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Position within Australia. Your location. Places last visited. Your screen size. Map Includes. Another theory is that two Chinese were responsible. Kow Plains run had an estimated acreage of and was said to have a carrying capacity of 50 head of cattle and sheep. Dugald Macpherson acquired the Cow Plains lease from James Smith in , and acquired 5 adjoining leases, making a total area of 81, acres. The 50 acres surrounding the homestead was made freehold on 6th June and the title subsequently sold to Macpherson at the auction in Dimboola.
The 50 acre block was purchased in by Mr Peter Peers who established a quarry in stone crushing plant there from to The stone was used for local road making. Following the recognition of Kow Plains heritage value a portion of the former 50 acre block including the buildings, wells and trough was purchased by the Mildura Rural city council for conservation purposes.
Conservation of the homestead commenced in with funding made available by the Victorian Heritage Council. Contact information about the homestead reveals: "During the first years of settlement the homestead was the focal point for meetings, town gatherings and church services.
The homestead is part of the remains of the Kow Plains Station complex first settled in The homestead has been dated as being built in , and the wells were sunk in the s. The building is a drop log construction of local pine. It is one of the very few remaining buildings of this type, and an evocative remnant of settlement and life in one of the most remote and hostile parts of the state. The last time the homestead was occupied was in , and then in it was purchased to establish a quarry.
The Mildura Rural City Council purchased the property in and a committee of management has been set up to see to the preservation of the homestead and other historic sites in the town. Since the purchase of the homestead, working bees have been held to clean up the site in readiness for preservation work to commence. Fine wildflower displays are visible from the roadside in spring. He was planning to establish a limestone quarry.
At the time high quality limestone was being used to surface roads. Peers purchased a heavy crushing plant. The limestone was drilled and detonated and then crushed.
The quarry operated until White had been appointed to survey the border between Victoria and South Australia. He tried to develop a road between the Murray-Darling junction and the upper Wimmera. It was designed to stop wild dogs. The area was covered in this drought-resistant eucalypt which proved immensely difficult to uproot and destroy. There is a useful website.
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