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Henry Joseph Moran Park

Other Name

Moran Reserve, Dandenong Pound Reserve

Location

Pound Road,HAMPTON PARK, Casey City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Henry Joseph Moran reserve, originally established c.1880, in Pound Road, Hampton Park.

How is it significant?
The Henry Joseph Moran Reserve is of local historic significance to the City of Casey.

Why is it significant?
Historically, it is significant for its associations with Henry J Moran who for a brief but formative period in the early 1880s was owner of this garden and a foreman at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens under William Guilfoyle's direction. The selection of plantings which survive here are indicative of Guilfoyle's own planting choices ('Araucaria sp.') as well as including some mature exotic specimens which are within the city for their combination, their age and species. Moran is thought to have also laid out the Dandenong public gardens and planted many of the old trees in the Hampton Park area. The Moran family appear to have maintained a long association with the site. The site of the reserve also has significance as originally part of the large Dandenong Pound Reserve, the origin of the name Pound Road. (AHC criteria A4, D2 and H1)

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