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The area was first settled by Europeans in 1828. In 1834 it was officially named Yarralumla, the local aboriginal name for the area. Fredrick Campbell built a large homestead in the area in 1891 that now serves as Government House, the official residence of the Governor-General of Australia. The Canberra suburb of Yarralumla was officially gazetted in 1928 and is home to a population of 3026 people.
Yarralumla is located in the central Canberra district of South Canberra. It is bordered to the north by Lake Burley Griffin, Commonwealth Avenue and Capital Hill to the East, Adelaide Avenue and the Cotter Road to the south and Scriviner Dam and part of the Molonglo RiverThe Molonglo River has its source in the Great Dividing Range of eastern Australia in the state of New South Wales. It flows from south to north before turning northwest, through the outskirts of the New South Wales town of Queanbeyan and continues throug to the West.
Yarralumla is physically one of the largest suburbs in Canberra, though the fact that more than half of the suburb is used for other than residential development means it doesn't have a large population. This non-residential space such as Weston Park, Stirling Park, the Royal Canberra Golf Club, the embassy area and the grounds of Government House plus the suburb's proximity to the City and Lake Burley Griffin are major reasons for Yarralumla's growing popularity.
The embassy area of Yarralumla is located at the eastern end of the suburb next to Stirling Park. It is the most hilly area of Yarralumla and one of the last parts to be developed, Parliament HouseParliament House is the name given to two purpose-built buildings in Canberra, the capital of Australia, where the Parliament of Australia has met since 1927. Before Canberra In 1901, when the six British colonies in Australia federated to form the Commmo and the Parliamentary Triangle are locate nearby.
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In 1837 Terence Aubrey Murray bought Yarralumla, and in 1958 control of the property passed to his Father-in-law Colonel Gibbes. In 1881 Gibbes sold Yarralumla to Fredrick Campbell a descendant of Robert Campbell a prominent early Canberran. In 1891 having demolished most of Mowatt's original hunting lodge Fredrick Campbell built a new three storey house that forms part of what is now Government House. Fredrick also built a large woolshed nearby in 1904.
In 1908 the Limestone Plains area including Yarralumla was chosen as the site for the new capital city of Australia. Soon afterwards in 1913, the Commonwealth Government bought Yarralumla off Fredrick Campbell.
The Yarralumla brickworks where established in approximately 1913 and the Commonwealth nursery and Westborne Woods aboretum where started in the following year. In 1917 the area surounding the brickworks was named "Westridge" by Walter Burley Griffin.
1924 saw the establishment of a temporary work camp on Stirling Ridge named "Westlake". It was to house workers for the constrution of parliament house. The site was choosen so that it was near to parliament house but hidden from direct line of site from anywhere important. The area is now part of Sterling Park near the main embassy area of Yarralumla. Some evidence of the camp still remains today, and signs have been put up commemorating the pioneering people of early Canberra.The Commonwealth forestry school was established near Westborne Woods in approximately 1926. The historic forestry buildings are still located on Banks Street, Yarralumla. In 1928 76 people where living at Westridge, many of them students living in temporary accomadation near the forestry school or workers from the nursery or brickworks. Some brick houses had been built by this time and are now herritage listed buildings. Good examples of early Yarralumla brick houses are visable on Hutchins Street near the Yarralumla shops.
The suburb was gazetted and officially named Yarralumla in 1928. The new suburb included the areas previously called Westlake and Westridge. The residential part of the suburb of Yarralumla was situated adjacent to the proposed site for Lake Burley Griffin close to Westborne Woods and the 53 hectare grounds of the Governor General's residence.
Initially Yarralumla (like most of early Canberra) was almost entirely government built housing. Being on the other side of the Molonglo River from the city centre it was considered too far out of town by most public servants, and it was mainly settled by blue collar workers, many working at the nearby brickworks and nursery. This was also effected by the government policy of the time, of providing housing within short distances of peoples places of work.
Far into the the 1960s and 1970s Yarralumla retained it's image as a lower class suburb. Lake Burley Griffin was filled in 1963 and the lake surounds have been lanscaped into attractive park areas, giving the suburb an attractive lakeside location. During the 1980s house prices began to rise leading to a rejuvenation of the suburb. Large numbers of the original government monocrete, brick and weatherboard houses have now been demolished for the constuction of large new houses, and the suburb is now amongst the most desirable in Canberra.
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