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Five Ways

Location Mt Dandenong Tourist Road, Barber's Road, Ridge Road, Old Coach Road (corner), Kalorama VIC 3766 File Number 236 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

Five Ways intersection has high local significance as an important precinct and local landmark. There are superb views from the lookout across to Silvan and the Warburton Ranges. Five Ways has historical significance for its associations with the early coaching and timber working industries, and with prominent district pioneers including Isaac Jeeves and Eliza Hand. The intersection has significance, too, as the location of a former store and post office and of two historic elm trees, which once marked the 1905 gateway to Jeeves' Kalorama Park, as well as the 1923 Peace Memorial in Ellis Jeeves Reserve.