{"id":29533,"date":"2025-02-25T14:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T06:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/?p=29533"},"modified":"2025-02-25T14:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T06:07:17","slug":"the-original-1820-prosperous-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/the-original-1820-prosperous-house\/","title":{"rendered":"the original 1820 Prosperous House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rediscovering the first house in Evandale (the original 1820 Prosperous House still hidden behind the 1836 Mansion house version now known as \u2018Fallgrove\u2019) [a post to the Launceston Pictures fb group]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our recent research into \u2018the lost history of early Evandale\u2019 (linked to the \u2018forgotten story\u2019 and legacy of the town\u2019s founder Kennedy Murray) we unexpectedly found the original c1820 Prosperous House built by Murray in 1820 on his first farmland grant approved by Governor Macquarie. In his 1967 History of Evandale, Karl Von Stieglitz referred to how \u201c<em>John Glover died in the small cottage behind the [main Prosperous] house<\/em>\u201d \u2013 perhaps not understanding or appreciating how this cottage was not just the original Prosperous House, but the first house or cottage in the emerging Evandale.<\/p>\n<p>The adjacent Prosperous farmland became the main area of the emerging Evandale in the 1830s as also an emancipist village that was still one of the biggest towns in Van Diemens\u2019 Land in the 1842 census \u2013 and in 1837 with the also largely forgotten Evandale-Launceston Water Scheme (one of the great projects of Colonial Australia) perhaps briefly \u2018larger\u2019 than nearby Launceston at the time. This lost history and related forgotten stories are recovered in our research written up in a book just out titled Prosperous: the Kennedy Murrays and the origins of historic Evandale in early Colonial Australia (see cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays).<\/p>\n<p>The Evandale History Society provided us with a copy of the mansion version of Prosperous House from a Readers Digest special on historic towns of Australia (with the date missing \u2013 if anyone can help provide this information?). Next to this is the nicely renovated version still at 1 Logan Road with the \u00a0 original 1820 cottage still hiding behind it but with a few of its hidden secrets now revealed).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/today-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cottage-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cottage-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cottage.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/c1850-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rediscovering the first house in Evandale (the original 1820 Prosperous House still hidden behind the 1836 Mansion house version now known as \u2018Fallgrove\u2019) [a post to the Launceston Pictures fb group] In our recent research into \u2018the lost history of early Evandale\u2019 (linked to the \u2018forgotten story\u2019 and legacy of the town\u2019s founder Kennedy Murray) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29538,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29533\/revisions\/29538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cameronkrichards.net\/kennedymurrays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}