The community is being invited to “step way back in time” at Dubbo’s Dundullimal Homestead on Australia Day - and to take a family selfie as a modern memento of the visit.
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The property managed by National Trust NSW will showcase itself as “your living history” on the open day.
Horseshoe tossing and other old-time games will hark back to the first years of Dundullimal.
Dusty Bob and guides will offer free tours of the attraction, built in the early 1840s and believed to be the oldest slab house in Australia.
Organisers encouraged visitors on the day to dress up and have their family selfie portrait taken.
They will serve an Aussie sausage sizzle and Devonshire teas in the refurbished 19th century machine shed.
Property manager Greg Marginson was surveying the 1850s sandstone stables, old farm machinery shed and farm machinery, sulky cart and outdoor dunny ahead of the open day.
“Dundullimal’s story is one of amazing endeavour and vision, evidenced in the creation of a finely-crafted historic home,” he said.
“The homestead almost certainly Dubbo oldest public building has survived in near original condition from a time when the land was beyond the limits of settlement.
“Since 1988 Dundullimal has been managed by the National Trust NSW and by a dedicated band of local volunteers who contribute over 100 hours every week to keep the homestead operating.”
The Australia Day open day will be on Thursday from 11am to 3pm and admission is by gold coin donation.
Dundullimal is open to the public 11am-3pm Tuesday to Saturday.
The homestead will be closed from February 1 to 27, and reopen on February 28.