Its place in Australia’s history is rare – Major Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell launched three of his four expeditions from the house, even beginning his foray to Mackay in North Queensland from the homestead.
John Smith settled here in 1851 owning the land from Mount Canobilas to the homestead.
The land on which Boree Cabonne now stands was part of a larger grant given in 1830 to Sydney merchant and later Bathurst farmer Captain Thomas Raine and explorer and statesman William Charles Wentworth. Named from the Aboriginal words for the big myall trees that punctuated the landscape, Boree Cabonne was sold to Thomas Hood in the 1840s and then in 1851 to John Smith.
