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GARDEN OF THE MANILA MEN

Location SLATY CREEK ROAD CABBAGE TREE, HEPBURN SHIRE Level Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

The site is significant in the way it shows the ethnic diversity of mining settlement and market gardening, and differences in populations that were viewed by most Europeans as all ‘Chinese’. The structure of garden beds here is different to other garden sites in this area (e.g. to the south, near Slaty Creek) where beds are smaller and run in various directions. The larger Ah Youngs Garden to the south on Humbug Hill (H7623-0336) is spread over a larger area in separate ‘terraced’ areas and has no visible bed structures.

The site is an illustration of gardening and settlement by a group of people with distinct gardening methods, and with valuable mining experience from the Californian goldrush, prior to coming to Victoria.

Group

Mining and Mineral Processing

Category

Gold Mining Site