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Badger Creek Settlement

Other Name Gracedale Village Settlement (original title), Coranderrk Settlement Location 358 Badger Creek Road, Healesville VIC 3777 File Number 26 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

The former Badger Creek or Gracedale Village Settlement has high local significance as one of two large settlements established within Yarra Ranges Shire in the 1890s. The late 1890s school, which served both village settlers and Aboriginal children from the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve, as well as a Public Hall and 1956 plantings by the Badger Creek Progress Association remain within the boundaries of the old settlement. The long use and active care of this place by the Community Facilities, including the re-location and restoration of buildings demonstrates its high social significance to the Badger Creek Community Facilities.