Gilead, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Gilead
city = Sydney
state = nsw


caption =
lga = City of Campbelltown
postcode = 2560
pop =
est =
area =
propval =
stategov = Wollondilly
fedgov = Macarthur
near-nw = Glen Alpine
near-n = Rosemeadow
near-ne = St Helens Park
near-w = Menangle Park
near-e = Wedderburn
near-sw = Menangle
near-s = Appin
near-se = Wedderburn
dist1 = 58
dir1 = south-west
location1= Sydney

Gilead is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Gilead is located 58 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Campbelltown.

History

Gilead was a land named in the Bible and famed for its fields of wheat. It obviously seemed like an ideal name for a wheat farm when Reuban Uther was granted 400 acres in 1812 but Uther only persisted with his dream for six years before selling to Thomas Rose who renamed it Mount Gilead. Rose farmed the area successfully for over sixty years. In 1941, the land was bought by the Macarthur-Onslow family, owners of nearby Camden Park Estate, who still own it today. While there has been talk of suburban development, Gilead remains farmland just beyond the edge of suburbia. [cite web | url= http://www.campbelltown.nsw.gov.au/default.asp?iDocID=2103&iNavCatID=322&iSubCatID=1374 | title=History of Gilead | publisher=Campbelltown City Council| accessdate=2008-03-21]

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