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Emu Bottom Homestead
Emu Bottom Homestead is a historic homestead near Sunbury, Victoria, Australia. Built c. 1836, Emu Bottom is the oldest existing farmhouse constructed by settlers in Victoria.〔http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article968474〕〔http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/places/heritage/1136〕 It was so named because “it was low lying ground and the haunt of numerous emus.” 〔Australian Council of National Trusts (1993 reprint of combined edition) ''Historic Homesteads.'' “Emu Bottom” by Elisabeth Grove, p.328. Canberra, ACT. ISBN 0-908198-02-7〕 The main homestead and some of its outlying buildings were constructed from “local stone, dry coursed with creek mud.”〔Susan Priestly (1984) ''Making their Mark''. P.81. Fairfax, Syme and Weldon. ISBN 0-949288-03-9〕
Emu Bottom is also a rare example of early Australian colonial architecture, with its “twelve paned deeply recessed windows ... recalling the old world ... while the homestead (was) also intelligently adapted to the new environment” with its wide verandas and easterly aspect.〔
==History==
The building of Emu Bottom homestead commenced circa 1836. George Evans (1785–1876), who had arrived on the Schooner Enterprize from Van Diemen’s Land in 1835, settled near modern-day Sunbury. Emu Bottom, later called Emu Vale, was occupied by Evans, by squatting licence, as one of many large squatting runs on Crown land. In 1843, Evans, aged 58, married eighteen-year-old Anne Holden. Six children were born from the union and grew up at the homestead.〔http://www.emubottom.com.au/about_emu_bottom/emu_bottom_story.htm〕 After 1851, many squatting runs, including Emu Bottom, became available for outright purchase. To Evans' dismay, “his” run was purchased by the immensely wealthy W. J. T.“Big” Clarke. The homestead block of stayed with Evans, but this was hardly viable.〔Elisabeth Grove, p.332.〕 In about 1860, Evans leased the property and moved to operate a hotel in central Melbourne. He died in Melbourne in 1876, but his family eventually returned to Emu Bottom. In 1916 the last of Evans’ son’s died and the property passed through several owners, being renamed “Holly Green.”
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