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GREEN CREEK ROAD SAWMILL

Location Green Creek Rd and Glenelg River Rd MIRRANATWA, Southern Grampians Shire File Number 253 Level Stage 2 study complete

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Green Creek Sawmill existed from about 1900 for several decades and represents the second, industrialised phase of the now passed lifestyle. It is not known which of the several local milling families operated it but it may have been the Fitzpatrick family who relocated to the outskirts of Dunkeld in 1942. It was one of several in the upper Victoria Valley, the closest being about 2.2kms to the north-east and McIntyre's, later Strahan's, 13.5kms to the south-west. Little survives of these ephemeral sites, with only pits, trenches and a clearing for a yard at the Green Creek site. It retains a high degree of archaeological potential.

How is it significant?
The Green Creek Road Sawmill site is of historical and archaeological significance to the district of Victoria Valley and to the Southern Grampians Shire as a Heritage Inventory site.

Why is it significant?
The Green Creek Road Sawmill site is of historical significance as a representative example of the now passed saw millers' way of life. It is of archaeological significance for the evidence it may yield about that lifestyle.