Last updated 27Oct24
Crawford Homestead (Old Station) and orchard plantings
The Crawford Homestead site and orchard plantings are near Lutons Crutching Shed in the Naas Creek valley in the Namadgi National Park.
Location: Homestead site GR 55H FA 75696-33703 (MGA94); Orchard GR 55H FA 75711-33706 (MGA94), Yaouk 8626-2N 1:25000
Crawford homestead and orchard site, August 2013
Visits: 27 Oct 24, 16-17 Sep 23, 7-8 Sep 19, 24 Sep 16, 20 Sep 14, 30 Aug 14, 12 Jul 14, 31Aug-1Sep 13, 3 Sep 11, 19 Jul 11, 26 Apr 11
Documentation:
• KHA Namadgi database (private source). Site 288. Site may have dated originally from the 1840s. In a survey in 1883 the house was valued at 50 pounds. The building fell down in the 1950s and the site was bulldozed to destroy harbour for rabbits. Today some of the fireplace remains standing and other …
• KHA Namadgi database (private source). Site 311. Crawford Homestead orchard plantings including elderberry and cherry (?) from late C19th to 1940s.
• Gudgenby: A register of archaeological sites in the proposed Gudgenby National Park, J H Winston-Gregson MA thesis, ANU, 1978. Site B10. Hut was bulldozed by Noel Luton. The bulk of the chimney granite is piled about 50m east of the hut along with some timber fragments and bottles. Another clump of fruit trees and a small bottle dump are 80m east of the hut. Room divisions are clearly visible in the hut floor. Chimney does not enter the floor area. See extracts of the relevant pages in the photos above.
Peter Hallett
23 November , 2015 7:32 amHi John,
Fancy meeting you here! The Crawford’s are my relatives on my mother’s side. Archibald Crawford was one of them and the ruins featured here would be related to him, I haven’t quite worked out how closely. Archibald Crawford use to travel through these areas on horseback in the 1850s and 60s. He owned Yaouk Station for a while with Lachlan Cochrane. Have you been there? Any photos? I’m redoing a book he wrote call Eighty Five Years in Australia – he wrote it in 1923 aged 90!
Johnny Boy
23 November , 2015 3:58 pmHi Peter
Thanks for the contact. No, I haven’t been to Yaouk Station, only the Old Yaouk property up Kennedys Road for access to Yaouk Gap and Mt Scabby. Cheers. john