Tuggeranong Suburbs - WANNIASSA Traditional Geocache
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Tuggeranong Suburbs - WANNIASSA
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18th and last in the series.........
GZ is at the start of some of the walking trails in the area and the cache is an easy grab. If you park on the other side of the road, take care when crossing.
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The suburb is named after an early local name for the Tuggeranong district. Streets are named after Victorian state politicians. The Wanniassa estate was founded in 1835. The suburb was gazetted on 21 May 1974.
Tuggeranong Homestead is located in the Australian Capital Territory in the area now covered by the suburb of Richardson.
The original homestead, known as Waniassa House, was built by the Macquoids between 1836 and 1841, consisting of five rooms and was extended several times during the 1890s. The current Tuggeranong homestead was built in 1908 for James Cunningham. Gilbert McInnes of Woodfield constructed the pise walls and John J. Purcell and John Jordan of Queanbeyan did the remainder of the work. Sixteen new rooms were added to seven rooms from the earlier homestead, but none of the original rooms were retained. It included acetylene gas, electric bells throughout and hot and cold water laid on. It contained twenty three rooms and an underground cellar.
The homestead was one of the largest and perhaps best appointed in the district and the total cost exceeded £2100. It became the centre of social and sporting activities in the district.
Although Canberra suburbs have been developed on much of the original property the homestead has been preserved on 65 acres (260,000 m2) of surrounding land. The heritage-listed property currently hosts the Tuggeranong Homestead markets, on the first Sunday of every month, and is also a home for the Calwell Scout Group.
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