{"id":20573,"date":"2013-10-25T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/glimpse-campbelltowns-days-as-a-colonial-town-2\/"},"modified":"2013-10-25T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T08:57:00","slug":"glimpse-campbelltowns-days-as-a-colonial-town-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/10\/glimpse-campbelltowns-days-as-a-colonial-town-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Glimpse Campbelltown\u2019s Days as a Colonial Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GlenalvonTo celebrate Macarthur\u2019s biggest annual event \u2013 the Festival of Fisher\u2019s Ghost from November 1-10 – one of NSW\u2019s finest Georgian mansion, the 1840-built Glenalvon, will offer four, free open days in November.<\/span><\/span>

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Built from sandstone, the two-storey colonial house provides a glimpse into Campbelltown\u2019s days early in the 19th<\/sup> century as a small farming community accessed only by horse and cart from the fledging colony of Sydney.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Glenalvon features a period garden, a sandstone coach house and stables. Boasting smooth, golden stonework, the property is home to the Campbelltown and Airds Historical Society and visitors can inspect items from the Macarthur region\u2019s colonial and farming history.<\/span><\/div>\n

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To mark the Festival of Fisher\u2019s Ghost, which surrounds the murder of an emancipated convict in 1826, Glenalvon will hold four free open days on Saturday November 2, Monday November 4, Saturday November 9 and Monday November 18, 2013.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The house is nestled in the heart of Campbelltown in the Macarthur region, 45 minutes south-west of the Sydney CBD.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Open Days:   <\/b>Saturday, November 2: 10am-4pm<\/span><\/div>\n
Monday November 4: 10am-1pm<\/span><\/div>\n
Saturday, November 9: 10am-3pm<\/span><\/div>\n
Monday November 18: 10am-1pm<\/span><\/div>\n
Where:<\/b>           Lithgow St, Campbelltown, in the Macarthur region. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Cost:<\/b>               Free entry.<\/span><\/div>\n
Info: <\/b>               4625 1822 or www. macarthur.com.au<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To celebrate Macarthur\u2019s biggest annual event \u2013 the Festival of Fisher\u2019s Ghost from November 1-10 – one of NSW\u2019s finest Georgian mansion, the 1840-built Glenalvon, will offer four, free open days in November. Built from sandstone, the two-storey colonial house provides a glimpse into Campbelltown\u2019s days early in the 19th century as a small farming community […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}