OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Coolart : a short history

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AUTHORWebb, John

PUBLISHERFriends of Coolart

COLLECTIONHastings-Western Port Historical Society

REG NO.875

HISTORY

The Meyrick cousins were the first leaseholders of Coolart, and after they left in 1846 the lease was sold four times until 1875, when the government cancelled the lease and sold the land as freehold. Frederick Sheppard Grimwade bought the property in 1895 as a country retreat and sold it in 1907 due to ill health. Coolart had various owners until it was purchased in 1937 by Tom Luxton, chairman of McEwan’s hardware business. In that year Coolart was established as a wild life sanctuary and the lagoon was established and enlarged as a bird sanctuary. Margaret Luxton and her husband John Roffey took over management of the property in 1968 until the Victorian Government bought the majority as a Crown Reserve in 1977.

SUBJECTS

Farms, Genealogy, Historic buildings

KEYWORDS

Balmain, J. A. S, Benn, John, Buckley, John, Coolart, Feehan, J. Sylvester, Grice, Richard, Grimwade, Frederick Sheppard, Grimwade, Jessie, Grimwade, Russell, Hann, Joseph, Luxton, Tom, Meyrick, Alfred, Meyrick, Henry, Meyrick, Maurice, Payne, John, Payne, William, Roffey, John, Roffey, Margaret, Sumner, John, Webb, John