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REMOUNT DEPOT BARRACKS AND STABLES

Location

MARIBYRNONG EXPLOSIVES FACTORY, CORDITE AVENUE MARIBYRNONG, MARIBYRNONG CITY

File Number

HER/1999/0000224

Level

Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

STATE (AGAINST CRITERIA A, C, D, F, & G). THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE SITES STEMS FROM THEIR ASSOCIATED WITH EARLY EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT IN THE 1840S AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF HORSE BREEDING AND THE RACING INDUSTRY IN VICTORIA. THE EQUESTRIAN USE OF THE SITE CONTINUED UNTIL 1945 WITH THE ACTIVITY OF THE REMOUNT DEPOT. THE AREA ALSO CONTAINS THE "FISHER STABLES", PREVIOUSLY ASSESSED AS BEING OF STATE SIGNIFICANCE.

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