Campbell Town, statue of the Eliza Forlong. She left Glasgow, Scotland for Saxony in 1826. She set out alone and on foot to buy the best Saxon Merino stock she could find, with the intention of moving her family to Australia. As she selected her sheep, she placed a collar on each of them and paid a gold sovereign (reportedly carried in the hem of her skirts). She travelled twice more to Europe with her sons selecting stud sheep. The family were granted land in 1829, near Campbell Town and the original bloodlines of her flock in Tasmania still produce some of the world’s finest wool.