BROOMFIELDS LANE
BARTONS LANE LOY YANG, LATROBE CITY
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Statement of Significance
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BROOMFIELDS LANE - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: The site appears to correspond with the allotment taken up by H King in 1880, used as a Dairy and vineyard. The use of unsawn , post and rail fencing probably indicates that the fences date to the initial clearance of the area, when timber was still being cleared, Sawn timber was available from a sawmill on sheepwash Creek as early as the late 1860s (Huffer: 1979)
BROOMFIELDS LANE - Interpretation of Site
Heritage Inventory Interpretation: Local tradition has it that this was the site of a camp or market gardens of Chinese workers employed to drain swamps in the area during Selection. It appears more likely that it was the location of "H. King's" allotment (see History). The post and rail fence may well have enclosed a vineyard or dairy paddock the agricultural machinery appears to date from the turn of the Century.
Heritage Inventory Description
BROOMFIELDS LANE - Heritage Inventory Description
Former location of an 1870s allotment used for dairying and a vineyard some visible traces of historical agriculture.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Possibly the only upstanding remains dating to the first Selection in the area, and therefore of moderate significance.
Heritage Inventory Site Features: Post and rail enclosure, early agricultural machinery, fruit tree plantation, timber track. A large plantation including mature exotic fruit trees local information indicated the presence of a ruined hut, but no trace was observed. Large mature Cedar. Scatter of late nineteenth/early twentieth century pottery amongst the roots. Collapsed tin shed containing two pieces of early twentieth century agricultural machinery (thresher and bailer). Tracers of post & rail enclosure. Timber cauderoy track from Banool.
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BROOMFIELDS LANEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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