The 1830s cottage at Harris Park sits on Australia's first land grant — awarded to farmer James Ruse in 1791. That layered history makes it quietly extraordinary: a working-class colonial origin story preserved in domestic scale, where the distance between now and the birth of European agriculture on this continent collapses to a single afternoon.
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