1900-1909

Timeline 1900-1909




  • 1900 Holloways Hotel closed
  • 1900 Warrandyte Wine Hall hotel built – closed 1924 – became Folk Art Shop - 232 Yarra St
  • 1902 Eight Hours Pioneer Settlement Post Office opened in Wonga Park – renamed Wonga Park PO in 1907
  • 1904 Caledonia Mine started, off Tills Rd (now private property) – steam-powered and winch – closed 1909
  • 1904 Victory Mine closed
  • 1906 Warrandyte Football Club started (played at site next to Caledonia Mine,  Black Flat area)
  • 1908 Warrandyte Football Club moved to the new Anderson's Creek Recreation Reserve, where  it resides today
  • 1908 Warrandyte Tennis Club started
  • 1909 Anderson’s Creek officially renamed Warrandyte
  • 1909 Caledonia mine closed
  • 1909 Warrandyte Battery trust formed – took over operation of Lewis’ battery

1905 Victorian Railways Steambus near Warrandyte 

1905 Victorian Railways Steambus at Warrandyte

1905 Warrandyte Hotel

1909 Picnic at Pound Bend Reserve

1909 The Bridge

1909 Yarra in flood

1900 View near Warrandyte

1900 Aboriginal Leader Barak painting a Corroboree

1900 Grand Hotel

1909 Caledonia Mine

1904 Celebration in Yarra St for opening of Caledonia Mine

1905 South Caledenia Mine

1905 Caledonia Mine

1906 the Post Office

1906 Warrandyte Hotel

1906 Crushing battery

1907 Caledonia Mine

1906 Caledonia miners

1904 Yarra St looking east

1906 Post Office

1908 View of village

1908 Yarra St

 
 

Images taken by the author, 2010, showing surviving structures, features, and buildings from the 1900-1909 era

Boiler from the Caledonia Mine, 1904-1909, on private propeerty, Tills Rd

Site of alluvial diggings, Black Flat , 1880s

Wine Hall Hotel, opened 1900, closed 1924, now Folk Art store

Football Oval, WFC started 1906

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