KALKALLO POLICE PADDOCK SITE
Other Names
KALKALLO POLICE PADDOCK , DONNYBROOK POLICE STATION , DONNYBROOK POLICE STATION , KALKALLO POLICE PADDOCK
Location
1310 HUME HIGHWAY KALKALLO, HUME CITY
Level
Heritage Inventory Site
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Statement of Significance
Data has been updated as a result of the Outer Western Metro Project, Context, March 2010.
SiteCard data copied on 28/10/2025:
What is significant?
The archaeological deposits, features and artefact assemblages that relate to the historic occupation of the site throughout the period between the c.1840s and 1956.
The site’s historical location as a stop for the gold escort on its way to Melbourne.
The in-situ structural features that record the nature of the site’s early evolution.
The potential artefact-bearing deposits that have the ability to inform regarding the use of the site by those that lived and/or worked there.
The fact that it represent early examples of the policing of Victoria
and has the potential to provide unique information regarding this.How is it significant?
The site is significant in and of itself because it is unique in its formation and contents and has no modern counterparts.
Being the record of early policing and law and order within Victoria.
Its potential to produce information and comparative data regarding the archaeology of 19th century rural victoria and its occupants, and therefore to contribute to a more substantive understanding of the state's history.
Being of an age and derivation relevant to a wide range of the Victorian Framework of Historical Themes, including Theme 3.1 Establishing pathways, Theme 4.5 Gold mining, Theme 6.5 Living in Country Towns, Theme 7.3 Maintaining law and order and Theme 8.2 Educating People.Why is it significant?
The site is relatively undisturbed and as such may contain further subsurface archaological deposits relating to the sites use as a police station and as a school masters house.
Group
Law Enforcement
Category
Police station
