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450 NEPEAN HIGHWAY MOUNT MARTHA, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE
VHR H0320This pastoral run was taken up in 1840 by the prominent gentleman colonist Captain James Reid, who called it Checkingurk (or Tichingorook). Georgiana McCrae sketched the property in 1844. In…
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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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430-440 HIGH STREET KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0049Boroondara Cemetery, established in 1858, is within an unusual triangular reserve bounded by High Street, Park Hill Road and Victoria Park, Kew. The caretaker's lodge and administrative…
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114 COOPERS ROAD HARCOURT NORTH, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H2127What is significant Blight's Quarry, opened in 1862 and located on the north-east lower slopes of Mt Alexander, consists of an eight metre high and 90 metres wide upper quarry face with…
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80 MERCER STREET QUEENSCLIFF, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH
VHR H1177Warringah (formerly El Tambo) was constructed c1860 for Thomas Howard Fellows, who had purchased the land in 1857. It is a single storey house of stuccoed sandstone with hipped slate roof…
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CHURCHILL ISLAND, BASS COAST SHIRE
VHR H1614 H7921-0002Churchill Island, Westernport Bay off Phillip Island, includes the entire island and linking timber bridge, with all buildings and objects located on it. The island was first 'settled' by…
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BATTERY ROAD WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY
VHR H1811From the 1850s to the turn of the century a series of coastal defensive works were built in the Colony of Victoria in response to a perceived threat of attack from hostile warships. The…
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BLOWHOLES GOLD DIVERSION TUNNEL
BLOWHOLE TRACK HEPBURN AND DRY DIGGINGS TRACK BASALT, HEPBURN SHIRE
VHR H1259The Blowholes Gold Diversion Tunnel is a creek diversion which was probably built in the early 1860s when Jim Crow Creek was being extensively worked by European and Chinese miners. The…
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MAGPIE CREEK GOLD MINING DIVERSION SLUICE
KIBELL LANE WOORAGEE, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H1253The Magpie Creek Gold Mining Diversion Sluice consists of a 200 metre long stone embankment which was probably built in the mid 1860s when the site was extensively reworked by Chinese…
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FORMER NEWSTEAD SHIRE CHAMBERS
116-118 MAIN ROAD CAMPBELLS CREEK, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1367STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: The former Newstead Shire Chambers on the Castlemaine-Guildford at Campbell's Creek was constructed in the 1860s as a toll house in the town. One…
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NEW MOON QUARTZ GOLD MINE SITES
BEELZEBUB GULLY ROAD SAILORS GULLY, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H1366The New Moon Quartz Gold Mining Sites consists of two large mines - South New Moon and New Moon - both containing an array of mining machinery foundations. The mines, after very indifferent…
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ROSE THISTLE AND SHAMROCK QUARRY GOLD MINING PRECINCT
CEMETERY LANE HARRIETVILLE, ALPINE SHIRE
VHR H1758The Rose Thistle & Shamrock mine was the largest recorded gold-producer and had the deepest workings in the Upper Ovens gold field. The mine was worked almost constantly from 1860 until…
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RED ROBIN GOLD MINE AND BATTERY
WEST KIEWA LOGGING TRACK AND MACHINERY SPUR TRACK HOTHAM HEIGHTS, ALPINE SHIRE
VHR H1881Throughout the 1930s, in the most elevated part of the Australian Alps the country lying between Mt Hotham and Mt Feathertop known as the Kiewa fall a lone miner named William Spargo…
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REAR OF 301 PRINCES HIGHWAY HOPPERS CROSSING AND 1245 SAYERS ROAD TARNEIT AND OFF SPRINGHILL ROAD EYNESBURY, WYNDHAM CITY
VHR H1957The Geodetic Survey of Victoria, established in the 1860s was a triangulated survey which took into account accurate calculations of the curvature of the earth's surface. The principles of…
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57-59 FOREST STREET BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H2197The brick garden walls at 57-59 Forest Street Bendigo, originally surrounding the house owned by local barrister and commander of the Sandhurst Volunteer Rifle Corps, Captain John Lysaght,on…
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TOEDTBERG ROAD AND TWO CHAIN ROAD COLBINABBIN, CAMPASPE SHIRE
VHR H1937The Colbinabbin Community Well consists of a raised earth-filled platform retained by notched logs along with remains of decking. Angled above the well is a whip pole. Nearby are remnants of…
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FORMER PLEASANT CREEK COURT HOUSE
46-48 LONGFIELD STREET STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H0998The former Pleasant Creek Court House, built in 1859, is identified by Court Houses in Victoria A Survey as the best and most intact example of four identically planned court houses in the…
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77 MOUNT VIEW ROAD THOMASTOWN, WHITTLESEA CITY
VHR H1212Siebel's Farmhouse was erected in 1860 by Johann Gottlob Siebel and replaced an earlier one in which he had lived since first settling in Thomastown in 1850. The cottage is constructed of…
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EBENEZER MISSION ROAD DIMBOOLA, HINDMARSH SHIRE
VHR H0288The Ebenezer mission site and its complex of buildings, footings and cemetery are of great social, historical, archaeological and architectural significance to the state of Victoria and are…
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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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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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FORMER CHRISTOPHER CRISP RESIDENCE
10 GISBORNE ROAD AND 10 CHURCH STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H0505The Former Christopher Crisp Residence includes a c.1860 single-storey cottage of rendered brick with a south-facing verandah; an 1868 adjoining single-storey dwelling with a slate roof and…
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9 LYDIARD STREET NORTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY
VHR H0110The Former ES&A Bank, Ballarat, a two-storey Renaissance Revival style building, designed c.1860 by Leonard Terry, erected on a bluestone base with a central recessed colonnaded section…
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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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26 FINCH STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H0352The Residence at 26 Finch Street, Beechworth, which includes a complex of mainly timber buildings constructed in the mid-nineteenth century. These include a two-storey cottage with what was…
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