MT BLACKWOOD HOTEL SITE
MT BLACKWOOD ROAD KOROBEIT, MOORABOOL SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
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MT BLACKWOOD HOTEL SITE - History
The Mt. Blackwood Hotel was built in 1864 for John Drury, a shrewd businessman. wbo knew the appeal of strong liquor for miners en route to the Mt. Blackwood goldfields. Other licensees included Elizabeth Drury ( 1905-07) and William Drury (1907-ll), wife md son respectively of John Drury. In 1911, the hotel was delicensed, with compensation of £230 (S460) paid.The Mt. Blackwood Hotel was destroyed by fire in February 1921.
The Mt Blackwood Hotel originally served both the local community of farms on the basalt plains of the northem Pentland Hills and miners on the Lerderderg River. The hotel was also known as Drury's Hotel. The Hotel was also a point of supply for the miners of the Lerderderg Gorge who would receive groceries and other commodities which they would then card down into the gorge.
MT BLACKWOOD HOTEL SITE - Historical Significance
It is of local historical significance as a representative embodiment of a way of life and the social values ofthe 1860s and for its association with a significant event, the rush for gold.
MT BLACKWOOD HOTEL SITE - Archaeological Significance
The site is of medium archaeological significance as it may contain features and relics associated with the first occupation of the building in 1864.
MT BLACKWOOD HOTEL SITE - Interpretation of Site
The Mt Blackwood Hotel originally served both the local community of farmers on the basalt plains of the northem Pentland Hills and miners on the Lerderderg River. The hotel was also known as Drury's Hotel. The Hotel was also a point of supply for the miners of the Lerderderg Gorge who would receive groceries and other commodities which they would then card down into the gorge. 3
Heritage Inventory Description
MT BLACKWOOD HOTEL SITE - Heritage Inventory Description
A ruin, of ashlar bluestone with sandstone dressings. It consists of the left hand half of a room with a fireplace in the centre of the side wall. The chimney is dressed sandstone with a capping mould.
The remainder of the building is easily recognisable from footings and piles of fallen wall stone, although a considerable amount of original stone has been removed from the site. Two circular, stone-lined wells are near the northern side of the ruin, one of which has been filled with rubble. Several garden and landscape features remain. At left, Hawthorn hedges form yards around the ruins and a larger paddock to the south .
Other features include a pile of stone and brick near the south west comer of the main building, probably from a detached kitchen. Two collapsed stone structures about twenty five metres uonh-west ofthe main building, which may have been stables or other outbuildings. a large circular paved area about thirty metres to the west. This last feature is unusual. ft comprises a platform paved -with large basalt field boulders, with a rectangular space two by one metres in the centre and a narrower trench on the western side. It is unclear what this was for, but it may have been some form of stockyard, or very possibly, the site of a horse works, for driving some form of machinery, such as a chaff cutter. A large earth dam lies a fimher fifty metres to the south-west.
Landscape. The paddock adjacent ro the ruin is surrounded by a Hawthorn hedge (Craraegus monogyna), a widely used hedge species used in Victoria, as it is in England. Trees are clumped near the gate on the north side, and there is a backdrop of one extremely good Pinus sp. and Poplar.
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MT BLACKWOOD HOTEL SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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Mount Blackwood Hotel Ruins (Drury's Hotel)Moorabool Shire
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