Mill Park, Victoria
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Mill Park Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Coordinates | 37°40′16″S 145°03′43″E / 37.671°S 145.062°ECoordinates: 37°40′16″S 145°03′43″E / 37.671°S 145.062°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 30,517 (2011 census) | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 2,330/km2 (6,033/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3082 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 13.1 km2 (5.1 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 19 km (12 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of Whittlesea | ||||||||||||||
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| Federal Division(s) | Scullin | ||||||||||||||
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Mill Park is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 19 km north of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Whittlesea. At the 2011 Census, Mill Park had a population of 30,517.
Mill Park's boundaries are South Morang and Epping to the north, Plenty and the Blossom Park and Rivergum estates to the east, Bundoora and Thomastown to the south and Lalor to the west.
The area is named after the Mill Park property owned by Henry "Money" Miller (1809-1888). He bred racehorses and conducted a range of dairy and grazing activities, sufficient to occupy 65 persons housed in a village on the property. The Findon Hounds and the Findon Harriers Hunt Club—a name connected with Miller's residence—Findon in Kew, were at Mill Park.
The Mill Park property specialised in horse breeding into the next century and the Findon Harriers continued there until 1930. Mill Park's rural landscape was largely unaltered until the 1960s, apart from the opening of a quarry in 1964. Following is an article on how the quarry came about.
Prior to 1957, the land today known as Yellow Gum Park where the quarry is located was part of the historic "Clear Hill" property, which stretched from the Plenty River east to Oatland Road. These lands were predominantly used for dairy farming along with grazing and minor cropping. As a result of severe bushfires during 1957, the Clear Hill estate was subdivided into smaller allotments. The portion now known as Yellow Gum Park was purchased by Reid Quarries Pty Ltd who quarried the area to produce materials that were used in the construction of many of Melbourne's early 'Sky Scrapers'. Quarrying operations commenced during 1959 and Boral Australia took over the site in the 1960s. The plant was closed in the early 1970s because of ground water seeping into the quarry hole. The ground water seepage has produced the lake which many locals know as "Blue Lake".
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