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HERMON'S MILLS AND TRAMWAY

Location BETWEEN IRRUKA ROAD AND BURNS ROAD WARBURTON, YARRA RANGES SHIRE Level Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

The site is of historical and archaeological significance as rare evidence of the logging and saw milling activity in the Yarra Ranges in the early twentieth century. The site demonstrates the characteristic form of tramways, mills and sawdust heaps.

The site is of archaeological significance for its potential to reveal more detailed evidence of structures such as the tramway formation, mill site and associated structures. There is also potential for occupational deposits from the workers who would have once been employed at the mill site.

Group

Forestry and Timber Industry

Category

Sawmill