Havilah is an Australian bounded rural locality and a grazing property. It is located 13 km from

Mudgee Mudgee is a town in the Central West (New South Wales), Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the broad fertile Cudgegong River valley north-west of Sydney and is the largest town in the Mid-Western Regional Council Local gover ...

on the

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Road and has the

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2850. The locality also has a

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and

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quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some jurisdictions to reduce their envi ...

Farm and homestead

Havilah took its name after a visiting

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discovered specks of gold and, citing

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, named the area the ' land of Havilah'. The farm was first owned by Nicholas Paget Bayly (1814–1879) and was sold after his death to Henry Charles White (1837–1905). The farm is renowned for a history of producing high quality

merino sheep The Merino is a breed or group of breeds of domestic sheep, characterised by very fine soft wool. It was established in Spain near the end of the Middle Ages, and was for several centuries kept as a strict Spanish monopoly; exports of the breed ...

and horses. The

homestead Homestead may refer to: *Homestead (buildings), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses *Homestead (unit), a unit of measurement equal to 160 acres *Homestead principle, a legal concept th ...

has major additions designed by architect

John Horbury Hunt John Horbury Hunt (1838 – December 30, 1904) was a Canadian-born Australian architect who worked in Sydney and rural New South Wales from 1863. Life and career Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of a builder, Hunt was trained in B ...

Memorial church

Havilah Memorial Church was built in 1905 and gifted to the

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Hunter White enryHunter White (4 October 1867 – 11 March 1947) was an Australian pastoralist, racehorse owner and breeder. He was a noted philanthropist who supported post-war repatriation with substantial gifts of land and the Church of England in New ...

(1867–1947) in memory of his father, Henry Charles White. It lies on the Lue road and has an adjacent small cemetery.

Literary connection

Havilah appears as 'Haviland' and H.C. White as 'Old Black' in

Henry Lawson Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial perio ...

's story 'Joe Wilson's courtship'.J. Broadley, ''Historic Houses of Mudgee'', 2011, p. 201.

References

Localities in New South Wales Houses in New South Wales Stations (Australian agriculture) John Horbury Hunt buildings {{NewSouthWales-geo-stub