#19787 - Farrer's dream for the Federal Capital at Waniassa
- Resource IDLocation
- 19787Newsletters ed.376, Sept 2001
- Title/subtitle
- Farrer's dream for the Federal Capital at Waniassa
- Author/Creator
- Hall, Michael
- Format
- Newsletter article
- Identifier
- Farrer, William
- Publisher
- Canberra & District Historical Society
- Summary
- William Farrer, the internationally reknowned wheat breeder, proposed, in 1901, that Waniassa, in the Tuggeranong valley south of Canberra, be the site of the new Australian capital. He and John Gale produced a pamphlet to push their case to Members of Parliament.
- Availability
- Copies available for purchase.
- Notes
- Following his death in 1906, Farrer was buried at Lambrigg on a hill behind the homestead.
