Tommy Cass knew life’s ups and downs. By the time he was surveying the 33,000 acres that would become the Deans’ future rural station of ‘Homebush’ in 1851, Tommy had earned the respect and admiration of all those around him. You get the feeling that he walked along with a great confidence and self knowledge …
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On the evening of the 27th June 1846, as carpenter Samuel Manson (builder of the Deans Cottage 1843) was walking home from the Greenwoods’ farm of Purau to Gebbies Pass, three men appeared out of the darkness of Banks Peninsula and knocked on the door of the Greenwoods’ farmhouse. They were known to those inside …
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