following their marriage in May 1958. The property was resumed in 1968 to allow suburban development in Weston Creek. The Rivers. In 1926, Aubrey Blewitt was allocated a ten-year soldier settlement lease for Block 13 which he called The Rivers. The block went from the corner of Uriarra Road and Coppins Crossing Road north to the Molonglo River, an area now incorporated into the new suburb of Denman Prospect. Blewitt had previously been granted in present-day North Weston and northern Holder in 1920 (Block 41), but it was resumed in 1925 and incorporated into Block 24 (Weston). In 1946, was excised from his block for a pine plantation (designated Block 45). Aubrey continued to farm The Rivers until his death in May 1961. His wife, Mary, continued to work the property until her death in September 1975. Illoura. Thomas Cargill was offered a ten-year soldier settlement lease for the Block 26A, which extended from present-day Curtin and Lyons across to present-day North Weston and McCubbin to the west. In 1928 he sold his lease to Guy Tanner, and the Tanner family continued to farm the area until the property was resumed in the early 1970s. The homestead was located just to the southeast of the Tuggeranong Parkway / Cotter Road intersection. A clump of large eucalyptus trees still visible to the left of where the southbound onramp meets the Parkway marks the former location of the homestead. Allawah. In 1926, Kenneth Anderson was granted a soldier settlement lease in present-day Fisher and Waramanga, extending across to Mount Taylor (Block 22), and called his property Allawah. In November 1932, with his rent in arrears, he transferred the lease to John and Stella Dent. Cooleman. Philip and Katherine Champion, previously from the property Weetangerra, purchased part of the Allawah lease in 1936 and renamed their property Cooleman. The property covered much of present day Chapman and Rivett. The homestead was located on the slopes of Mt Arawang on the southern side of the Weston valley, located in what is now a reserve in Bertel Crescent, Chapman. Cooleman continued as a sheep run until residential construction in Weston Creek commenced around 1970. The Champions moved to a suburban home in Waramanga. Early roads and landmarks In 1914, the three main roads running into the Weston Creek district were Uriarra Road (now Cotter Road) from the northeast, Long Gully Road from the southeast (through