When was oakdale in nsw first built

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It can be opened during the week, tel: 02 The handsome presbytery was built in for the Sisters of St Joseph and used as a boarding school for girls until when it became the residence of the local parish priest; and the priest's house used as the presbytery when today's presbytery was being used as a girls' school. It is a simple, small slab-walled timber parish church which was erected in and made from timber which had been felled by convicts.

It was constructed by servants of the Wild and Russell families. It is probably the oldest church of its type remaining in Australia and one of the oldest churches still in use in New South Wales. It was originally L-shaped. Now it is a simple rectangle. This change occurred when it was renovated in the s due to white ants destroying part of the original building. The churchyard contains the graves removed from the church at Burragorang as well as graves of early settlers including Suzanah Mileham, a descendant of Captain Cook who died in , and Henry Kable Jr, the son of parents who arrived as convicts in the First Fleet and who were one of the first three white couples to be married in Australia.

The church is located on Old Oaks Rd. It is usually locked, to see the interior contact St Luke's Church, tel: 02 The first settler was former convict Edward Moore who purchased acres ha in He divided his estate between his three sons.

Robert Moore, one of Edward's sons, married a daughter of 'Granny' McKillegit, a well-respected local midwife from Glenmore in Ireland. This is how the settlement was named. Methodist services began at Glenmore in and a church was erected in It was used as a school until It is now Glenmore Uniting Church.

Edward Moore's homestead Glenmore House has been turned into a unique tourist destination. On their home page they explain "Almost 25 years ago, Larry and Mickey Robertson discovered a collection of dilapidated, early colonial vernacular farm buildings in the foothills of the Razorback Range near Camden. Since then, the original farmhouse has been restored and extended.

And the former cowshed, dairy, stable, hay shed, barn, store room and other outbuildings have been given new purpose. Step by step, all have been linked together by new fences, walls, paths, steps, hedges and gardens.

The result is a small, unique and charming country property nestled into a landscape of delightful rise and fall Oakdale Oakdale 6 km west of The Oaks on Burragorange Road was settled in the s by timber-getters.

It was surveyed in and by , with the dominant industry being timber, sawmill was built. In a slab hut was built by local parents as a schoolhouse. It was replaced by a government school in Today Oakdale is a fruit-growing area on the edge of Sydney's southern overspill.

It was surveyed in and was used as a bullock-dray track across the valley. When silver was discovered at Yerranderie in the s it was upgraded.

It later became a popular destination for tourists but when the Warragamba Dam was completed in the late s the valley was flooded and access through to Yerranderie was cut off. The reason for the building of the dam was a drought which lasted from and created an acute water shortage in Sydney. It was decided to dam the waters of the Cox, Nattai and Wollondilly rivers and the result was Lake Burragorang which covers ha and holds over 2 million milliltres of water. If you travel to the western end of Burragorang Road 15 km west of The Oaks you reach Burragorang Lookout which provides panoramic views across the valley, the lake and access to Nattai State Recreation Area where bushwalking can be enjoyed.