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MOUNT ROUSE QUARRIES

Location off Ritchie Street Mount Rouse Reserve PENSHURST, Southern Grampians Shire File Number 120 Level Stage 2 study complete

[1/1] 23374 Mount Rouse Quarry

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Mount Rouse Quarry is located on the north-east face of Mount Rouse. It is supported by plant and equipment and functional buildings. The quarry mines bluestone which has been used in the construction of many houses, roads and other structures throughout the Shire of Southern Grampians. There appear to have been at least five quarries on Mount Rouse. It is not known when the various quarries were first opened.

How is it significant?
The Mount Rouse Quarry is of historical and scientific significance to the Southern Grampians shire and to the township of Penshurst.

Why is it significant?
The Mount Rouse Quarry is of historical significance as a major employer and as the source of the material for buildings, roads and railways and of scientific significance for the exploitation of a natural resource from an early period.