Historical Locations | FAQ
Historical Locations | FAQ - Location: Place | Venue - Around Melbourne
--> Deep Creek Road, Mitcham
Schwerkolt Cottage is an original pioneer's stone cottage in a garden setting adjoining beautiful Yarran Dheran bushland park. August Schwerkolt, a German-born pioneer, was one of the first...
--> Royal Botanic Gardens | Melbourne, Birdwood Avenue South Yarra
The Separation Tree in the Royal Botanic Gardens was the location where the citizens of Victoria gathered on 15 November 1850 to celebrate the news of the separation of Victoria from New South...
--> Corner St Kilda Road and Domain Road Melbourne
The Shrine of Remembrance was built between 1928 and 1934 in remembrance of those 114,000 men and women of Victoria who served and those who died in the Great War of 1914-1918. 89,100 of them served...
--> Melbourne
A recent exhibition in Melbourne displayed a collection of Melbourne signs in a tradition of eclecticism and openness. Over 150 years of Melbourne street signs, billboards, posters and typefaces...
--> 651-653 Victoria Street Abbotsford
One of Melbourne's most well known and loved icons, 'Little Audrey' the Skipping Girl Vinegar sign is skipping again after being restored in 2009 to its former shining glory. The animated neon...
--> 8 Emmeline Row, Rowville
The magnificent Stamford Park Homestead was built in 1882 by the entrepreneurial Row family as a Gentleman's Residence. After many years of neglect, the homestead and six acres of grounds have...
--> Shed 2 North Wharf Rd, Docklands
The historic steam tug Wattle was launched at Cockatoo Island in 1933 and worked with the Royal Australian Navy until 1969, then Wattle arrived in Melbourne in 1979 to become an iconic sight steaming...
--> 30 Yarra Street, Hawthorn
Built in Hawthorn in 1889, Tay Creggan is considered one of Australia's most important houses. "Tay Creggan" - the house on the rocks - is the fantastical building of gables, dormers, turrets and...
--> 282 Collins Street Melbourne
The Block Arcade is a heritage shopping arcade experience in the centre of Melbourne but going back a hundred years it was the "place to be seen". Located in the heart of Melbourne's CBD, the...
--> 450 Nepean Hwy Mount Martha
The Briars Park is the Mornington Peninsula Shire's foremost property, and a beautiful example of 'Cultural Landscape', with a long history of Aboriginal occupation, followed by European occupation...
--> Western Australia
The Emu War was a real event in 1932 where the Australian military was deployed in Western Australia to deal with a large population of emus destroying crops. The military operation was largely...
--> 140 Aphrasia Street Newtown
Prefabricated in Hamburg, Germany, the Heights was erected in 1854 and is the largest dwelling of its kind in Victoria. Owned by three generations of the one family; bequeathed to the National...
--> 140 Aphrasia St Newtown
Prefabricated in Hamburg, Germany, the Heights was erected in 1854 and is the largest dwelling of its kind in Victoria. Owned by three generations of the one family; bequeathed to the National...
--> 94 Alexandra Parade Clifton Hill
The largest shot tower in Australia is a unique reminder of industrial ammunitions history. At 263 feet tall, Clifton Hill Shot Tower vies with Taroona Shot Tower as the tallest in the world....
--> 28/34 Clarendon St, Southbank
28/34 Clarendon St, Southbank The Robur Tea House was built in 1887 and is today a persisting example of 19th century architecture and one of the few remaining traces of the industrial...
--> The Twelve Apostles Port Campbell
The Twelve Apostles is a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of the Port Campbell National Park, by the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. Their proximity to one another has made the...
--> Victoria Police Memorial, St Kilda Road, Kings Domain
Kings Domain Gardens Opened in 2002, the Victoria Police Memorial situated in Kings Domain Gardens, Melbourne, stands as a dedication and constant reminder of the service provided by those brave...
--> High Street, Seymour
The Vietnam Veterans Commemorative Walk is the only one of its kind in Australia dedicated to all Vietnam Veterans. The walk has been created to symbolise the heroic 60,000 service men and women who...
--> 44 Walmer Street Kew
Situated in Walmer St Kew, The Villa Alba Museum is one of the finest examples of 19th Century interior decoration marked by the unique and opulent hand painted murals that line the interior walls...
--> Moe-Walhalla Road Walhalla
The remains of the gold mining town of Walhalla are situated in a steep narrow mountain valley in Gippsland, about 185 km east of Melbourne. In late 1862 alluvial gold was discovered here by a...
--> 62 High St, Wedderburn
The General Store Museum is Wedderburn's original goldfields shop with products from the gold rush era, including a coach builder's workshop with the original blacksmith forge and horse drawn buggies...
--> K Road Werribee
Discover the Victorian era in Australia with a visit to beautiful Chirnside Mansion better known as Werribee Park Mansion. Werribee Mansion was completed by wealthy pastoralists, the Chirnside...
--> K Road Werribee
Discover the Victorian era in Australia with a visit to beautiful Chirnside Mansion better known as Werribee Park Mansion. Werribee Mansion was completed by wealthy pastoralists, the Chirnside...
--> 100 Gardenia Road, Thomastown
Westgarthtown is an historic dairy farming settlement sixteen kilometres north of Melbourne established in 1850 by German and Wendish immigrants. Although now located within the residential...
--> Woodlands Drive Greenvale
Woodlands Historic Park is the home of Living Legends - The International Home of Rest for Champion Horses. Woodlands Historic Park totals over 700 hectares (1730 acres). It was first established...
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