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Nestled in gently rolling hills about six kilometres south of East Gresford in the beautiful Paterson Valley is the district of Torryburn. The original property called Torryburn was first settled in 1821 by John McIntyre and is now a boutique stud in the heart of thoroughbred country. It is steeped in colonial history and is the setting for the inspiration behind one of Australia’s most evocative poems: ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackellar. She was just a teenager when her family moved to the Torryburn district in 1898, coinciding with one of the worst droughts in the history of white settlement. The poem is believed to have been directly inspired by Dorothea witnessing the breaking of a drought when she was at Torryburn.