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Robin Hill Lone Grave

Location

Pioneer Drive,, MAIDEN GULLY VIC 3551 - Property No B6811

File Number

B6811

Level

Local

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Statement of Significance

The Robin Hill Lone Grave is of local significance for the following reasons: - its importance in the course or pattern of Bendigo's cultural history as tangible evidence of life in this area in the 1850s. * - it has importance for its association with pioneer settlement in the area because of the gold rushes. - its possession of uncommon aspects of Victoria's cultural hisory as the site of an 1850s lone grave. * Its importance in demonstrating a distinctive way of life, custom, and design no longer practised and in danger of being lost. It is of exceptional interest as a rare example of an isolated grave erected to one family during the gold rushes. Despite the change to the physical fabric, it demonstrates the importance of this type of memorial at the time. - its potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Bendigo's cultural history. * Its importance for information contributing to a wider understanding of Bendigo's history, by virtue of its use as a research and reference site. * Its importance for information contributing to a wider understanding of the history of human occupation of Bendigo, by providing information about the Ninnes family. * For its value as a historical record, an individual memorial, its continuity and security, for the manner in which it inspires a respect for the dead, as a social document, and for its role in education and recreation.
Classified: 07/07/1997

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