Cosy & historic 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom family home. 5kms from Castlemaine.

Barkers Creek is home to the Dja Dja Wurrung people. It was the first place that gold was discovered in the Mount Alexander Shire. An extension of Castlemaine, today it has roughly 450 residents. However, back in the Goldrush, it had around 10,000 people residing here as well as 16 pubs. If you head up the nearby Specimen Gully Road you can view the remnants of some of the original abodes.

Our historical farmhouse was one of the childhood homes of Albert Facey, the author of the million-selling Australian classic A Fortunate Life.
Born in 1894 and first sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer and farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy, surviving Gallipoli, raising a family through the Depression, losing a son in the Second World War, and meeting his beloved Evelyn with whom he shared nearly 60 years of marriage.
Despite enduring unimaginable hardships, Facey always saw his life as a fortunate one.
A true classic of Australian literature, Facey’s simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of Australian life through the greater part of the twentieth century – the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man.