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Keeping the land clean: an creation historical archaeology of landscape and garden at Murrungowar, Victoria

Keeping the land clean: an creation historical archaeology of landscape and garden at... Abstract The railway to the struggling agricultural community of land selectors at Murrungowar never did happen. However, the 30-year-old promise of a road came good in 1922 — and as this bitter poem predicted, most of the few remaining farmers promptly used it to leave. Their exit signalled the end of the first wave of attempts to transform the mountainous, native forests of Murrungowar into a patchwork of green fields and farmsteads. Despite years of effort to ‘keep the land clean’, it was only within months of abandonment that the carefully nurtured landscapes of farms, orchards and gardens were revegetating into the densely forested landscape which dominates the area today. The influence of material and ideological factors on trajectories of land settlement and the relationship between landscape and community development are the subjects of current postgraduate research in historical archaeology. This essay presents some of the archaeological work in progress towards a recovery of the landscape features which land selectors created in their attempts to transform ‘space’ into ‘place’ at Murrungowar. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Keeping the land clean: an creation historical archaeology of landscape and garden at Murrungowar, Victoria

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Taylor & Francis
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1943-2186
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1460-1176
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10.1080/14601176.2001.10436268
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Abstract The railway to the struggling agricultural community of land selectors at Murrungowar never did happen. However, the 30-year-old promise of a road came good in 1922 — and as this bitter poem predicted, most of the few remaining farmers promptly used it to leave. Their exit signalled the end of the first wave of attempts to transform the mountainous, native forests of Murrungowar into a patchwork of green fields and farmsteads. Despite years of effort to ‘keep the land clean’, it was only within months of abandonment that the carefully nurtured landscapes of farms, orchards and gardens were revegetating into the densely forested landscape which dominates the area today. The influence of material and ideological factors on trajectories of land settlement and the relationship between landscape and community development are the subjects of current postgraduate research in historical archaeology. This essay presents some of the archaeological work in progress towards a recovery of the landscape features which land selectors created in their attempts to transform ‘space’ into ‘place’ at Murrungowar.

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Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Mar 1, 2001

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