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Cr Jack Chisolm, president of the Ballaarat Historical Society, prepared a paper in May 1974 to stimulate discussion on the site of the Eureka Stockade Monument. He tentatively reached the conclusion that "personally, I am inclined to the view that Rodier St is nearer the exact site". [36]
Ballarat Heritage Services, also known as BHS Publishing, is an Australian publisher in Ballarat, Victoria.It was founded in 1998 by Clare Gervasoni, Dorothy Wickham and Wayne Phillipson, to promote Victorian local and family history in historical gold mining towns of the Victorian gold rush.
Sovereign Hill is an open-air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Sovereign Hill depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851 and has become a nationally acclaimed tourist attraction. [1] It is one of Victoria's most popular attractions and Ballarat's most famous. [2]
Ballarat Heritage Weekend is a community cultural festival held annually in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Run since 2006 by the City of Ballarat, it is a major tourist attraction. The festival follows a heritage theme drawing on Ballarat's reputation as a historic Australian city. Many of the events are free.
Jock Winter, Ballarat Historical Society collection John Winter (c. 1800 – August 1875), familiarly known as Jock Winter, was a Scottish squatter and pastoralist in Ballarat, Victoria. Winter emigrated to Australia in 1841. He became a wealthy shepherd at Buninyong, buying a run from Henry Anderson and renaming it Bonshaw for his wife, daughter of the laird of Bonshaw. One of his employees ...
In his seminal Flag of Stars, Frank Cayley published two sketches he discovered on a visit to the soon-to-be headquarters of the Ballarat Historical Society in 1963, which may be the original plans for the Eureka Flag. One is a two-dimensional drawing of a flag bearing the words "blue" and "white" to denote the colour scheme.
[3]: 41 The Ballarat Tramway Preservation Society was also formed in 1971 to start, and run, an authentic tramway. [3]: 44 In 1978 the society was incorporated, as the Ballarat Tourist Tramway. [4]: 14 It was renamed the Ballarat Vintage Tramway in 1981. [4]: 14 In 1995 they changed the name to the Ballarat Tram Museum Inc. [3]: 51
Historic homes in Ballarat, Victoria (3 P) M. Museums in Ballarat (4 P) Pages in category "History of Ballarat" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 ...