DALHOUSIE TOWNSHIP PRECINCT
TARADALE-METCALFE ROAD TARADALE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
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DALHOUSIE TOWNSHIP PRECINCT - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: This area was first distinguished on a map by Archdale, the Mining Surveyor, dated 29 August 1870. It shows "Hollywell's Paddock" where later cadastral maps (1876) identified S.O.Holywell as the landowner. W. Bone owned the land to the north of "Hollywell's Paddock". Both of these areas are north of the present Taradale - Metcalfe Road, on the west side of Diss Lane. In 1885 the area south of Hollywell's Paddock was gazetted as a township. W. Todd purchased many of the allotments over several years from 1885. The house at the end of Diss Road, which is still inhabited, was lived in by Frederick Diss, miner, in 1868. The rates books of the Borough of Taradale identified the house as "House, Holywell's, Diss Lane." Frederick's father arrived in 1855 and was employed by the government surveyor, William Urquhart. Frederick lived in the family home and married in 1876. The house passed to his son Thomas who lived there at least to the 1930s. To the north-west of this house is a levelled area, which indicates a house site. There are scattered bricks and the possible traces of foundations and remnants of a garden. This site is located on land originally purchased by W. Bone, and may date to the 1870s. In the south-west corner of the township area, just to the north-west of Todd's Bridge, was allotment 9v, purchased in 1885 (?) by Ann Todd. A hotel, known as Todd's Hotel, or the Coliban Hotel, was located on this allotment (Maltby 1989: 28). Stone and brick foundations and two large oak trees mark the site.Heritage Inventory Description
DALHOUSIE TOWNSHIP PRECINCT - Heritage Inventory Description
The site today is identified as the Township of Dalhousie. There is on extant house, still inhabited, that dates to circa 1869, known as the "Diss House". Opposite this house is a shearing shed. To the north of the house, in an open paddock, is a levelled house site with some foundations possibly remaining. The foundations of a hotel and two large oak trees remain in the south-west corner of the precinct, north-west of Todd's Bridge. There may be other archaeological remains within the precinct.
Heritage Inventory Significance: High (9) archaeological significance. Several in situ deposits occur in the precinct and there is a high likelihood that others will be found. The hotel site (Todd's Hotel) is relatively undisturbed. The site is of high local historical significance. The town was adjacent to gold mining areas that were worked during the 1860s and 1870s. William Todd, whose wife ran the hotel, was a miner, as was Frederick Diss. At least three generations of the Diss family have lived in the house, although the family no longer owns it. Both Todd and Diss have given their names to local features. Although the site was proclaimed a township in 1885, and reproclaimed in 1954, it is unlikely that it was ever heavily populated.
Recorded by: Andrea Murphy, Jeremy Smith
Heritage Inventory Site Features: - house near the north end of Diss Road on a 14 x 9 metre flat terrace cut into the hillside. There are scattered brick and stone fragments on site, but nothing in situ. Two fruit trees are in the vicinity. - standing shearing shed at the north end of Diss Road, well preserved with largely original fittings. - Huck's miner's cottage (partly restored), a large stone construction, with interior Balkan pine roof. -Todd's hotel site, consisting of two oak trees, a small shed foundation and a levelled area with exotic flowers. - Diss Road, which was probably the old Dalhousie main road.
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