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Berry's Creek Avenue of Honour

Other Name

Berry's Creek Road

Location

Berry's Creek Road BERRYS CREEK, South Gippsland Shire

File Number

Original Hermes No: 30377

Level

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
The Berry's Creek Honour Avenue, originally planted in June 1918 with later replacements and additions, in Berry's Creek Road.

Why is it Significant?
The Berry's Creek Honour Avenue is of local historic, social and aesthetic significance to the district of Berry's Creek.

Historically and socially, the Avenue is important as the first of a series of World War 1 memorial avenues established throughout the former Woorayl Shire, presumably in response to the initiative of the Victorian State Recruiting Committee. It expresses the significant effect of World War 1 upon the Berry's Creek community and the desire to erect a suitable memorial. (AHC criteria - A.4, D.2, and G.1) Aesthetically, despite its diminished size and somewhat poor condition, the Avenue is an important part of the character and identity of Berry's Creek. It marks the entrance to Berry's Creek from the Strzelecki Highway and provides an appropriate setting for the School and Hall, which are focal to the identity of the district. (AHC criterion - E.1)

Group

Monuments and Memorials