29/04/2026
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HISTORIC SNAPSHOT ~ Cadia Park, Lawson/Bullaburra
Today, all that is left is the Stone Rotunda on the left of the Great Western Highway as you leave Lawson going west.
The house was purchased by Charles Hoskins in 1912. He and his wife made a large garden and kept koalas, wallabies and birds.
Charles Hoskins is better known for the Hoskins Iron and Steel Co. Ltd in Lithgow. Saddened by the deaths of two grown-up daughters, and of his eldest son in 1916 after an explosion at the works, he gave the land and built, for ยฃ50,000, a parish hall and the Hoskins Memorial Church (Presbyterian) at Lithgow, which he did not live to see completed in 1928.
In 1930, the Benedictine Order bought the property and operated it as a monastery. A small cemetery was dedicated at the rear, and three members of the Order were to be buried there. In 1949, the property passed to the Sisters of Saint Joseph, who operated it as a holiday rest home for the Sisters of the Order.
In the additional photo link below, you can see the Rotunda to the right of the photo.
The original house was destroyed following the bushfires of 1977.
Rotunda: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zedmacca/268361531/in/album-72157594325989964/
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In the additional photo link below, you can see the Rotunda on the right.
