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SOLOMAN'S FORD
Location55 CLARENDON STREET (END CANNING STREET), AVONDALE HEIGHTS LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Why is it significant? How is it significant? Soloman's Ford is scientifically significant for the potential to contain artefacts associated with its early use as a crossing place during the mid nineteenth century. (Criterion C)
What is referred to as Soloman's Ford is situated off the western end of Canning Street, Avondale Heights within the Maribyrnong River valley. The ford comprises a natural stone outcrop across the Maribyrnong River to which has been added large weathered basalt boulders. The natural, rural setting of the ford with little evidence of modern development contributes to the significance of the place.
Soloman's Ford is of local historic and scientific (archaeological) significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
Soloman's Ford is historically significant as a place that is associated with the very early exploration and settlement of Melbourne prior to the Gold Rush of the 1850s. It is a rare surviving example of an early ford that provides tangible evidence of the routes used by early settlers and explorers and the means used to traverse watercourses prior to the construction of bridges.(Criteria A & B)
Group
Transport - Road
Category
Other - Transport - Road