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Bicentennial Commemorative Plaque
Off Hamilton Highway FYANSFORD, Greater Geelong City

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Statement of Significance
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Statement of Significance

C Listed - Local Significance

The Bicentennial Commemorative Plaque and bluestone rock is historically significant at a Local level for its association with the local citizens celebration of the Bicentennial event (A4) and as a representative site of the high diversity of cultural use of the land in Fyansford, since white settlement in 1837. (A3) Overall, the Bicentennial Commemorative Plaque and bluestone rock is of Local Significance.

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1. Information on the Monument.

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- Physical Description 1
  
  Bicentennial Commemorative Plaque - Physical Description 1
  
  The plaque is fixed onto an untoolled section of locally quarried bluestone, which is resting on the ground, The bronze plaque is recessed into a broad face of the rock. The plaque was erected by the local citizens and their elected local government, to celebrate Australia's Bicentennial of white settlement.
- Bicentennial Commemorative Plaque
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- FROGMORE
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H0696
- "Frogmore", house and outbuildings
  
  Greater Geelong City H0696
- Old Fyansford Bridge (Bridge over Moorabool River 1900)
  
  Greater Geelong City H1108