UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM STATE TRUSTEES
A RARE PIECE OF HISTORY
Memories of Taradales golden past are being revisited with the pending sale of one of the towns oldest homes.
If houses could speak, the former solicitors dwelling on the corner of Roderick and Faraday Streets, could tell practically the entire history of the gold rush town.
Built in 1859, just eight years after the discovery of gold in Victoria, the house was the office and likely home of the towns first solicitor and later Clerk of Courts, Isaac LEstrange Austin.
While currently in a restorable state, this iconic house – comprising of an older brick section (Austins old office) and a newer timber section – sits alongside the former 1865 courthouse and down from the former police station (both now homes) in Faraday Street, dubbed Law and Order Street by former Taradale residents.
Lot/Plan No: 1/TP863644 翻譯中文