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House, 6 Gisborne Road

Location 6 Gisborne Road BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

An early brick house, built about 1860 for George Lane, first printer of the Bacchus Marsh Express newspaper (1866). It is part of a group of three buildings (also refs : 193 & 194) associated with the newspaper. It was owned by the Lane family for 124 years. This house is of state historical significance as part of a group associated with the then important and influential Bacchus Marsh Express. The Express, through its forceful intelligent editor Christopher Crisp, was influential on Alfred Deakin and the Australian Federation movement at the end of the nineteenth century. It is a representative embodiment of a way of life and associated with an industrial process, newspaper printing and publishing over the period 1865-1899.