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Wilson Botanic Park

Other Name

Wilson Quarry

Location

668 Princes Highway,BERWICK, Casey City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The Wilson Botanic Park has regional significance as a historic quarry site owned by the Wilson family, district pioneers, for four generations. The Wilsons owned the Berwick Quarry from the 1850s until its closure in 1973. A major district industry, the Berwick Quarry supplied stone for ballast for the Gippsland railway in the 1870s and crushed stone for roads throughout west Gippsland. More recently, stone from the quarry was provided for a great number of residential subdivisions spreading eastward from Dandenong.

The park is also of national significance as the site of important palaeo-botanical discoveries, with the oldest evidence of eucalyptus species in Australia having been found here (1).

Sources
1. Wilson Bontanic Park. Open Day. City of Berwick.

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