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FORMER DOBSONS TIMBER YARD AND RESIDENCE SITE
107 & 113 DOVETON STREET SOUTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY
FORMER DOBSONS TIMBER YARD AND RESIDENCE SITE
107 & 113 DOVETON STREET SOUTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The site is first mapped as Allotment 19 and 20 of Section 13 on the 1852 Municipality of Ballarat Plan with the occupied being listed as Morgan ann Carey. The 1861 Gold Fields Plan shows three structures across the site. In 1864 the site was occupied by Dobson’s Timber Yard and developed as an industrial commercial premises over time, containing a spirit and wine merchant and grocer’s store. In the twentieth century the site developed as a carpenters and joinery until it was redeveloped into an asphalt car park.
How is it significant?
The site is of historical and archaeological significance.
Why is it significant?
The site is of local historical significance as the location of a timber yard and residence 1860s and 1870s. The later nineteenth century shows commercial development across the site, becoming a carpenters and joinery in the twentieth century, until the sites demolition. The site is of archaeological significance due to its potential to contain artefacts, deposits and features that relate to the establishment of commercial operations and as an early residence in Ballarat West in the gold rush, as well as its later 19th-century activities and a grocer and wine merchant.
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