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Plaque commemorating the separation of Vic. from N.S.W.

Location

Moorabool Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 312487

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE HISTORIC PLACES DOCUMENT SHEET - GRC SHEET NO 245

The plaque commemorating the establishment of the Colony of Victoria in 1850 is located on the site where announced in Geelong.

The plaque also records an important event in Geelong in November, 1850, when news of Separation was marked by a foreshore pageant, procession and fireworks display, and a public banquet;

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Geelong Regional Commission Register

REFERENCES

The plaque is inscribed as follows:

'On November 1850

Here in Front of Mack's Hotel

Settlers met the First Ships to Use

The Steam Packet Wharf

And Learnt that the Act to Establish

The Colony of Victoria

Had Been Passed'

Victorian 1951 Commemorative Committee

Lang, W. R. - 'Geelong's Monuments and Plaques' - No 5 Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Victorian 1951 Commemorative Committee,

Foreshore Pageant Geelong, 1951

Pamphlet (copy held by PL Brown).

Group

Monuments and Memorials

Category

Other - Monuments & Memorials