 Mira Mar contains the Old Farm at Strawberry Hill, which was first a vegetable farm on Plantagenet Location 44 for the military settlement of King George Sound, and then served as the residence of Albany's first Government Resident, Sir Richard Spencer RN, from 1832 until 1839.Spencer's grave is located on the site.Also in Mira Mar is the simple Victorian Georgian house built in 1872 by Matthew Cull, who was the long-time verger at St John's Church in Albany.