PADTHAWAY WALKING TOUR
This tour takes in the historic sites of the original settlers, vineyards, ecological and recreational areas – start at the Rotunda in Apex Park:
6. Padthaway Heritage Golf Club House This little cottage has been known to locals as “The Shepherds Hut”. It was lived in by Douglas Penny and his wife when they married in 1912. Douglas built a new home 100 metres away and Mr. Ralph Penny occupied it for some years. Messrs Doug & Ralph Penny were bee keepers and cleared only about 200 acres. They needed natural growth with varieties of flowering gums for their bees. If you wander 100 metres south from here you will notice the old fruit trees. In the spring masses of bulbs appear near the ruins of Douglas’s home. The hut was restored and opened as the Padthaway Golf Club House in 1988. 7. Historic Woolshed This old woolshed (which can be seen through the vineyards) was built in the 1880’s. The shed was capable of handling the shearing of 1,100 sheep each day by a team of blade shearers. In the 1860’s productivity of Padthaway Station was at its fore. Australia had many millions of sheep. Padthaway ran 27,000 sheep. The shed now houses the Padthaway Estate Winery where ‘ELIZA’ is produced in Australia’s only traditional Basket Champagne Press. 8. Padthaway Marker This unique granite “Padthaway marker” symbolises the region’s agricultural enterprises of livestock, grain seeds, horticulture and vineyards. The marker, opened in 2001, is a fine example of local green granite quarried in the area.
1. Rotunda View original Artwork of Padthaway and surrounds painted by local resident, Anne Emmerson. 2. Historic Padthaway Homestead Built in 1882. Read further history on the
information marker at this point. 3. Padthaway Heritage Cottage
This cottage was built for the overseer of the Padthaway run who drowned at sea. It continued to be a home to Lawson’s workmen. In the 1940’s it was used as the Padthaway Telephone Exchange. It was also used as a drop-off point for mail, bread etc. In the 1980’s it was used as the Doctor’s Surgery. 4. Padthaway Cemetery If you wander into the cemetery you’ll find a small limestone walled plot where two of Robert and Eliza Lawson’s infant children were buried. The Lawson family had 8 children. Mary (their second child) died on 21st Dec. 1855 at the age of 20 months. Anne (fourth child) died on 1st Dec. 1860 at the age of just 15 months. 5. Orchid Track This is the start of the Padthaway Bush walking trail. It leads into the Padthaway Conservation Park which was proclaimed in 1971 and conserves 984 hectares of native vegetation habitats.
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