This booklet published by The Charles Sturt Museum Trust Incorporated tells the story of this house built by Captain Charles Sturt (a founder of South Australia) in 1840, in the area then known as the ‘Reedbeds’. It tells the story of the area and contains a plan of the house and environs drawn by his second son, Charles Sheppey Sturt, for his sister in law, Beatrix Sturt, who was his father’s biographer. It is a valuable student resource
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