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TENTERFIELD
CENTENARY
COTTAGE
MUSEUM
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CENTENARY COTTAGE -
GENERAL SIR HARRY CHAUVEL GALLERY PETRIE
PIONEER COTTAGE - MACHINERY OF
BYGONE ERAS |
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136 Logan St (PO Box 225) |
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TENTERFIELD NSW 2372 |
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Phone: 02 6736 2844
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Fax: 02 6736
2844 |
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Email: |
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Website: |
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Step back in time at our 4 in 1 complex
Opening Times
Wednesday to Sunday & Public Holidays
(excluding Christmas Day & Good Friday)
10.00am to 4.00pm
7 days a week during School Holidays
Groups & Coaches Welcome
Adults $3.00 Children $1.00 |
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Centanary
Cottage Museum
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Built in 1871 by Thomas McGaurin
for Michael Egan on land bought in the first sale of town land on 9th
March 1854
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General Sir
Harry Chauvel Gallery
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Highlights the
distinguished military career of Australia's first General (
born in 1865 at Tabulam Station on the Clarence River) who served
in the
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Boer War |
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World War I
commanding the Desert Mounted Corps |
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Displays 38 paintings
on a rotational basis of May Lillian Chauvel - one of
Australia's first internationally recognised women painters. |
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From time to time
houses various exhibitions and theme displays |
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Memorabillia of J.F.
Thomas - renowned for his defence of "Breaker" Morant at his court
marshall during the Boer War |
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Petrie
Cottage
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Originally situated at
116 Rouse Street
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The two front rooms
were built circa 1860 of local pitsawn hardwood, sassafras slab
and battens and a board roof, later covered with shingles and a
brick chimney and fire place were added. |
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More rooms
(lined) and verandah were added later again |
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The cottage has been
restored. |
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It reflects a typical
workman's lifestyle of the 1860's |
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Bygone
Machinery & Tools
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Machinery and tools of
a bygone era - many hand made
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Axes |
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ploughs |
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carts |
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seeders |
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steam engine |
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even a pumpkin Slicer |
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butter churns,
shaping paddles and pattern moulds |
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A collection of
legendary Condamine Bells |
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Standing Stones GLEN INNES |
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Autumn in ARMIDALE |
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Dangar Falls
Armidale / Uralla |
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Thunderbolt's statue URALLA |
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Opal Fossicking INVERELL |
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Lake Glenbawn SCONE |
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Tree Fern Walk
Barrington Tops N.P |
Australian Telescope NARRABRI |
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