Quote from Cross, RL 1985, Bygone Queanbeyan, rev. edn, Queanbeyan Publishing Co., Queanbeyan, N.S.W., p. 62.
Frederick Campbell decided that Yarralumla House should have its own dairy and he commissioned Frederick John Young to construct a dairy and two storey house for his dairyman, Mr McPherson, who at the time was
living at Duntroon … When the McPhersons moved into the new dairy they named it ‘Curl Dairy’ after the Bush Stone Curlew birds which abounded in the area. The curlew birds remained on Yarralumla until the 1920s when increasing population and development drove
them away.
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The dairy was lost under the waters of Lake Burley Griffin.
Best wishes – David
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David McDonald
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