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4 WATER STREET CRESWICK, HEPBURN SHIRE
VHR H1511The School of Forestry, the first of its kind in Australia, was established in Creswick in 1909 on a site adjacent to the Victorian State Nursery and Plantation at Saw Pit Gully. Creswick…
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MULLUNGDUNG STATE FOREST, SOUTH GIPPSLAND HIGHWAY DARRIMAN, WELLINGTON SHIRE
VHR H2011The Goodwood Timber and Tramway Company mill was the largest and most capital intensive sawmill to operate in the Yellow Stringybark forests of South Gippsland. It was established in 1910 by…
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SAWPIT ROAD CRESWICK, HEPBURN SHIRE
VHR H1192The Old State Nursery Office is a diminutive two storey timber building, hexagonal in plan with an encircling verandah at both levels. The building was designed by John Johnstone and…
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SOLDIERS ROAD GEMBROOK AND BEENAK ROAD YELLINGBO, CARDINIA SHIRE, YARRA RANGES SHIRE
VHR H2012The Kurth Kiln was constructed by the Forests Commission of Victoria in 1941-42 to produce charcoal for use as a substitute fuel source. Petrol shortages during World War Two created a…
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RICHARDS AND SONS LOGGING WINCH SITE
ROAD 15 MCMAHONS CREEK, YARRA RANGES SHIRE
VHR H1739Richards & Sons carried on logging and sawmilling operations in the Starvation Creek area from 1916 to 1938. Their last steam log winching station was established on Roy Spur c1936. The…
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WEST BARWON TRACK BARRAMUNGA, COLAC OTWAY SHIRE
VHR H1815Henry's No.1 Mill was the largest sawmill in the eastern Otways, operating from 1904-1927. The mill settlement included a boarding house, bakery, store, billiard room, post office and…
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UPPER YARRA WALKING TRACK ADA, BAW BAW SHIRE
VHR H1821The New Federal Mill is a large and multi-faceted sawmill site, with evidence of logging, milling, timber transport and workers’ accommodation. The mill was operated by the Federal Timber…
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GOODWOOD MILL TRACK GENTLE ANNIE, BAW BAW SHIRE
VHR H1819The Lower Goodwood Kilns were constructed in 1931 by Limberlost Lumber Mills, to meet the growing demand in Melbourne for seasoned timber. Forest seasoning kilns are a rare feature in…
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NUNNIONG ROAD NUNNIONG, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H1825The Washington Winch at Nugong is the only high lead/skyline logging system in Victoria which still retains a winch engine and the associated spars and cables. The massive logging engine and…
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SPRING CREEK SAWMILL AND SEASONING WORKS
MOUNT SAMARIA STATE PARK BRIDGE CREEK, BENALLA RURAL CITY, MANSFIELD SHIRE
VHR H1824The Spring Creek sawmill and seasoning works consists of substantial mill foundations, concrete seasoning kilns, outlet tramway and lowering gear foundations. The site was worked by D J…
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BIG CREEK ROAD MCMAHONS CREEK, YARRA RANGES SHIRE
VHR H1822The Old Federal Mill contains the remnants of a technologically innovative sawmill, including concrete machinery foundations, three sawdust heaps, steam winch components, a skyline carriage…
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WALK INTO HISTORY TRACK ADA, BAW BAW SHIRE
VHR H1820The New Ada Mill was operated by the Victorian Hardwood Company from 1931-1942, to exploit the virgin stands of mountain ash on the ridges north of the Ada River. Although the machinery has…
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HARRYS NOSE ROAD CLONBINANE, MITCHELL SHIRE
VHR H1816The Comet Mill represents a rare example from the later nineteenth century of a large sawmill and associated settlement. It operated from 1884 till 1902, and was connected by an outlet…
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OTWAYS STATE FOREST WYELANGTA, COLAC-OTWAY SHIRE
VHR H1818Knott's No.3 Mill was a large and technologically sophisticated sawmill, which operated in the Otway Ranges between 1922 and 1928. The region's first high lead winch system for log…
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OFF WEST BARWON TRACK BARRAMUNGA, COLAC OTWAY SHIRE
VHR H1817Henry's Tramway Tunnel is the most intact tramline tunnel in Victoria. Built around 1911, it provided timber tramline access through a projecting spur between Henry's No.1 and No.2 Mills in…
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ROBBIE ROAD MURRINDINDI, MURRINDINDI SHIRE
VHR H1823Robbies Mill was established at Narbethong in 1934, and operated in its later years as a transition mill where the use of road and tramway technology can be demonstrated side by side. The…
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SAWPIT GULLY NURSERY AND PLANTATION
SAWPIT GULLY ROAD CRESWICK, HEPBURN SHIRE
VHR H1951The Sawpit Gully Plantation contains the site of the first State Nursery established at Creswick in 1888 and a collection of exotic and native trees. The trees were planted under the…
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721 KILMORE ROAD AND 731 KILMORE ROAD AND 14 FLOUR MILL LANE AND 20 FLOUR MILL LANE AND 18 FLOUR MILL LANE AND 26 FLOUR MILL LANE AND 38 FLOUR MILL LANE RIDDELLS CREEK, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE
VHR H2060Smiths Nursery, one of Victoria's earliest plant nurseries, was established in 1863 at Riddells Creek and consists of an area of land to the south of Riddells Creek with the remains of…
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WOMBAT STATE FOREST, OFF PINCHGUT ROAD ROCKLYN, HEPBURN SHIRE
VHR H2014Graves and Fraser's Mill is a well preserved example of a nineteenth-century forest sawmill. It was established by George Graves and Thomas Frazer in the western (Bullarook) end of the…
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REEDY LAKE ROAD BAILIESTON, STRATHBOGIE SHIRE
VHR H2017Cameron's Mill features the remains of a small, steam-driven sawmill located at Reedy Lake, near Nagambie. It was established by Angus Cameron in 1877 and cut mostly red gum, along with…
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LERDERDERG ROAD BLACKWOOD, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H2015Wheeler's tramway, Mount Wilson, is a comparatively intact example of a log tramway formation, located in the Wombat Forest. It was constructed by James H Wheeler around 1878 to provide logs…
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SPLITTERS RANGE ROAD OMEO AND TONGIO, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H2021Peter Ah Sen's Sawmill was among the first mills to be established in the Omeo district, and the only known sawmill in Victoria to have been licensed to a Chinese-born person. The site is…
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WILSONS PROMONTORY, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H2019The Sealers Cove sawmill site includes the remains of two mills, including those from one of the earliest known sawmills in Victoria. Timber splitting commenced at the Cove in 1849, and by…
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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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CAMERON DRIVE MOUNT MACEDON, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE
VHR H2022Barbour's tramway and log chute, constructed around 1856, removed logs from the Mount Macedon plateau down to Robert Barbour's Black Forest Sawmill. The tramway brought logs to the head of a…
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