Yanco homestead, ca. 1900-1919
Yanco homestead, ca. 1900-1919
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1900-1919
Call Numbers
XV/155
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Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photograph - approx. 51.5 x 82 cm, on mount 76.1 x 79 cm - gelatin silver
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Fonds
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Forms part of MLMSS 4632
Alternative Titles
Full title
Yanco homestead, ca. 1900-1919
Notes
General note
Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.4440 as part of the eRecords Project 2013-14
Date note
Date range based on date Samuel McCaughey purchased North Yanco Station (1900) and date of his death (1919)
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Mrs K. McInnes
Pic.Acc.4440
Administrative / Biographical history
In 1900, the pastoralist Samuel McCaughey purchased North Yanco station. He built Yanco, a red brick homestead, and constructed some 200 miles (320 kilometres) of irrigation channels to irrigate some 40,000 acres (16,660 hectares) of property stretching northwest from the Murrumbidgee River. Some of these channels are still in use today. In 1906,...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
XV/155
Record Identifier
1xqZo6GY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1xqZo6GY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
910079
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