War historian Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean and his secretarial staff occupied the 65 acre property, residing in the homestead and other cottages on the site from October 1919 until April 1925. The team of historians, draftsmen and secretaries recorded the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914 – 1918. In 1921 Bean and his associates built a cricket pitch (now the oldest concrete pitch in Canberra) and established the tradition of regular cricket and tennis matches at the Homestead. While living at Tuggeranong Charles Bean married Ethel Young, a nurse from Queanbeyan. He was transferred in 1925 to Victoria Barracks where he completed further volumes of the work over the ensuing decades.
