Bacchus Marsh 平均房價House 價格比去年下降6% .
周邊地區Bacchus Marsh Median RentThe House rent is 上升2% .
| | A28-32 MANOR STREET, Bacchus Marsh | | 距離: | 48.3 公里 to CBD; 1.6 公里 to Bacchus Marsh Station [公共交通] |
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| 地圖位置 | 街景 | 周邊成交價 | | 改建申請曆史: | | | 被市政府指定為 Victorian heritage | Last updated on - June 21, 2005
What is significant?
The exploration of Hamilton Hume and William Hilton Hovell into inland New South Wales and Victoria on route to the Port Phillip District in 1824-25 and the favourable reports of the land they had seen was a significant event in the colonization of Victoria. While Hume and Hovell discovered major inland rivers and first sighted the mountains of the Great Dividing Range in Victoria, it was the adventurous Launceston sealers, whalers and pastoralists who informally took up land to further their commercial interests on the southern coastal areas of Victoria. In 1835 two exploring parties, representing the interests of settlers John Batman and John Fawkner from Tasmania, sailed into Port Phillip. When Captain John Lancey in charge of Fawkner’s boat Enterprize entered the mouth of the Yarra River he first followed the westerly stream, the Saltwater or Maribyrnong River. He then returned to the Yarra where the rocky falls which mostly stopped the inflow of sea water provided a supply of drinking water a short way upstream. The site of the falls provided a logical place for a settlement, with both the Batman and Fawkner parties claimants to the title as the first settlers of the settlement which became Melbourne.
A Scottish immigrant, Kenneth Clarke, who had immigrated to Van Diemen’s Land in 1818, was one of the earliest of the pastoralists to follow Batman and Fawkner across Bass Strait. In December 1836, Clarke bought a flock from George Town Tasmania which he then drove along the Maribyrnong River valley in search of new grazing areas on behalf of the Great Lakes Pastoral Company. In 1838, Clarke chose to take control of land in an area now known as the Pentland Hills after conceding his initial holding near the Werribee and Lerderderg Rivers to Captain William Bacchus and his son who had also brought sheep across from Tasmania. Once Clarke had moved on, Bacchus concentrated on consolidating his holdings in the area. He established a head station and built four outstations to ensure possession of an area of a radius of three miles [4.8km] around each hut. In William Darke’s survey of the River Werribee and its tributaries undertaken in 1839-40, a structure is shown on the present Manor House site. The nature of the structure, which was elsewhere referred to as ‘Captain Bacchus’s house’, is not well established, but a brick building on the site possibly pre-dates the existing house.
With the foundation of his status as a retired military officer and English county magistrate to support him, Captain Bacchus quickly developed close social and business connections in Melbourne. He was a foundation member of the influential Melbourne Club, and a member of the Melbourne Cricket Club and the Pastoral and Agricultural Society of Australia Felix. Captain Bacchus’s commercial activities in Melbourne co |
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