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Kardella Avenue of Honour

Other Name Kardella-Fairbank Road Kardella Location Kardella-Fairbank Road KARDELLA, South Gippsland Shire File Number Original Hermes No: 30648 Level -

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Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
The Kardella Avenue of Honour, established c.1919, at Kardella-Fairbank Road, Kardella Why is it Significant?
The Kardella Avenue of Honour is of local historic, social, and aesthetic significance to the district of Kardella.

Historically and socially, the Avenue is important as one of a series of honour avenues and other memorials that were established throughout Shire after World War 1, which demonstrate the effect of this conflict upon small rural communities. As many of the original buildings associated with Kardella have now vanished, it is an important reminder of the early settlement of this area. (AHC criteria - A.4, D.2 and G.1) Aesthetically, the now mature trees enhance the setting of Kardella. (AHC criterion - E.1)