Elizabeth Farm

Sydney

Elizabeth Farm contains part of Australia’s oldest surviving colonial building (1793), built by renegade pastoralist and rum trader John Macarthur. Heralded as the founder of Australia's wool industry, Macarthur was a ruthless capitalist whose politicking made him immensely wealthy and a thorn in the side of successive governors. The pretty homestead is now a hands-on museum where you can recline on the reproduction furniture and thumb voyeuristically through two of Elizabeth Macarthur’s letters.

A fantastic Devonshire tea is served in the tea rooms on weekends.

Contact

Address

70 Alice St. Rosehill

Get In Touch

02-9635 9488

https://www.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au

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