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Menenia Park

Other Name

Sherwood Park

Location

71 Craig Road,DEVON MEADOWS, Casey City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
'Menenia Park'

How is it significant?
'Menenia Park' is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Casey.

Why is it significant?

Menenia Park (house, trees and outbuildings) is of significance to the City for its distinctive combination of a well-preserved two-storey verandahed farm house form and weatherboard cladding, from early this century, together with a number of other historic elements from the 19th century such as the well and earlier house sites. The property is also associated with some of the pioneering landowners of the district, such as Bruce, Foley and William Taylor, and prominent names from other districts such as the Irvine and Crosthwaite families. It once formed part of a property holding thousands of acres and was the setting for some of the district's social events in the form of race meetings.

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