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FORMER MAIR STREET EAST RESIDENTIAL SITE
MAIR STREET EAST BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY
FORMER MAIR STREET EAST RESIDENTIAL SITE
MAIR STREET EAST BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The site is first mapped as Section N on the 1859 Revised Town Plan of Peel and Mair Street. The site comprises eleven structures fronting Mair Street Ballarat. The site was likely developed as a residential commercial premises throughout the later nineteenth century. The Ballarat DEM predicts approximately +2m in elevation increase from 1858.
How is it significant?
The site is of historical and archaeological significance.
Why is it significant?
The site is of historical significance as the location of an early residence and commercial precinct during the years of the Victorian gold rush – one of the most significant rushes in world history. The site is of archaeological significance due to its potential to contain artefacts, deposits and features that relate to the establishment of commercial operations in the gold rush, and other later 19th-century commercial activities.
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