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Meeniyan and Stony Creek WWI Memorial

Location Whitelaw Street MEENIYAN, South Gippsland Shire File Number Original Hermes No: 30902 Level -

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Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
The Meeniyan & Stony Creek World War 1 memorial, constructed in 1923, at Whitelaw Street, Meeniyan.

Why is it Significant?
The Meeniyan & Stony Creek World War 1 memorial is of local historic, social and aesthetic significance to the township and district of Meeniyan.

Historically and socially, it was the first monument erected in the former Woorayl Shire and along with the Honour Avenue demonstrates the profound impact of the First World War upon small rural towns in the Shire. (AHC criteria - A.4 and D.2) Aesthetically, it is a locally superior example of a war memorial, and the best of only three examples in the Shire situated within an Honour Avenue. It is an important and focal part of the streetscape of Meeniyan. (AHC criterion - E.1)