Burke Museum, Loch St, Beechworth, VIC, Australia
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S 36° 21.481 E 146° 41.227
55H E 471928 N 5976295
A museum named after Robert O'Hara Burke the police superintendent at Beechworth from 1854 to 1858,who died in 1861, while on the Burke and Wills expedition from Melbourne to northern Australia
Waymark Code: WMYXRT
Location: Victoria, Australia
Date Posted: 08/07/2018
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The first section of the Burke Museum was constructed in Loch Street, Beechworth in 1857 by the Young Men's Association, which had been formed the previous year with the aim of improving the minds of it's members. Following Robert O'Hara Burke's death in 1861 the residents of Beechworth decided to build a memorial to him and this resulted in the extension of the existing library building in 1863 becoming known as the O?Hara Burke Memorial Museum.
List: Register of the National Estate
Place ID: 4521
Place File No: 2/08/230/0006
URL database reference: [Web Link]
Status:
Registered
Year built: 1857
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