Visitors to the Henry Kendall Cottage & Historical Museum at West Gosford are often intrigued by the relationship of the poet Henry Kendall to the small stone cottage built by a pioneer of Brisbane Water - Peter Fagan.
Many words have been written and published about Kendall: his life and his art have been well documented and commented upon ... Fewer words have been published about the life of Peter Fagan and his family of "Cooranbean", West Gosford.
The story of what is now Henry Kendall Cottage is really the story of individuals in three families: the Fagans, the Kendalls and the Adcocks
- Peter Fagan built the cottage
- Henry Kendall stayed in the cottage
- Garnet Adcock owned the cottage, lived in it for a while, developed the land around it, pioneered a significant business enterprise near it, and contributed to its preservation by selling it to the Brisbane Water Historical Society.
From: The Fagans, the Cottage and Kendall (Historical Monographs No. 8) Joan Fenton (Ed) - West Gosford : BWHS : 1996
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