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KOZMINSKY'S MILL & LOG CHUTE

Location

MOUNT BUANGOR STATE PARK BAYINDEEN AND MOUNT BUANGOR STATE PARK RAGLAN, ARARAT RURAL CITY, PYRENEES SHIRE

File Number

HER/2002/000223

Level

Registered

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Kozminsky's mill and log chute is a rare surviving example of a large sawmill and log delivery system which operated during the early period of Victorian timber-getting. Marks Kozminsky established the mill in partnership with David Sanderson in 1876. The site features the intact formations of a wagon track and log chute descending from the plateau of Mount Buangor, east of Ararat. Large eucalypts growing in the chute reinforce its nineteenth-century origin. At the mill, a four-metre-deep pit for the vertical breaking-down saw is the deepest recorded in Victoria to date. The sawdust trench and other earthworks are large and very well preserved. The mill closed in 1879.

How is it significant?
Kozminsky's mill and log chute is of historical and scientific significance to the State of Victoria.

Why is it significant?
Kozminsky's mill and log chute is historically and scientifically significant as a comparatively intact nineteenth-century sawmill and log delivery route. Log chutes are rare in Victoria and Kozminsky's is one of the best preserved of its type known. The remains of the logging route illustrate the construction methods and engineering features required to operate in steeply forested terrain in this period. The site is significant for its potential to provide evidence relating to the technological history of the sawmilling industry.

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