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10 LALOR 14 PETERS 18 KARSTEN medicines, utensils, weapons, 37 DRUMS Community Links Council,

32 EARLY EUROPEAN Communities Multicultural

Bern Emmerichs - Artist Statements ‘In this township, employment Depicted here are some of the The Karsten family were one of the musical instruments, firewood, ash, Lalor’s shopping strip is the hidden SETTLERS Whittlesea Library, Regional

will be found for the majority of delightful pioneer farmhouses, pioneer immigrants from the 1850’s glues, dyes, waterproofing, and compact gem of the North offering

A short description of 5 DEMOCRACY breadwinners of the community constructed of the local bluestone, to the area. Each original purchaser other purposes. Here we have the German and tantalizing food from across the Plenty Yarra Westgarthtown, Wendish emigrants leaving of Friends (PLHEA), Alliance each artwork in the Democracy is a system of gov- and the whole community will enjoy during the establishment of ’s paid 1 pound per acre, but a globe, as well as over 100 services

Hamburg, for their new home and artist’s own words ernment in which people choose homes of their own, trading and first German and Wendish settlement, proportion was set aside for the 25 SHOP KEEPER AND of retail and businesses and a very Estate Housing Lalor Peter the

life in . The journey took their rulers by voting for them in recreational facilities managed Westgarthtown, around the 1850s. Lutheran Church, school, cemetery, YOUNG SCOOTER LAD! vibrant local library! Association, Traders Lalor the

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co-operatively, and the advantages access road and communal The friendly, relaxing multicultural (WRG), Group Reconciliation

1 WILLIAM BARAK elections. of living in a clean, neighbourly, 15 FIRST AUSTRALIANS springs. environment of Lalor is the perfect 38 A STEP TOWARDS A NEW Whittlesea Inc., Council

As well as being a skilled political 5 1854 33 MILK BOTTLES

spacious and picturesque place to relax and enjoy! It’s great WAY OF LIFE The First Australians have inhabited Heritage Cultural Land Tribe leader and mediator William Barak The Eureka Stockade began when

environment.’ …from part of the this land for over 65,000 years. In 19 MATTED FLAX LILY for all the senses! 1850 living and working hard in Two classic examples of homes built was a fabulous artist, creating insurgents swore the ‘Eureka Oath’, Wurundjeri Elder, Wurundjeri

leaflet of ‘The Idea’ of the Peter the Woiwurrung language ‘Mernda’ Matted flax lily, is a tuft mat Westgarthtown. Today there are in the Peter Lalor Co-op in 1946. The paintings, drawings and artifacts. their allegiance to the Southern - Hunter Ian including 2, Part

Lalor Society. means ‘young girl’. The crow Waa forming lily, with a small blue-violet 26 ZIEBELL 5 original farmhouses, as well estate is located 18 kilometres north His works are held in many public Cross on the 1st of December 1854. Conversations Lalor inform

and Bunjil, the Creator Spirit are flower with orange stramae. The The many names of Thomastown: as many other historic sites, that of ’s CBD. collections. remain as a shining legacy of the helped also that project

6 PETER LALOR 11 SCAR present! Wurundjeri people use it for food, Keelbundoora, German Town, 1 ANNIE BORAT German and Wendish pioneers Conversation Lalor the for

Peter Lalor was elected to There are many Aboriginal scar 15 DOG AND PIZZA BOX berries when ripe, and seeds to German Colony, Dry Creek, New 39 1854 BALLARAT The Wurundjeri people lived that settled in the area. consultation in participated

Parliament in 1855.This is Peter trees that date back thousands of Myth or legend? The happy dog chew. The leafs are used for basket Mecklenberg, Westgarthtown Eureka Stockade : The battle lasted entirely from resources derived years. The bark was removed by making, plaited into cords. less than 15 minutes. 24 miners were who groups community

dressed in the robes and wig of with the pizza box steaming from 34 EMU from the land supplying their and residents the to Thanks ‘the speaker of the house’. He Aboriginal people to make canoes, his mouth! The worldly village 19 ZIEBELL 27 PETER LALOR killed, or died from wounds. At least 5 shelter, food, tools and medicines. shelter, coolamons and shields. The eastern and western borders of The Plenty River had many creeks soldiers died. 125 miners were taken continued to fight for the rights of of Lalor, always a lively hub of Have you visited the lovingly offering various types of fish, colourful activity! restored Ziebell’s Farmhouse, Lalor are defined by Darebin Creek prisoner. 500 miners took the oath 2 BUNJIL THE CREATOR the miners and the working class. birdlife and animals, a rich source 12 HIGH SUMMER with its stunning outbuildings and and Merri Creek respectively! under the Southern Cross. SPIRIT 6 LALOR of fresh water, food and shelter, for The Wurrundjeri people have their 16 ANNIE BORAT flourishing gardens? It was built by A rich and proud history, and a Bunjil the Creator Spirit created all The Southern Cross is a powerful First Australians. own way of marking the seasons. Annie Borat, the sister of William the Ziebell family between 1851 and whole lot of love, from a vibrant 40 ANASTASIA HAYES life; the mountains, rivers, plants, symbol, heralding winds of In High Summer, the native Barak, was a tribal elder, (whose 1856. It is opened every second community, lies in between! Women were also present on the animals and the Wurundjeri people change, and unity in defiance. The 35 ZIMMER grasslands grow tall and set seed father witnessed the signing of the Sunday of each month from 1-4 pm gold fields, fulfilling very important and their lores (laws) customs and digger to the right is admiring it. 1857, Maria Kaiser, working on and the birds are feeding their John Batman treaty in 1835). or by appointment! 28 SHIPS roles. They were miners, teachers, beliefs. young. The Pribislaw arrived in Melbourne Johann Zimmer’s farm writes, “We writers, journalists, traders, activists, 7 PETER LALOR 16 WILLIAM BARAK are harvesting now and everything 2 DEEP WINTER 20 MINER’S RIGHT the 2nd of February 1850. Half of as well as being wives, mothers, Lalor Peter Lalor quote,” It is sweet and William Barak and the Wurundjeri The Middle Yarra region has 6 13 P.L.C.O HOUSES AND the original Germans and Wends looks good, we have 8 cows, 6 and carers. pleasant to die for one’s country people of the Kulin Nations lived After the rebellion, a Royal seasons, which the Wurundjeri STREETS who settled at Westgarthtown, calves and 2 pigs. “ but it is sweeter to live and see on the land for tens of thousands Commission was held and people had their own way ‘It is an ambitious, brave sailed on this ship. 35 PARTRIDGE 41 OLD CODGERS! Conversations the principles for which you have of years, predominantly as hunters licencing laws were replaced with of marking. Autumn, winter, experiment, the first of its kind in Lalor today is a bustling hub of Lalor, a meeting place for young and risked your life’s triumphant!” and gatherers. a system whereby miners paid a prespring, true spring, early Australia’, quoted architect Robin tax on gold they found, instead of 29 FRAULEIN UND MADCHEN life filled with many independent old, this is what I love about Lalor! Part 2 summer and late summer. Boyd in 1948. Approximately MIT HUND spirits. It is a worldly village, a 8 ANASTASIA HAYES 17 EARLY EUROPEAN paying for the possibility of striking 200 houses were built under the gold. They were also given the land Life was not all work in the mid place of opportunity, where over 42 ANASTASIA HAYES Here are the three brave women SETTLERS 3 YAM Peter Lalor Co-op scheme. The on which they worked. 1850’s. Lots of fun was to be had, 30 languages are spoken. Anastasia Hayes, Anastasia Withers A CULTURAL HERITAGE sewing the Southern Cross Flag Westgarthtown is an historic dairy Some native species from the dedication and naming of streets the seasons being a lot milder than and Anne Duke, were the three by candlelight, which flew over the farming settlement, 16 kilometres area. Wollert (derived from Walert) within the estate emphasised the Europe! 36 DEMOCRACY TRAIL OF ARTWORKS north of Melbourne, established in 21 STOCK brave women who stitched the means possum in the Woiwurrung Eureka Stockade, throughout the strong connection between the co- Peter Lalor, the Irish born the1850’s by German and Wendish Stockade and stock! Both unique 29 MUSICIAN famous flag of the rebellion and language. famous uprising. operative and ex-servicemen, who Australian rebel and later (also known as Sorbian) immigrants. to Lalor! You never know what wonderful unity, known as the . 3 RIVER RED GUM lost their lives during the war. politician. He was the leader in 9 WUCHATSCH Now located within the residential musical surprises you may see and Majestic River Red Gums are 13 WILLIAM 22 MINER the Eureka Stockade uprising in 43 FIRST AUSTRALIANS Here we see the various farming suburbs of Lalor and Thomastown. hear in the Lalor shopping precinct! prominent throughout the area. William Westgarth, a Scottish born Ballarat in 1854, which gave rise to The painting depicts an Aboriginal activities of the area in the mid 17 MUSICIAN WITH WHEELS Hot, dusty, cold, damp Always a treat! They may live for more than 500 merchant, financier, historian and the life of a miner was one of hard the birth of democracy. language map of the Woiwurrung 1800’s in Westgarthtown. May Rd and Station Street Lalor, years. politician in Australia who lived from labour, flies, dysentery, mud, sly 30 FIRST AUSTRALIANS 36 LALOR (woiwurrung) language group, 9 MINER’S RIGHTS with its laid back neighbourhood 1815 to 1889. He was influential in grog and occasionally gold! The painting depicts an Aboriginal The census division map of Lalor, spoken by the Wurundjeri Willum Since 1855, the Victorian vibe, has it all, complete 4 THE GOLD DIGGERS the subsidizing of the emigration of language map of the Woiwurrung from 1966, is the centre piece of Clan the Traditional Custodians of government has managed gold with colourful musicians and Ballarat 1854, here we have German farmers and labourers, in 23 YAM (woiwurrung) language group, this painting. The ‘e’ triangle is this land. prospecting through a licencing entertainers! I love it! Peter Lalor and the gold diggers the 1850’s, who formed settlements The yam daisy is a native root spoken by the Wurundjeri Willum the home of the Peter Lalor Home system, known as The Miner’s who had built a wooden fort or in Thomastown, Doncaster and vegetable, 8 times as nutritious Clan the Traditional Custodians of Building Co-Operative Society. 44 and 45 WILLIAM BARAK Right. These certificates grant 18 TIMM. JOHANN stockade, at the Eureka diggings elsewhere. as potatoes and as sweet as this land. William Barak was a Ngurngaeta The heavy horses we see in this known as the Eureka Stockade. prospectors permission to search coconut. Also known as murrnong, 37 THE LUTHERAN CHURCH (Chief lawman) of the Wurundjeri painting, have their tails docked…. for gold in Victoria. 14 BETTER WORLD it was a major food source for the 31 WILLIAM WESTGARTH The beautiful bluestone Lutheran Willum clan, renowned for his work 4 GOLD DIGGERS, can you think why this would be? ADVANCE AUSTRALIA Can you spot someone you may Wurundjeri people. Dairying was the main farming Church in Thomastown, is the in Aboriginal social justice and as 10 PETER LALOR What is the traditional name of know? Lalor railway station was activity of the area and continued oldest of its kind operating in being one of the greatest leaders of This is one example of the MATERIALS STOCKADE the working trousers the farmer is Advance Australia Arms, originally known as Rail Motor 24 WATTLE TREE on for 120 years, until the early Australia. Dedicated on the 17th of this area, in his time. This sign was erected on 22nd wearing? (answer- lederhosen…. representing the miners from the Stopping Place 77, when it opened Wattle trees were used routinely 1970’s. Pura Milk Dairy at Preston, November, 1856, it was built at a of June 1947 as the members what would this be in English do gold fields of the 1850’s gold rush. in 1949! by the Wurundjeri people for a was established to retail milk from cost of at least 320 pounds! 46 LALOR CONVERSATION of the Co-op started to build the you think?) wide range of uses from food to Westgarthtown in 1934. The original 4 ceramic murals. stockade.

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These project and the artworks are about an exchange of ideas and are an investment in cultural opportunities and imagination. They and create tell stories about Lalor, inviting places for people to walk hope you will enjoy the trail to. We of artworks that celebrate Lalor’s unique cultural heritage. Approximate time to walk the trail is between 35 to 60 mins, depending on the speed of walking and time stopped to view the works. A map with statements about the works can be downloaded via this link: [email protected]

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H G I START H In 2015 after extensive community In 2015 consultation artist Bern Emmerichs was commissioned by Council to create artworks in Station Lalor Walk, for Peter The result is four Street Lalor. ceramic tile murals entitled, Lalor Conversation. Each mural is intricately detailed with hand painted images, celebrating the history and cultural heritage of These artworks were so Lalor. well received by the community it was decided to build that in 2017 upon the success of project by expanding it out into the streets in a 3km radius of Peter of Lalor, Lalor Walk.