Map of Cunningham Plains

Subdivisions for sale, 1907

The Australian Dream

The Cunningham Plains Subdivision included 74 lots of varying sizes, ranging from 40 acres to 4482 acres. Depending upon the quality and location of the lot, the price varied from £2 to £10 per acre. Advertising for the new subdivision proudly states: ‘In the early days the property was timbered with White and Yellow Box, Apple, and some scattered Gum, these have all been long since ring barked, and large areas cleared.’

Located 360 kilometres from Sydney, potential buyers were enticed to inspect the properties by the offer of specially reduced train fares.

This subdivision plan is typical of the colourful posters produced by estate agents to promote land and property sales. The Mitchell Library has over 40,000 subdivision plans, ranging from handdrawn surveyors’ plans from the 1790s through to these brightly coloured posters from the early twentieth century.
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