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FORMER RED HILL HOTEL SITE
305 & 307 MAIN ROAD GOLDEN POINT, BALLARAT CITY
FORMER RED HILL HOTEL SITE
305 & 307 MAIN ROAD GOLDEN POINT, BALLARAT CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The site is first mapped as Allotment 7 and 8 of Section S on the 1857 Revised Town Plan of Main Street. The site is mapped as a large complex of structures, including a boarding-house, piggery and residence to the east. The site was likely developed as a residential commercial premises throughout the nineteenth century. The Ballarat DEM predicts approximately 2m-3m increase in elevation 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 hotel associated with the beginning of the Victorian gold rush. The later nineteenth century shows the development and likely expansion of the commercial and residential use of the site. 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 the exchange hotel in the gold rush, and later 19th-century activities.
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