It is alleged that, following this, the shamed Johnson leapt to his death from the roof of Oran Park house.
Johnson lived at Oran Park until 1867 when he defaulted on his mortgages and was foreclosed on by Thomas Barker who took possession of the property. It is assumed that the first was to purchase 324 hectares (800 acres) of land and the buildings and the second was to finalise the construction of Oran Park house ( c. In 1842, the lease was transferred to Henry William Johnson who took out two mortgages on the property. Although the buildings were incomplete, Campbell leased the property in 1839 to Henry Keck Esq., Governor of Darlinghurst Gaol, who (as an agreement of the lease) was to continue with and finalise the construction of Oran Park house. One thousand acres was transferred to Campbell's nephew, John Douglas Campbell, who commenced construction of a dwelling house and associated outbuildings (the existing coach house dates from c. Upon Campbell's death in 1827, Harrington Park underwent the first of many land subdivisions. The land on which Oran Park house now resides was, during Campbell's time, open cleared land for pastoral cultivation and livestock grazing.
In 1815, Governor Macquarie granted an 809-hectare (2,000-acre) parcel of land to Captain William Douglas Campbell, a member of the British merchant navy, who named the estate Harrington Park. The newly appointed governor, Lachlan Macquarie, soon had the land surveyed and began granting land allotments to the colonial elite. Quickly, the acquisition of land in the district was being sought by private colonists. This environment was considered ideal for the establishment of the wealthy estates so desired by the colonial gentry. The low rambling hills and wide expanses of grass flats were devoid of difficult vegetation and reminded the colonists of the familiar landscape of an English gentleman's park.
įollowing the discovery of the area, the colonial gentry soon regarded it as rich, fertile and suitable land for livestock grazing and pastoral pursuits. By 1795, the settlers had journeyed to the Cumberland Plain (to the west) and discovered the rich land of the Cowpastures, named after the discovery of a herd of wild cows that had escaped the colony years earlier and wandered west, grazing the land now known as the Camden district. History Īfter settling at Sydney Cove in 1788, the First Fleet soon found the soil unsuitable for farming and looked for more fertile soils beyond the established boundaries of the colony. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 5 March 2015. It is sometimes referred to as Catherine Park House due to a land subdivision of Catherine Fields, however "Catherine Park" is only a developer's name for the area and not a true suburb. Oran Park is a heritage-listed former golf course, private residence and golf clubhouse and now private residence located at 112-130 Oran Park Drive in the south-western Sydney suburb of Oran Park in the Camden Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia.
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