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* Gungahlin, settled in the early 1990s, 7 suburbs to date
 
* Gungahlin, settled in the early 1990s, 7 suburbs to date
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The Mayfield House was a country house of Elizabethan style built in 1874 for Sir [[Edmund Barton]]. The southern draper whose store ultimately became part of [[Debenhams]] bought the house in 1887.
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The Mayfield House was a country house of Elizabethan style built in 1874 for Sir [[Edmund Barton]]. The southern draper whose store ultimately became part of [[Debenhams]] bought the house in 1887. Governor Joseph Femers built a small house for himself on the hill of The Crescent. In 1899 this was replaced by a larger residence which, substantially improved by Governor Lachlan Macquarie has survived to the present day, used as a retreat by Governors until the 1850s with the governor making it his principal home for a short period in the 1920s.
    
== Geography ==
 
== Geography ==

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