raglan homestead造句

• Title to the Raglan Homestead block was transferred to JM Macdonald in June 1912.
• In 1913 a new residence was constructed at Raglan Homestead for the Macdonalds, just south of the cottage wing and house, overlooking Larcom Vale Creek.
• Raglan Homestead and Slab Hut illustrates the pattern of early European exploration and settlement of Queensland where the development of pastoral properties preceded agriculture and the establishment of towns.
• Between late 1878 and mid-1885 Raglan Station was managed by John A Menzies, who erected a small weatherboard school at Raglan Homestead, where his children were tutored.
• Raglan Homestead and Slab Hut has a special association with the life and work of the MacDonald family, who, as early pastoralists contributed to the development of the area.
• Raglan Homestead and Slab Hut is significant in that it demonstrates the principal characteristics of a 19th-century homestead well, including the residential buildings, associated outbuildings, fences and mature trees.
• James had just reached the station and was constructing the first slab hut on the Raglan Homestead site, above the Larcom Vale Creek crossing, when John Macartney visited him on 30 December 1857.
• Due to its age and intact nature, Raglan Homestead and Slab Hut has the potential to yield information on the way in which such properties were run and evidence for the building techniques used over several generations, thus contributing to an understanding of Queensland's history.
• At this time improvements at Raglan Homestead were valued at over ?, 000 and comprised : a dwelling house ( ) and garden, store, kitchen, bachelors'quarters, men's hut ( possibly the original 1857 hut ), fowl house, sheep classing yard, wool shed, other stockyards and extensive fencing.
• On his death on 26 December 1957 at the age of 94, John Macdonald left a portion of Raglan Station to the Stewarts but the bulk of his estate, including Raglan Homestead, passed as the John and Hettie Macdonald Trust to the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales, to be used to build homes for the aged.