Carwoola Homestead, Colonial homestead in Southern Tablelands, Australia

Carwoola Homestead is a two-storey homestead of the best materials with a verandah around three sides, built by William and Thomas Rutledge in the late 1830s on river flats bisected by the Molonglo River. The complex includes a store, post office, telegraph office and several cottages for employed hands.

Edward John Eyre built slab dwellings on the land and sold 1,260 acres to Henry Gilbert Smith in 1834; William Rutledge bought the property in 1836 and his brother Thomas took over as manager in 1839. The surviving buildings were raised by William and Thomas in the late 1830s, and by 1877 Carwoola and Gidleigh together covered 90,000 acres. Thomas died in 1904 and lies in the graveyard of St. Thomas' Anglican Church.

The name Carwoola, used since at least 1850, probably derives from Carrowillah, an Aboriginal term for "the meeting of the waters on the plain" — fitting, as Primrose Creek joins the Molonglo River northeast of St. Thomas' Anglican Church. Thomas Rutledge, who died in 1904, lies in that churchyard with his wife Martha.

The property sits near Captains Flat Road and is surrounded by open agricultural land. The Southern Tablelands have changeable weather, so visitors should prepare for cool temperatures and wind at any time of year.

Thomas and Martha Rutledge lie in the graveyard of St. Thomas' Anglican Church, built 1872–4 on land he donated and consecrated in 1876. Rev. Alberto Soares designed it, and its east window showing St. Thomas and Christ was given in 1873 by Sir Edward Knox, founder of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., and his wife Martha, Thomas's sister. The iron roof and steeple are visible from Carwoola's second gate, 2 km away.