QUARANTINE GROUND ANCHORAGE

OBSERVATION POINT AND POLICE POINT POINT NEPEAN, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE

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    QUARANTINE GROUND ANCHORAGE - History

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    Heritage Inventory History of Site:
    -former Quarantine Station (1859) on Point Nepean, built following deaths from smallpox on a vessel anchored in nearby Weeroona Bay
    -In the early 1850s a ship entered the bay carrying passengers stricken with yellow fever. Consequently a quarantine station was set up in 1852, just west of the present townsite. Some of the original limestone buildings remain. Survivals from this initial period include five two-storey rendered limestone buildings and a single-storey structure of crudely coursed limestone blocks with a massive limestone chimney.

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