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Mount Blackwood Hotel Ruins (Drury's Hotel)

Other Name

Mt Blackwood Hotel (Drury's Hotel)

Location

CA36 Sec7 Mount Blackwood Road PENTLAND HILLS, MOORABOOL SHIRE

Level

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Derelict ruin
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Derelict ruin

Statement of Significance

The ruin of an ashlar bluestone and sandstone hotel building, built in 1864, on the route to the Mt Blackwood gold fields. Various related landscape elements potentially of this period, survive.

It is of local historical significance as a representative embodiment of a way of life and the social values of the 1860s and for its association with a significant event, the rush for gold. It has scientific significance for its archaeological research potential as a cultural research document. It retains social significance as a landmark known and valued by the community for orientation.

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