OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Stable on Stanton Bittern 1920 - 1930

DATE1920s

MEDIAimage

COLLECTIONHastings-Western Port Historical Society

REG NO.P633

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 “Stable on Stanton Bittern Vic, August Haebich (Standing)” “Donated by Merle Haebich”

DESCRIPTION

Image shows a timber building in middle ground with tall trees behind. In front of the building is a two wheeled carriage with a grey horse harnessed to it and a man seated in it. Another man is standing on the ground talking to the man in the carriage.

SUBJECTS

Carriages and coaches, Farm buildings, Genealogy

KEYWORDS

Haebich, Johann August, Haebich, Merle, Stanton Farm, Bittern