OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Gate into “Stanton” Bittern Haebich Farm 1920 - 1930

DATE1920s

MEDIAimage

COLLECTIONHastings-Western Port Historical Society

REG NO.P632

HISTORY

Augustus and Annie Haebich migrated from Germany and settled at Stanton Farm, Bittern, early in the 2oth century. Augustus was a butcher who travelled the district with horse and cart, selling his meat. Annie ran a boarding house in the large dwelling and Augustus ran the farm, building stables, a blacksmith shop, dairy, meat cooling house, a bacon smoking and curing shed and even a cobbling shed to be self sufficient. On the back of the image is handwritten “Gate into “Stanton” Bittern Haebich Farm” “Donated by Merle Haebich”

DESCRIPTION

Image shows trees and shrubs in the foreground, with a fence and gate in the middle distance.

SUBJECTS

Genealogy

KEYWORDS

Haebich, Annie, Haebich, Augustus, Haebich, Merle, Stanton Farm, Bittern