A COLONIAL COLLAGE

There’s a painting hanging in the homestead at Brickendon that dates from 1833. It shows the view from what was then William Archer’s relatively new home to Woolmers, the farm his brother, Thomas, had established in 1817, when he became the first of four brothers to settle in the northeastern corner of Tasmania. The landscape is instantly recognisable today, as 184 years later the walkway that links the two homesteads is still intact, as are the hedgerows that fenced the property and the suspension bridge that spans the Macquarie River as it winds its way between the two historic farms.

In 2010, the sibling properties gained World