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trees. The north corner contains a bowling lawn, rose beds, flower and shrub beds. Along William Street there are tennis courts, which also double as volleyball, handball and netball courts. Electric barbecues nearby provides a popular site for office parties in December. Scattered about the lawns
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This listing ensures the much loved trees, landscaping and other individual features are conserved and protected. But it also means the whole site is recognised as an important place for gaining an insight into our historical, archaeological, aesthetic, horticultural and social
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1857 – cutting excavated to ease the gradient of King Street. This created the bluestone retaining wall of the high bank along the western boundary.
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boom-period classical styled architecture. The facade features paired columns with scrolled capitals and the Royal Mint coat-of-arms.
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1838 – Melbourne cemetery was marked out in what is now the Queen Victoria market, and burials continued at that location.
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was established, as iron in the buildings surrounding Flagstaff Hill were affecting Neumayer's magnetic observations.
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1862 – West Melbourne residents petition the government to turn the hill into public gardens or recreation reserve.
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1840 – a flagstaff was erected on the hill as part of a signalling system between the town and ships in the
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The park contains extensive lawns with a variety of mature trees, flowerbeds and wild animals including
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and gardens are memorials and sculptures that illuminate some of the social significance of the area.
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in 1835, the first deaths in the colony were there buried, in what became colloquially known as
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9 October 1917 – the City of Melbourne was appointed responsible for the Flagstaff Gardens.
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first included the site as part of the green belt encircling Melbourne which included
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Prior to colonisation, the high ground between William and King Streets was known as
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23 March 2004 – gardens formally added to the Victorian Heritage Register.
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1857–1863 – A Magnetic Observatory and Weather Station was established by
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11 November 1850: site of announcement of Victoria's Separation from the
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1918 – children's playground established, one of the first in Melbourne.
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1880 – establishment of path network, lawns, trees and flowerbeds.
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The gardens are 7.2 hectares (18 acres) of Crown Land bounded by
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Aerial panorama of Melbourne city taken from Flagstaff Gardens.
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worked here as an assistant before being appointed to the
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On the northeast corner over William Street, is the
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in April 2004, Council Chair Chris Gallagher said "
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Index

Flagstaff Hill, Melbourne

Urban park
Melbourne
Victoria
Australia
Coordinates
37°48′38″S 144°57′16″E / 37.8105°S 144.9544°E / -37.8105; 144.9544
City of Melbourne
Australian Native
Flagstaff railway station
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Toilets
Drinking Fountains
Victorian Heritage Register

Melbourne
Victoria, Australia
history of Melbourne
William
La Trobe
King
City of Melbourne
Flagstaff railway station
Royal Mint
Victorian Gold Rush
Queen Victoria Market
possums
deciduous

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