HENDERSON'S PIGGERY & WHARF
1 HOPKINS STREET FOOTSCRAY, MARIBYRNONG CITY
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Statement of Significance
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HENDERSON'S PIGGERY & WHARF - History
On this site once stood a wharf that serviced Samuel Henderson's Piggery, which produced bacons and smallgoods from 1870-2. Gill's lithograph shows a single wharf servicing the river frontage of the property, and it appears that this structure predates the later additions built they were referred to collectively as the Footscray Wharves.HENDERSON'S PIGGERY & WHARF - Interpretation of Site
Peter Somerville provided photographs of work undertaken in the late 1980's extending from the Port Phillip Mills Wharf south to the end of Henderson's Piggery Wharf, where sections of the original wharfing was removed to the waterline and beaching placed over the top of the wharf ties, and this is also confirmed by Haffenden (1987:19). It is clear that extensive sections of wharf piles and foundations are buried under the current foreshore pathway and beaching, and are probably part of the Footscray Wharves. It is possible that remnants of the earlier Henderson's Wharf still lie on the riverbed. The wharf predates the construction of the main Footscray wharves. Examination of Gills 1873 painting reveals that it was probably one of the first wharves in the area, and as such, it has significance as an early maritime infrastructure facility.
Heritage Inventory Description
HENDERSON'S PIGGERY & WHARF - Heritage Inventory Description
Sections of timber sheet piling are still evident at low tide along the beaching along with some sections of circular timber lined drains.
Piles and archaeological deposits probably still exist beneath landfill on the river bank.
Archeological Potential:
Good
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FOOTSCRAY RAILWAY STATION COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Register H1563
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HENDERSON HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0183
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ERCILDOUNEVictorian Heritage Register H0494
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