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Harkaway Street Signage
Hessel Road These two signs are approximately 100 paces apart on Ernst Wanke Road at Harkaway. Which one is right? Jacob William Hessel commenced teaching at the Harkaway Lutheran School in 1862. When the school was taken over by the Victorian Education Department in 1876, Jacob Hessel became the first teacher of Harkaway State School.…
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Harkaway Avenue of Honour
The original 26 trees were planted in 1919, 40 years before the erection of the memorial stone. Cr George Rae unveiled the stone on Anzac Day 1959 before a crowd of more than 100 people that included two of the soldiers listed, Alf Edmondson and Alex McNab. Our living Memorials by the City of Casey.Memorial…
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Jessie Traill Reserve
Jessie Traill (1881-1967) was a painter and etcher who liked to paint trees and landscapes as well as more industrial subjects like mines and factories. She joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment in England during the Great War and nursed in military hospitals in France. When she returned to Australia after the war, Jessie and her…
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