The Story

 

Bullamon Homestead, situated on the edge of the Thallon sand-ridge on the Moonie River about a kilometre south west of Thallon township, has been the recipient of a series of grants from all levels of government over the past 22 years. 

Being one of the oldest original structures still remaining in southern, inland Queensland, and once head station presiding over a vast pastoral holding, it was deemed worthy of preservation by the National Trust, and listed on the relevant Heritage Registers in the latter part of the Twentieth Century. 

It is now known locally as "Old" Bullamon Homestead to differentiate between it and a similarly named property in the district, "Bullamon Plains", which was established in the 1920s and is often referred to as Bullamon.  As the name suggests, “Bullamon Plains” is situated on acreage that had been resumed (along with other large parcels of land at various times) from the Bullamon aggregation.

Old Bullamon Homestead will soon be open for visitations at certain prescribed times since the last of the work to stabilise and preserve the structure in as close to its original condition as possible has been completed.

Visitors to the homestead will see a large, rectangular structure built on bedlogs in the ground, which features building techniques of the mid-1800s such as adzed and morticed timbers, whole cypress pine wall and rafter poles and an original hardwood shingle roof fixed with hand forged nails, most likely made on site.

Another intriguing method of joining timber structures is also evident, that being the use of "Tree Nails", which are wooden pegs fashioned to fit into a hole augered into the corresponding log to be attached. 

A large garden featuring decorative shrubs, roses and various small, short-lived flowers in beds, a large arbor with climbing vines and pot plants and a wide variety of fruit trees, and vegetables planted in raised beds has been re-created as near as possible to the layout of the original garden as it was in the mid-1960s when the current owners, the Baker family, took up residence.

 

 



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