Beeac Heritage Walk
Map of Beeac Heritage Walk
START:
1. Rural Transaction Centre - 65 Main St.
(Plaque - opened 2003)
Former Beeac Post Office built 1928
Earlier Beeac Post Office destroyed by fire 1926
2. Children's Park and Playground
Plaque commemorating turning on of Mains Water -1961
3. Strip of Heritage Shops - Main St.
4. Shannon's Grocery Store and State Bank
77 Main St.
5. Gainger Bros Bus Lines - 79 Main St.
Garage opened 1917
Extensive bus service and vehicle dealerships (school, workers, passenger, tourist buses)
6. Farmers Arms Hotel - 87 Main St.
Built 1874 - Rebuilt 1914
7. Hall Windmill Manufacturing - 91 Main St.
Operated 1921-1946
Building then sold to Allan Turner
8. Former London, E.S.&A., ANZ Banks - 93 Main St.
Built 1888 Classified "C" National Trust.
(Private residence)
9. Methodist Church* - 97 Main St.
Built 1878 in bluestone - Demolished 1974
Site of first public building in Beeac - 1862
(Housed the first church and the first school)
10. Former Methodist Parsonage - 99 Main St.
(Private residence)
11. Former St. Augustine's Church of England -111 Main St. Built 1898 Closed 1996.
(Private residence)
12. Hospital No. 2 'Lochaber' - 104 Main St.
Est.1918
(Private residence)
13. St Michael's Catholic Church - Built 1924
Closed 2009
14. Public Hall- 117 Main St.
Burnt down 1985
15. Danaher's (Bouchier's Hotel)*- 119 Main St.
First Hotel Noted on first map of town in 1869
16. St Michael's Catholic Church - 123 Main St. Later St Michael's Catholic School* Built 1867 in bluestone - Demolished 1969
17. Public Library* - 37 Coulston St. Built 1880s
Moved to Recreation Reserve as change room 1931
18. Tennis Courts - Constructed 1908
19. Shire Depot
20. Dalgety's Saleyards* - 25 Coulston St.
21. Police Station No. 1 - 15 Coulston St. until 1936
Cnr Wallace & Coulston Sts
22. Oldest weatherboard home in Beeac -
8 Wallace St. - shifted from 'Grassyvale' (3km west of Beeac)
23. Former Doctors' Residence and Surgery -
13 Coulston St.
24. Police Residence No. 3
Oddfellows Hall site*
25. First Hospital - 'Braemar' - 9 Coulston St.
Est.1906 by Nurse Gray
26. Police Station No. 2 - 14 Lang St.
Est. 1936. Burnt down 1937 - rebuilt
27. Fire Station - Lang St.
First Fire Brigade 1924
28. Holdenson and Nielsen Creamery Depot*
Lang St.
Collected milk daily from local farmers
Cream then transported from Railway Station
29. Railway Station* - Lang St.
Operated 1889 -1953
Platform and turntable
(Private property)
30. Former R.S.L. Hall - 17 Lang St. Ex- Army hut
Sub-branch disbanded 1980s - building sold
(Private property)
31. Former St Andrew's Presbyterian Manse
16 Lang St. Built 1899
Became Uniting Church Manse in 1977
32. Prowse Windmill Manufacturing - 51 Main St.
Operated 1900-1940 - also Hardware Store
Later G.A. Cops General Store - 1946-1976
33. Masonic Lodge Hall - 49 Main St.
Rosebank Lodge formed 1924 - Hall built 1959
34. Former Infant Welfare Centre - 43 Main St.
Built 1967 - closed 1997 (Plaque)
(Private residence)
35. Saleyards* - 48 Main St. Cnr Main & Lang Sts
Operated late 1800s to 1940s
(Plaque in memory of Cr H.L. Martin and Cr T. Barnard)
36. Bluestone House - 21 Lang St.
Built 1920s by William Pink. Constructed of local stone
37. Beeac Hospital (CAZNA) - built 1928 by Dr Cave
Now Community Health Centre
38. Beeac Primary School - No. 482 built 1923
39. Community Centre and Recreation Reserve 55 Lang St. New hall opened 1991
40. War Memorial - erected 1923
This particular monument sculptured unusually in marble at cost of 335 pounds, plus 35 pounds for steps at base Avenues of Honour - Wallace & Coulston Sts.
41. St Andrew's Presbyterian Church - 53a Main St.
Built 1862 Became Uniting Church in 1977
Builder John Pell - Colac
42. Common School - 53 Main St. built 1868
then Presbyterian Sunday School 1923-2004
Also used as hall by many local organisations
Architect - Davidson & Henderson
(Private residence)
43. Site of Original Head Teacher's Residence*
55 Main St. Built 1878
44. Police Station No. 3 - 63 Main St.
Rebuilt 2003 - (Plaque)
45. Heritage Windmill Park - Main St.
Est. 2010 to commemorate Beeac's 150th birthday
46. Corbet Road - 2km north of Beeac -
Site of Corbet Windmill Manufacturers*
47. Beeac Creamery - original wooden structure built 1894 by Colac Dairying Co. New brick building 1929
(Privately owned)
48. Cemetery - South Cundare turn off 2.8km north of Rural Transaction Centre
Est. 1870
49. Lake Cundare Salt Works - ruins still visible*
Operated 1868 to early 1890s
Salt harvesting by hand continued until the 1950s
50. Continue along the South Cundare Road to some historic stone walls
51. South Cundare School - built 1869 closed 1921
(Privately owned)
52. Weering School - built 1867 closed 1968
(Privately owned)
53. Eurack Avenue of Honour - Est. 1916
Generally acknowledged as first Avenue of Honour to have been planted.
* ORIGINAL BUILDINGS NO LONGER EXIST ON SITES SHOWN IN RED
Location
65 Main Street, Beeac 3251 Map
