These historic buildings at Churchill Island Heritage Farm – two barns and blacksmiths shop – are filled with period implements. They convey the hard toil early farmers endured using rudimentary tools. Equally interesting are the educational boards introducing you to the initial landowners. The first was Lieutenant James Grant, a British navigator who explored the southern coast of Australia and the Bass Strait in 1800 and 1801. He named the island Churchill after a benefactor who supplied him with agricultural seeds.
