The Marulan Historic Meander, Marulan, NSW Australia
S 34° 42.664 E 150° 00.403
56H E 225857 N 6154917
This walking tour of Marulan is advertised on the city website.
Waymark Code: WM7KYG
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 11/06/2009
Views: 9
Copied from the sign in front of the 1st stop on the tour:
"The Butcher Shop
This is the starting point of 'The Marulan Historic Meander'. As you stroll through the village, historic buildings are signposted detailing the early history of the village. First explored at the behest of Governor Hunter in 1798 in search for salt, it was twenty years before serious exploration and settlement took place in 1818. Deputy Survey James Meehan's party supplied and readied to push further south from Sydney. IN his party at the special request of the Governor was Hamilton Hume. After crossing Barber's Creek the party reached as Charles Thronsby described 'a beautiful piece of fine forests called Moorooaulin' (Moroowoolen nee Marulan) described as 'picturesque, well watered and abundant in herbage'. The genesis of Marulan had started. This Victorian shop was built in 1878 and once had an old bakehouse at the rear. A Federation style house has since been added, and as far as can be ascertained, this site has always been a butcher's shop. Even before the present facade of the shop was built, it was Feltham's Butchery and customers queued up outside to be served through the window. Everyone who can remember says Granny Feltham was still a good butcher at 93 years of age."
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another stop: (copied from sign in front of the building)
"VICTORIAN STONE SHOP (10)
This delightful mid to Late Victorian cottage, made from local sandstone, is probably one of the oldest buildings in George Street. It was originally the home of Joseph and Sarah Coombs. By 1980 the building ws owned by William and Mary Ross who ran a grocery store there, as well as operating a blacksmith's at the rear of the shop. The front gable has a windo which was used when heavy stores and equipment were winched to the loft from the horse drawn wagon below. Over the last century this building has been used as a blacksmith, a store, a hairdresser/barber, a real estate agency, a coffee shop and a florist and gift shop. There was at one time a skating rink at the rear of the building."
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and another stop on the walk, copied from the sign:
"ROYAL HOTEL (9)
The Royal Hotel was built in 1872 by Mary Carrigan. Mary Carrigan's two deceased former husbands had owned The Whitehorse Inn at Wingello and the Duke of Edinburth Hotel at Marulan. After Edward Carrigan died in 1871, his wife Mary Carrigan purchased land opposite the Terminus Hotel and built the Royal Hotel the same year. The two-storey brick section at the front of the building was completed by 1880 and the orginal wooden section at the back became a billard room. The new Royal was by far the most opulent of all the inns in the town with plush velvet curtains and beautiful furnishings. In 1884 Mary Carrigan died, followed a few weeks later by her daughter Mary Houm. The eldest daughter, Annie Kelly and her husband then took charge of the hotel. At about the turn of the century, all hotel licenses were recalled by the Government and the Royal Hotel was not re-issued with a license. Since then, the building has had many varied uses, including as a boarding house, as shop, and as a private residence."
A printable brochure can be printed from the website below.
Fee?: 0.00 (listed in local currency)
Approximate Time to Finish: 1 hour
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Brochure or Interpretive Signs: Interpretive Plaques/Signs
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Visit Instructions:
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