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MT MITCHELL HOMESTEAD AND STABLES
3056 SUNRAYSIA HIGHWAY LEXTON, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H0312Mount Mitchell Homestead at Lexton was designed by the prominent architect Charles Webb and built in 1860-61 for the Robertson family to replace an earlier homestead. Webb (1821-98) was one…
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973 ERCILDOUN ROAD ERCILDOUNE, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H0313Brothers Thomas and Somerville Learmonth founded Ercildoun in 1838. The brothers had been part of an unsuccessful exploration mission into the interior of the colony in 1837, and embarked on…
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5945 GLENELG HIGHWAY CARRANBALLAC, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H0424The large station property Carranballac, Skipton, was settled by the pastoralist Andrew Chirnside, who arrived in Australia from Scotland in 1841. With his brother Thomas, Andrew prospered…
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3802 GEELONG ROAD STOCKYARD HILL, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H0563Mawallok (also spelt Mawallock, Mahkwallok and Mawhallock) station of about 28,000 acres (now 5,851 acres) was acquired by Alexander Russell and Co. in 1847 and remained in the Russell…
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643 MAIN LEAD ROAD RAGLAN, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H0644In about 1858, James Frazer Watkin, an English engineer occupied land on a Miner’s Right near the Mount Cole to Mitchell’s Gully water race at Raglan. J. F. Watkin had been involved in…
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NUMBER ONE LEAD GOLD MINING PRECINCT
LEVERS LANE PERCYDALE, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H1238The Number One Lead Gold Mining Precinct is an excellent and unusual example of shallow sinkings for alluvial gold. The site consists of the relics of mines in open country fronting Number…
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RAGGEDY LEAD GOLD MINING PRECINCT
FARNSWORTH TRACK WARRENMANG, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H1240The Raggedy Lead Gold Mining Precinct is an excellent and unusual example of shallow sinkings for alluvial gold. The site consists of the relics of mines and campsites including the remnants…
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BLACKBURN TRACK MAIN LEAD, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H1250The Tipperary Gully Gold Puddling Site consists of the remnants of six puddling machines complete with dumps of washed pebbles, the associated water race and a patch of shallow sinkings.…
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85 HIGH STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H1460The Avoca Court House is a small, single-storey brick structure built in 1858-59 in response to rapid and substantial population growth generated by the rush for alluvial gold in Avoca in…
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NAPIER STREET AND CAMP STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H1548The Powder Magazine, Avoca, built in 1860, is part of a larger justice precinct designed by the Public Works Department and includes the court house (1859), police residence (1859) and…
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118 BARNETT STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H1622Avoca Primary School was built in 1878 to provide accommodation for the growing number of children in the region. From the 1850s the growth of Avoca was greatly affected by the gold rush and…
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6 DAVEY STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H1660Lock-up, Avoca, forms part of a complex including a court house, police magazine and residence. The lock-up was constructed in 1867, presumably to the designs of the public works department…
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6 DAVEY STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H1661The Former Police Residence, Avoca, built in 1859, is part of a larger justice precinct designed by the Public Works Department and includes the court house (1859), powder magazine (1860) and…
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13-15 YORK AVENUE AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H1721Avoca Railway Station was constructed in 1876 by J Summerland, on the Avoca-Maryborough line for the Victorian Railways. It consists of a hip roofed, red brick station building and residence…
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BAXTER LEAD ALLUVIAL GOLD MINING PRECINCT
BAXTER TRACK WATERLOO, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H1763The Baxter Lead Alluvial Gold Mining precinct contains the remnants of five small-scale deep lead mines. Working at the head or commencement of Baxter Gully, the deep lead miners were working…
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PYRENEES HIGHWAY BUNG BONG, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H1846The old Glenmona Bridge is situated beside the modern bridge at the Bet Bet Creek crossing of the Pyrenees Highway at the site of the old Bung Bong township. It is a continuous wrought-iron…
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LAKE GOLDSMITH STEAM PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION, 1234 CARNGHAM-LAKE GOLDSMITH ROAD LAKE GOLDSMITH, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H1918The Bucyrus Railroad Steam Shovel, manufactured in 1903 by The Bucyrus Co, South Milwaukee and located at Geelong Cement's Batesford quarry, Fyansford is a rail-mounted, fixed-platform,…
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791 CARNGHAM-LINTON ROAD SNAKE VALLEY, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H2007By 1908 the Snake Valley/Carngham Methodists were seeking to replace their existing church which was dilapidated and too small for their requirements. The Honourable Philip Russell, a local…
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MOUNT BUANGOR STATE PARK BAYINDEEN AND MOUNT BUANGOR STATE PARK RAGLAN, ARARAT RURAL CITY, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H2018Kozminsky's mill and log chute is a rare surviving example of a large sawmill and log delivery system which operated during the early period of Victorian timber-getting. Marks Kozminsky…
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HUTCHINGS TRACK RAGLAN, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H2020The Glut log chute is a rare surviving example of a log delivery system which operated during the early period of Victorian sawmilling. The chute was constructed by Charles Tunbridge around…
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16 DUNDAS STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H2199Watford Cottage in Dundas Street, Avoca is a two storey timber framed weatherboard clad prefabricated house imported into Geelong from Hamburg and erected in Avoca in 1856. The town of Avoca…
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NEILL STREET (WESTERN HIGHWAY) AND HAVELOCK STREET BEAUFORT, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H2253The Beaufort Band Rotunda was designed by the Ballarat architectural firm Clegg & Miller and built by Stevenson Brothers in 1903 for a cost of about £300. The Beaufort Brass Band…
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460 PERCYDALE ROAD PERCYDALE, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H2280Daly's Cottage, Percydale, comprises a combined cottage and stable building and a separate dwelling, constructed of vertical timber slabs in the mid-1860s on land selected by James…
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