25/02/2026
Next Richlands Open Day will be on Saturday 8 November 2026 (this year!)
As well as the usual displays, walk throughs and guided tours of the relics of earlier occupation, look out for picnic opportunities, demonstrations and light refreshments.
This is an opportunity to soak up the late spring of a large historic orchard and associated drive; to experience the best of the tabelands vistas, from either north (Oberon) or south (Goulburn) approaches - Richlands is truly at the heart of Southern Tablelands pastoral domain ; and, if you have the time, you can explore for yourself the bird life of a healthy expansive native grassy woodland below treeless paddocks of rich redsoil pasture.
We will have on display material outlining the passage from being the exclusive realm of the Gundungurra clans through negotiated in*******se with colonial society to alienation in large holdings by a handful of influential families, then convict settlement and enterprise of the Macarthur family and the origins of the township and community of Taralga, finally to break up of the estate in 1909.
You will be able to inspect the fabric, inside and out, of the original 1841-47 stone and brick headquarters, and learn something of the families making a home in it over the next 150 years. While only traces remain of the scattering of solid vertical slab cottages housing the estate workforce - convict and free, tangible evidence of the substantial butter factory in operation in the early 1900s can be inspected; while twin underground silos from the 1840s remind us of the era when the estate was many weeks journey by dray from a town and all food had to be grown and stored locally.
