Gilead () is a suburb of

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, in the state of

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, Australia. Gilead is located 58 kilometres south-west of the

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, in the

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of the City of Campbelltown and is part of the

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region.

History

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was a land named in the

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and famed for its fields of wheat. It obviously seemed like an ideal name for a wheat farm when Reuban Uther was granted in 1812 but Uther only persisted with his dream for six years before selling the estate. The purchaser was Thomas Rose who renamed it Mount Gilead. Rose lived and farmed the estate from 1818 until his death in 1837. The estate was inherited by his son Henry Rose, until the foreclosure by the mortgagees in 1862. In 1941, the land was bought by the Macarthur-Onslow family, owners of nearby

Camden Park Estate The Camden Park Estate incorporating the Belgenny Farm is a heritage-listed large working historical farm located at Elizabeth Macarthur Avenue, in the outer south-western Sydney suburb of Camden South, New South Wales, Australia. It was design ...

, who still own it today. While there has been talk of suburban development, Gilead remains farmland just beyond the edge of suburbia.

Heritage listings

Gilead has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * 767 Appin Road:

Beulah, Gilead Beulah is a heritage-listed farm at 767 Appin Road, Gilead, New South Wales, Gilead, New South Wales, an outer suburb of Sydney, Australia in the Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur region. It was built from 1835 to 1846 by Cornelius O'Brien, ...

* Menangle Road: Sugarloaf Farm

References

External links

Pamphlet on Mount Gilead prepared for its sale in 1888 (including drawings)
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] Suburbs of Sydney City of Campbelltown (New South Wales) {{Sydney-geo-stub