. Other notable plants include native crabapple, jackwood and red olive berry. Despite being within a large city, Brush Farm has remarkable...
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    Around 1800 about 100 Aboriginal people were noted as living around Cox's Brush Farm on the Carlingford-Eastwood border. By 1827 the numbers of Aboriginal...
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    spread from Brush Farm into Dundas Valley where he grazed sheep and cattle and grew corn and wheat. Gregory Blaxland purchased Brush Farm in 1806. Lieutenant...
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    convict servants. Soon afterwards he also bought 450 acres (180 ha) at the Brush Farm (near Eastwood) from D'Arcy Wentworth for £1500, while also displaying...
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    Road and Tramway Street, and east from Brush Road to Shaftsbury Road. In 1829 Blaxland transferred Brush Farm Estate to his eldest daughter, Elizabeth...
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    River to Canada, leaving behind his farm, "Private Claim #1," which was immediately adjacent to Detroit. Elijah Brush was elected a trustee in 1803, appointed...
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    Riverview House, West Ryde (category Farms in New South Wales)
    Spurway received his ticket of leave in 1838 and leased a farm from Foster adjoining Brush Farm where he established his own orchard. By 1842 Spurway was...
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    Australia's first wine export was shipped to England from Blaxland's 'Brush Farm' vineyard in Ermington. From the 1830s, the Ermington region became an...
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    National Register of Historic Places. Originally part of a French ribbon farm, Brush Park was developed beginning in the 1850s as an upscale residential neighborhood...
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    Gardens official website Rosehill Gardens - The Race Guide NSW Government - Brush Farm Freeman's Journal - 25 April 1885 Sportsman - 1 April 1885 Sydney Morning...
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    Gregory (2004). The River: Sydney Cove to Parramatta. Eastwood, N.S.W.: Brush Farm Historical Society. p. 145. ISBN 0-9751419-1-0. ADB on Raven ADB on Squire...
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    Denistone, 1-13 Pennant Avenue: The Hermitage Eastwood, Marsden Road: Brush Farm Gladesville, 144 Ryde Road: Gladesville Drill Hall Ryde, 782 Victoria...
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    the land was rented by the explorer Gregory Blaxland, who owned nearby Brush Farm. In 1818 the Balmain lands were sold to an ex-convict John Bennett. His...
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    a new State-controlled farm for wayward boys. The farm was to replace the former Nautical School Ships and the small Brush Farm. All the boys in the working...
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    Some of the grants were at the North Brush, north of the Field of Mars settlement, in the area of Brush Farm and Eastwood. Most of the Grants were small...
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    Berrima with the stolen horse team, on his way to Mulligan's farm at Wombat Brush. Living at the farm were John Mulligan (aged about 61), his de facto wife,...
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    A shaving brush or shave brush is a small brush with a handle parallel to the bristles used to make lather from shaving soap or shaving cream and apply...
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    Blaxell, Gregory. The River: Sydney Cove to Parramatta. Eastwood, N.S.W.: Brush Farm Historical Society, 2004. ISBN 0-9751419-1-0. Pollon, Francis (compiler)...
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    as well as Thomas Cornell (settler) and the Winthrop family. Brush was raised on a farm about 10 miles from downtown Cleveland. He had a great interest...
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  • catchment is bounded by Hughes Avenue, Fitzgerald Road, Marsden Road, Brush Farm, Brush Road, Bellevue Avenue and Adelaide Street. The catchment straddles...
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    India in 1817, Wales in 1822, Ireland in 1825 and settled down in 1829 in Brush Farm, Eastwood, built by Blaxland in about 1820, and the birthplace of the...
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    A bush hog or "brush hog" is a type of rotary mower. Typically these mowers are designed to be towed behind a farm tractor using the three-point hitch...
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    digging. He then made his way to Sydney where he was employed to clean the Brush Farm for more than a year and later worked as a hod carrier for several new...
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    residence Brush Farm. The history of the property is a clear and typical example of the process of gentleman settlers amalgamating small farm grants to...
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    Camden Park Estate (category Farms in New South Wales)
    Belgenny Farm Conservation Management Plan: final draft. Blaxcel, Greg (2010). Letter to the editor, Northern District Times re Brush Farm viticulture...
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    21 September 2005. Blaxell, Gregory. The River: Sydney Cove to Parramatta. Eastwood, N.S.W.: Brush Farm Historical Society, 2004. ISBN 0-9751419-1-0....
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  • fruit orchards that had spread south from Carlingford and west from the Brush Farm Estate through the Dundas Valley to the Parramatta River. When the Dundas...
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    Carwoola Homestead (category Farms in New South Wales)
    prior to his marriage in 1849 to his first cousin, Martha Forster of Brush Farm (Eastwood, Sydney). In 1839 Rutledge's brother Thomas had sailed to Australia...
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    his knowledge and cuttings from his vineyard. Cuttings from Blaxland's Brush Farm provided early vines for Wyndham Estate (then Dalwood) in the Hunter Valley...
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