Angus Celebration
The Angus breed celebrated the arrival in 1824 by revealing a historical marker at Bothwell in the Central Highlands of Tasmania on Thursday morning, prior to the Bothwell Calf Sale.
On January 20 1824, eight black cattle, then known as Fifeshires, stumbled off the Triton onto Hobart town wharf after a perilous voyage from Scotland and then embarked on a 75km walk to “Dennistoun”.
Accompanied by a piper, two handlers and some Angus cattle re-enacted arrival. Tasmania’s Minister of Primary Industries and Water, the Hon David Llewellyn, performed the ceremony on Dennistoun Road opposite Bothwell’s Visitors’ Information Centre assisted by Angus Australia’s president, John Young, from Western Australia.
Dennistoun today is a 4000 hectare property run by Henry Edgell and his family. The property runs a herd of 120 commercial Angus females as well as sheep with its main activity irrigated cropping.
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