Agst, a local politician and Protestant organiser, had begun caring for neglected children in his own home in 1938, with his wife Rosetta. He purchased the Sunnylands property in in 1948. It was 100 acres and remained in use as a dairy farm until building started. The first sod was turned and the foundation stone was laid in 1954. In June 1955 the Farm House opened.
Shortly after it opened Sunnylands received a contingent of British child migrant boys. Hundreds of young people spent time at Sunnylands over its time as a home.
Sunnylands was supported with a tearooms, run by the UPA Women's Auxiliary, for local farmers. It closed in 1990.
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