Olivewood Historic Homestead and Museum

Olivewood Historic Homestead and Museum is a National Trust-listed property on Twentyfirst Street in Renmark, South Australia, on the Murray River. Built in 1885 for Charles Chaffey, co-founder of the Renmark irrigation settlement, the pise and timber homestead is surrounded by heritage olive groves. It preserves original furnishings, irrigation artefacts and local history displays, illustrating the establishment of Australia's first irrigation colony and the Riverland's horticultural development.

Visitors can expect a guided tour of the single-storey pise homestead with period rooms, original furniture and personal effects of the Chaffey family, plus a small museum displaying irrigation equipment, photographs and Riverland memorabilia. The property is set among mature olive trees planted in the 1880s, with gardens, outbuildings and interpretive displays explaining the Chaffey irrigation scheme and early settlement life on the Murray River.