
Emu Bottom Homestead
Image courtesy of Kate Deagan Emu Bottom Residence is a historic homestead in the Victorian town of Sunbury. Emu Bottom, built around 1836, is Victoria’s oldest surviving settlers’ farmhouse. Because “it was low lying land and…
Image courtesy of Kate Deagan Emu Bottom Residence is a historic homestead in the Victorian town of Sunbury. Emu Bottom, built around 1836, is Victoria’s oldest surviving settlers’ farmhouse. Because “it was low lying land and…
Image courtesy of Black Diamond Images The Background In 1886, George Chaffey and his brother William Benjamin arrived in Mildura and developed Australia’s first irrigation program. Following their success with irrigation in California, Victorian Premier Alfred…