Category: Articles – Essays

Articles

A collection of articles written over the years by various members of the Whittlesea Historical Society.

 

 

Castle Hill Farm

The Castle Hill farm was originally owned by John Bear who had bought the land on the 24th November 1842, under a “Deed of Grant Purchase”. Section 20, Parish of Yan Yean, County of Bourke, lot 52 consisted of approximately 932 acres. John Bear died in 1851 and in 1855 John’s son, Thomas Hutchings Bear entered an indenture under which...

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Caretaker’s House at Yan Yean Reservoir

By Lindsay Mann This article intends using existing Documentation to discover when the brick section of the Caretaker’s House at Yan yean Reservoir was built and occupied. Meredith Gould in her 1991 Whittlesea heritage Study speculated that the oldest or masonry section of the building known as the Caretaker’s Cottage may have been designed by James Blackburn. This is entirely...

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Bridge Inn Hotel Archaeological Dig

Heritage Victoria has undertaken yet another excavation site along the Plenty River  and within the Plenty Gorge Park. It stemmed from historical investigations carried out as part of the Mernda Rail Extension. This dig site however was to solve the mystery of the whereabouts of the original Bridge Inn Hotel which was one of the earliest buildings  constructed outside Melbourne ...

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