The story of the White Hart Inn is one of connecting people across time and distance. In its day, it was a wayside inn which provided refuge and rest for travellers journeying by horse and coach between colonies across NSW in the mid-19th century. It was rediscovered in 2013, after Transport for NSW conducted test excavations of the area as part of the Sydney Metro Northwest project, revealing the inn and its assemblage of objects. The White Hart Inn was constructed in 1827, between the colonies of Windsor and Parramatta, and acted as a community centre for locals, as well as servicing and accommodating travellers. The expansion of railway routes in the 1860s brought about a general decline in halfway houses and may have contributed to the closure of the White Hart, which stopped functioning as an inn in 1874. However, it was the development of more railways in the 21st century which brought about the rediscovery of the site, and uncovered a window from the present day into what life in Kellyville was like nearly 200 years ago.