AMPHITHEATRE STATION GROUND
SCHOOL STREET, AMPHITHEATRE VIC 3468
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Statement of Significance
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AMPHITHEATRE STATION GROUND - History
Gold was discovered in the area in 1853, and a settlement was established at Amphitheatre as a result. It was originally located further south of its current location, in the natural amphitheatre after which it is named. A Post Office opened on 22 June 1859. The Avoca-Ararat railway, which opened in 1890, included a station at Amphitheatre. The station was closed, along with the line, in 1959. Saw mills were located near the station which cut wood taken from the surrounding ranges. Wool was transported to Geelong from a wool store, also near the station. A small shelter shed at the station was constructed, but removed in the 1890s to be replaced by more substantial building which survived up to the 1950s.AMPHITHEATRE STATION GROUND - Interpretation of Site
The station ground formerly contained platforms, waiting shelters, water tanks and a departmental residence. These were all removed when closed in the 1950s, but footing, and other archaeological remains survive.
AMPHITHEATRE STATION GROUND - Historical Significance
Amphitheatre Station ground is of archaeological significance for the potential to reveal information on the structure of small railway stations and patterns of land use and consumption in the period between the 1890s and 1950s. historical significance as evidence of a former gold mining and farming community which underwent dramatic change in the mid-20th century
Heritage Inventory Description
AMPHITHEATRE STATION GROUND - Heritage Inventory Description
Concrete strip footings, brick paving and some timbers are evident flush with the ground on the north side of the railway at the location of the original station buildings. Glass, ceramic, metal and some timber artefacts are visible as a very diffuse surface scatter across the raised platform mounds and adjacent areas. Some depressions at the rear of the platform mounds also have scattered artefacts suggesting rubbish or demolition rubble dumps. Goldmining or prospecting shafts and mullock heaps are present on the southern boundary of the rail reserve.
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Amphitheatre Honour RollVic. War Heritage Inventory
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