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ORDE'S/OGDEN BROTHERS MILL
LocationLODDON RIVER ROAD WHEATSHEAF, HEPBURN SHIRE
File Numberher/2002/000213LevelRegistered |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? A second mill was built almost on the same site by the Ogden brothers
in 1942. Logs were obtained from the surrounding forest using a
crawler tractor, with timber taken away by motor truck along a
corduroyed road constructed by the mill owners. The site includes
remnant timbers, a sawdust trench and impressions of log yard timbers.
The mill also displays the typical terraced formation of a
twentieth-century sawmill. The mill ceased cutting on the site in 1944. How is it significant? Why is it significant?
The Orde's/Ogden Brothers' mill site features
the remains of two adjacent sawmills on the Loddon River, east of
Daylesford. Thomas Orde built the first mill in 1880. He employed
forty men, and dispatched timber south along a tramway to the
Lyonville railway station. Orde's mill site features a large sawdust
heap, well defined earthworks for the sawdust trench, a stone boiler
setting and remnant timbers. The mill closed in 1896.
The Orde's/Ogden Brothers' mill site is of
archaeological significance to the State of Victoria.
The Orde's/Ogden Brothers' mill site is
archaeologically important for demonstrating two distinct stages of
Australian sawmilling technology side by side. Each site is typical of
its stage of technology. The mills have the potential to provide
significant information about the technological history of sawmilling.
Group
Forestry and Timber Industry
Category
Sawmill