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Location425-465 HAMILTON HIGHWAY FYANSFORD, Greater Geelong City Google Maps and Google StreetviewVictorian Heritage Register (VHR) NumberH0696 Heritage Overlay NumberHO89 Level of SignificanceRegistered |
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AMENDMENT OF REGISTER OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS Historic Building No. 696. Frogmore, Hamilton Highway, Fyansford to the extent of all of the buildings and the whole of the land ... more |
The exploration of Hamilton Hume and William Hilton Hovell into inland New South Wales and Victoria on route to the Port Phillip District in 1824-25 and the favourable reports of the land they had seen was a significant event in the colonization of Victoria. While Hume and Hovell discovered major inland rivers and first sighted the mountains of the Great Dividing Range in Victoria, it was the adventurous Launceston sealers, whalers and pastoralists who informally ... more
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