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"Warrawang", home of Murray families: 1844- 2004

Once the European explorers found a way from Sydney over the dissected sandstone plateau that is the Blue Mountains, pastoral settlers slowly began occupation of the grazing lands. When James Murray arrived in 1843 at Sydney from Scotland he crossed the mountains with his family, to take up land. At that time, James Walker, another Scot from Perth, was established at Wallerawang. Walker was a squatter in the extreme claiming vast areas to the north and west. Murray took up a small property 10kms to the west of Walker's head homestead. The site he chose was the head of a small valley rising on the Great Dividing Range at Mount Lambie. He built a simple house beside the small spring-fed stream. He named the property "Warrawang". For 4 generations, and a succession of 5 homesteads, it remained in the family until after the death of Robert Bruce Murray (1919-2001) when his widow reluctantly sold the property, April 2004.

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