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25: 115: 457:. While the new homestead at that location overlooked the fertile River Murray valley, the surrounding country was an extensive semi-arid plain of bluebush with belts of mallee scrub. Campbell died there on 5 March 1859 of blood poisoning from a minor cut to hand caused by a piece of glass, which subsequently turned septic. He is interred at the 424:
in New South Wales in early 1838 (requires confirmation). After Charles Sturt's arduous expedition to explore Australia's interior from 1844 to 1846, Campbell and his near neighbour from Newenham (now a part of modern-day Paradise), Arthur Hardy, conveyed Sturt home in a carriage for part of the way
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Campbell became very well known in the early days of South Australia, partially through his relationship with prominent people like Sturt, but also through his community involvement. He was a Justice of the Peace and is recorded as standing for the East Torrens Electorate of the Legislative Council
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on his Light River run, where in September 1841 he had allegedly murdered an Aboriginal. Having been acquitted, Roach was employed by Campbell as his stock-keeper at Hill River. Roach's confrontations with Aboriginals continued there, until in February 1845 at Campbell's Adelaide home he was killed
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and built a home he called "Lochend" after the ancestral home of his family in Scotland. Lochend was built of local river stone and included a stucco porch, hall and living room with a finely moulded ceiling. Campbell later substantially expanded Lochend by the addition of three bedrooms and a
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Campbell's influence on his beloved Campbelltown was immense and lasted well past his departure from the area and subsequent untimely death. When residents of the area, then part of the District Council of Payneham, decided to form their own Council in 1868, attendees at the public meeting
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Campbell sold Lochend in 1858 for 2,600 pounds and purchased the pastoral occupation license for the recently established North-West Bend Station (or Nor'West Bend Station), a sheep run of 55 square miles sited where the River Murray changes from its westerly course to southerly near
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is now a Sydney suburb and in 2000 the historic Bungarribee Homestead site was listed on the heritage register. On this estate his family engaged in breeding and raising livestock, particularly horses for the East India Company and the British Army in India.
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Lochend included 4 acres (16,000 m) of garden and 156 acres (0.63 km) in the estate, primarily used as pastoral land. In 1849 he subdivided 16 acres (65,000 m) into 40 gardening blocks under the name "Campbelltown".
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Orphaned at 16, he devoted himself to the field of agriculture, particularly pastoralism, after finishing his education. In about 1836 in partnership with his brother, Dalmahoy Campbell, he established
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overwhelmingly voted to name the new District Council "Campbelltown" in his honour. The first meeting of the newly formed Council was held on 2 March 1868 at the Paradise Bridge Hotel.
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on his journey from Moorundi to Adelaide in January 1846 where Sturt records he "arrived home at midnight on the 19th". Sturt named Campbell's Creek in the eastern
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His house, Lochend, fell into a derelict condition and was almost irretrievable. However, it was faithfully restored to near original condition by the
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in honour of Campbell. The school has been amalgamated with the Campbelltown Primary School to form the Charles Campbell College. This opened in 2012.
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under the guidance of the Campbelltown Historical Society and was officially reopened on 29 February 2004.
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In 1838 Charles Campbell participated in the first overland cattle expedition to South Australia, led by
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in 1851. He was known as a great orator and sporting gentleman and was well liked and respected.
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newspaper, 9 March 1859, page 5 (relates cause of death and relationship to Dalmahoy Campbell).
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was closed and merged with the Thorndon High School located on Campbell Road,
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In 1842 Campbell purchased Sections 309 and 310 on a fertile plain beside the
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In 1821 his family migrated to New South Wales in the chartered ship
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which collapsed in February 1886. Martha died sometime around 1897.
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Charles James Fox Campbell was born in 1811 at Kingsborough House,
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In 1992 the Campbelltown High School based at Playford Road,
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In 1850 he married Martha Levi, sister of pastoralist
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