Successful applicants in Round Two of the program were announced by Mr Bruce Mildenhall MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier, in Castlemaine, on 6 December 2000.
Advance Morwell Inc
Awarded: $5,932
Publish the complete diaries of George Auchterlonie, a WW1 Light Horse man who served in Egypt, Palestine and Sinai with the 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment.
Allwood Neighbourhood House
Awarded: $3,565
Undertake an oral history project to record the stories and experiences of older residents from Hurstbridge and surrounding Districts.
Anglesea and District Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $2,970
Digitally scan the society’s photographic collection.
Anglo-Boer War Study Group
Awarded: $6,500
Record for all Victorians the role that their young men played as volunteers in the Colonial regiments that fought in the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902).
Apollo Bay & District Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $2,500
Publication of manuscript written in 1950s about life in the Otways from 1896 to 1912 by the late Mrs Eveline Bessie Trevaskis (nee Holmes).
Auburn Primary School
Awarded: $1,310
The preservation, conservation and display of a 93 year old sports pennant flag presented to the school in 1907 for winning the State Schools’ Football Championship.
Bacchus Marsh Blacksmith’s Cottage and Forge Advisory Committee Inc
Awarded: $3,000
Set up public displays in the recently refurbished buildings using artefacts and equipment housed at the complex.
Bacchus Marsh Historical Society
Awarded: $1,585
To preserve photographs maps and ephemera by housing them in archival quality storage systems and to mount rotating displays of material in permanent and secure glass fronted noticeboards in the Bacchus Marsh Library.
Ballaarat Astronomical Society
Awarded: $5,364
Publish a high-quality, colour-illustrated booklet outlining the history and unique features of the Ballarat Municipal Observatory.
Ballarat Fire Brigade (CFA)
Awarded: $1,188
Survey the Brigades collection to determine restoration and conservation priorities and costs.
Bayside City Council
Awarded: $9,000
Catalogue, digitise and undertake a conservation assessment of the collection of historical photographs (events, buildings, environment, and people) of the former cities of Brighton and Sandringham to enable access to public.
Bellarine Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $2,970
Scan, catalogue and index approximately 2500-3000 photos to improve access and preserve the collection.
Bendigo Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $2,071
The preservation, reformatting, and transcription of an 1856 petition from 1387 Bendigo Crown Land occupants to His Excellency Major General Macarthur and making the content of the petition more widely available to the public.
Benjeroop Public Hall Inc
Awarded: $808
Permanent public display of photographs and records relating to European settlement in three adjoining localities, namely, Benjeroop, Winlaton & Murrabit West.
Birchip Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $3,147
To supply further equipment and refurbishment for storage of archival documents.
Birregurra Mail Inc
Awarded: $5,962
The preservation and conservation of local historical material.
Camperdown and District Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $1,080
Record the oral history of individuals and groups within Camperdown and district.
Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation
Awarded: $5,299
Casey-Cardinia: Moments in a Regional History a travelling and virtual exhibition contributed to by all the historical groups in the region to demonstrate the special, eclectic history of the region.
Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum
Awarded: $2,500
Conservation treatment of twelve significant artworks relating to the Forest Creek, Mount Alexander Diggings 1850-70, held in the collection of the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum.
Castlemaine Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $2,000
Research, record and promote the area known as Castlemaine Gold Commissioner’s Camp (1851) by producing a free, self guided brochure and mounting an interpretative exhibition which will be launched for the 2001Victorian heritage Festival.
Castlemaine Secondary College
Awarded: $1,963
To conserve, preserve and archive historical significant student records relation to secondary educational institutions of Castlemaine (1887-1999) and create a computer index (1887-1986).
Churchill Neighbourhood Centre Inc
Awarded: $2,000
To produce a book of oral history stories, documenting older people’s experiences of life in Central Gippsland in the twentieth century.
City of Port Phillip
Awarded: $5,000
The project, The George: A History of St Kilda is a book with an interactive, on-line component.
Coburg Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $1,952
Plaques, together with pamphlet ‘historic Sydney road’, locating and describing historic buildings and sites along Sydney Road in Coburg and Brunswick.
Collingwood Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $1,957
Indexing Collingwood History Collection for inclusion in computer database accessible via the Internet.
Continuing Education Bendigo Inc
Awarded: $730
To organise, prepare and copy documents/photographs/family history relating to the community owned property known as “Lancewood” in Bendigo, and put on permanent display.
Craigieburn Historical Interest Group Inc
Awarded: $1,200
To audio and video record 20 oral histories of past and present residents of Craigieburn.
Cranbourne Shire Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $4,070
The copying to video tape and the conservation of a collection of 16mm film of Cranbourne covering 1920 – 1960 this to be followed by the production of a series of documentary videos base on the 16mm film and still photographs for portable display.
Creswick Primary School
Awarded: $1,080
To present a CD-rom archive containing historical material relating to Creswick Primary School, it will incorporate a photo archive, interactive multi media material, data files extracted from registers and other documents.
Cudgewa Hall Inc
Awarded: $3,380
To preserve and conserve historical photos featuring the history of the Cudgewa area with emphasis on the railway line.
Dandenong and District Historical Society
Awarded: $3,015
Production of a CD Rom based on an unpublished 1970 study of the architecture of the nineteenth century Dandenong.
Darraweit Guim Primary School
Awarded: $1,080
Produce a photographic and archival display that recounts some of the history of Darraweit Guim Primary School (est. 1866).
Dartmouth Community Progress Association
Awarded: $1,608
Produce a photographic and informative exhibition to reflect the construction of Dartmouth Dam and a tribute to those skilled engineers who made it possible.
Daylesford & District Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $9,731
Historic gold mining water race & mining lease mapping project.
Devenish Memorial Sports Club Inc
Awarded: $3,605
Transfer of paper records and photographs onto CD Rom from 1870s to present.
Dimboola and District Historical Society
Awarded: $2,600
Produce a book outlining the history of the substantial Chinese community that existed in our town in the period 1870-1920; to analyse the response of the European community to their presence and to acknowledge their contributions to the community.
Donald History & Natural History Group
Awarded: $3,200
Create a database of the original selectors in the West Wimmera area of Victoria, who selected land under the Land Act of 1869.
East Gippsland Family History Group Inc
Awarded: $2,430
Transcription (to CD-ROM & microfiche) of Bairnsdale cemetery register 1871 – present and monumental inscriptions onto a computer database and publication in CD ROM and microfiche formats.
East Gippsland Shire Council
Awarded: $1,928
To research, collate, record, file and preserve photos, written material, family/personal history, books and artefacts in the Cann River Valley Historical Society, and to distribute this compilation in a document.
East Loddon & District Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $1,500
History of lifetimes of former local shire schools within the former Shire of East Loddon.
Friends of the Robert O’Hara Burke Memorial Museum Inc
Awarded: $10,500
Manuscript based on oral history project: – signposting major events in 20th century Beechworth such as the Great Depression, WW2, and closure of the tannery and of the mental asylum, designation of the forest as a protected area, the manuscript will provide a long-range perspective of change in the environment, in the workplace, home life and of community values in Beechworth.
Gannawarra Library Service
Awarded: $2,500
The Gannawarra Library Service already has significant holdings of newspapers local to the Shire of Gannawarra on microfilm and is endeavouring to complete the existing repository.
Glenelg Shire Council
Awarded: $650
To conserve and provide ready access, to a unique, historical record of significant events in the Willaura, Merino and Casterton districts of south-west Victoria, maintained by members of the Meldrum family from 1834 to the present day.
Goldfields’ Historical and Arts Society Dunolly Inc
Awarded: $1,000
The project will involve the preparation of articles relating to the early history of Burnt Creek (Bromley) and Dunolly, Goldsborough, Beoliba, Moliagul, Timor, Bet and Eddington, all of which were associated with the early gold discovery and development of this part of Central Victoria.
Granya Heritage and School Management Committee Inc
Awarded: $10,982
The history of Bungil and Thologolong Stations from 1836, incorporating the story of Helen Sutherland (which has never been told) and her battle to develop and save the Murray Grey cattle breed which originated at Thologolong Station.
Halls Gap and Grampians Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $931
Copying on slide film the society’s photographic collection, the writing of scripts covering many topics and the purchase of projection equipment will enable us to bring over history more easily and entertainingly to the public.
Hamilton History Centre Inc
Awarded: $1,490
A project to research and record the history of all the Government schools that have existed within the Shire of Southern Grampians and adjoining areas.
Hepburn Shire Council
Awarded: $2,000
Restoration of early maps of Creswick town and mining area.
High Country Library Corporation
Awarded: $3,600
Use professional expertise and technology to both preserve and improve access to the Ned Kelly collection and pictorial resources in the Local History Collection at the Wangaratta Library.
Hobsons Bay Libraries
Awarded: $1,940
To electronically scan deteriorating copies of the Altona Star newspaper from 1960-1980 and preserve them on CD ROM.
Hume City Council
Awarded: $2,734
The project will conserve two important framed photographs, one of Ann Holden, wife of George Evans, pioneer and founder of Sunbury (also regarded as one of the founders of Melbourne); the other a montage of 15 members of one of the state’s early sporting figures.
Kilmore Historical Society
Awarded: $3,015
Preservation and conservation of all document holdings of the Kilmore Historical Society through digitisation using a digital camera.
Koorie Heritage Trust Inc
Awarded: $8,000
The proposed project aims to produce a 100 page publication telling the story of Lang Dean – a man whose own history and the history of his family tell a story of black and white Victorians living together.
Kow Plains Committee of Management
Awarded: $4,225
To compile a book that records the establishment and history of Kow Plains Station and the Township of Cowangie.
Kyneton Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $5,000
To copy onto microfilm 20 volumes of the now defunct Shire of Kyneton Rate Books, in 5 year intervals from 1900 to 1950.
Lakes Entrance Family History Resource Centre Inc
Awarded: $8,850
Oral history project concentrating on the early fishing families of the Gippsland Lakes area.
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $1,755
To accurately document the history of the settlement at the New Works and the role it played in the construction of the entrance to the Gippsland Lakes.
Loch Memorial Reserve Committee
Awarded: $990
To produce a booklet (tentatively titled Reserved Space) that documents the story of the 13 ‘soldiers’ who enlisted for World War 2 at Lock, never returned, and are now remembered by plaques on oak trees at the appropriately named Loch Memorial Reserve.
Macedon Ranges Shire Council
Awarded: $5,820
The creation of a portable visual display that exhibits of the images and profiles of particular women from regional Victoria who were incarcerated at the Sunbury Women’s Refractory at the turn of the Century.
Maldon Museum and Archives Association Inc
Awarded: $1,980
To restore and conserve a register of considerable significance to the community of Maldon.
Mallacoota P-12 College
Awarded: $930
This project will centre on the production of materials, short video and displays about the local history of Mallacoota and surrounding districts.
Mechanics’ Institutes of Victoria
Awarded: $3,450
Produce a travelling exhibition of photographs of mechanics’ institute buildings throughout Victoria.
Merrigum & District Historical & Education Society Inc
Awarded: $1,960
An exhibition of events in Merrigum over the last century.
Midlands Historical Society
Awarded: $3,372
The preservation and conservation of Midlands Historic Society’s photographic and glass lantern slide collection.
Moira Shire Council
Awarded: $9,440
A book on the life of Aboriginal elder, Hilton Hamilton Walsh, carefully transcribed from audio tapes.
Moorabool Shire Council
Awarded: $1,940
Preserve and display the historical photographs of the area for future generations.
Mornington Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $6,530
Storing the past on the future” – a digital display on CDROM featuring enlarged WW1 miniature photographs, a rare collection of glass plate photographs of Mornington Peninsula folk at Federation, and a 1914 facsimile tourist brochure of Marvellous Morning.
Mount Waverley Secondary College
Awarded: $1,226
An outdoor display of historic memorabilia [photos, maps, plan etc] to interpret the history of Lower Homebush, and its school.
Moyne Shire
Awarded: $6,920
Victoria was the only colony to establish a soundly based and dispersed lifeboat service: the book will be referenced and describe the creation, operation and effectiveness of the service (1857-1976) with an assessment of its efficiency.
Museum of Lilydale
Awarded: $3,800
The stabilisation, conservation & cataloguing of the Dandenong Ranges Subdivision Lands Sales Collection.
Newstead & District Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $6,200
The project involves the micro-filming of remaining years (1921 – 1968) of the Newstead Echo.
Nobelius Heritage Park and Emerald Museum Committee of Management
Awarded: $8,670
Publish a 64-page illustrated guide to the Nobelius Heritage Park, Emerald Victoria. The publication will incorporate a history of the Nobelius Nursery with text, maps and historic photographs.
North & West Melbourne Association Inc
Awarded: $2,000
Cataloguing and archiving into the public domain the records of the North & West Melbourne Association from inception in 1967 to the present, which represent the activities of on of the first local community organisations in Melbourne.
North Yarra Community Health
Awarded: $6,200
This project will document and publish the oral histories of older men in Collingwood and also include the exploration of themes such as health, aging and community health with the interviewees.
Oakleigh & District Historical Society
Awarded: $330
To obtain microfiche copies of 65 rate books and negative copies of 600 original photos.
Orbost Womens Awareness Group Inc
Awarded: $2,165
The project ‘Women and Migrants associated with the timber industry in East Gippsland’ has been developed to the point of: the stories collated, proof read, entered into the computer, the photos have been selected, the stories have been perused by a book.
Portland Workskills Inc
Awarded: $1,365
To establish a self-guided heritage walk through the North Portland Cemetery which operated form 1844-1959 – one of Victoria’s most significant cemeteries because of its association of permanent settlement in Victoria.
Pyramid Hill College
Awarded: $11,860
Students at Pyramid Hill College will prepare a detailed record of education provided by 35 schools in the Pyramid Hill District over the past 140 years.
Pyramid Hills Girl Guides Association
Awarded: $1,312
Book detailing 40 years of Girl Guides in Pyramid Hill.
Queenstown Cemetery Trust
Awarded: $1,480
Prepare a history of Queenstown Cemetery.
Redcliffs Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $3,500
Photographic display of the Town’s heritage.
Seymour & District Historical Society
Awarded: $5,675
Publish a book recording memories of events, families and personalities of Seymour and District throughout its history.
Shire of Campaspe
Awarded: $4,500
The project is two fold – researching and formatting heritage plaques for public and private businesses and design of a heritage walk brochure for a self guided tour of the heritage precinct of Echuca.
Snake Valley Historical Society
Awarded: $5,010
To gather information and stories of the past through interviews conducted with long term residents of Snake Valley and then compile these memories into book form for the benefit of the local and wider community.
South Gippsland Shire Council
Awarded: $3,100
Fred Holt, third generation resident, has compiled a manuscript detailing the history of his home town Koonwarra, which looks at its history since white settlement in 1878 to current times.
St Anthony’s Catholic Parish Glen Huntly
Awarded: $2,300
To design and implement a system for the recording, management and dissemination of information concerning the establishment and history of St. Anthony’s in Glen Huntly.
St Georges Presbyterian Church
Awarded: $714
Preservation and conservation of records, photographs, books, artefacts of a Church built in 1860, of which Sir Francis Ormond, Sir James Balfour, Sir Francis Rollard were members, together with prominent early Geelong persons.
St. Andrew’s Kirk, Ballarat
Awarded: $4,000
Catalogue and store to archival standards the Collections of St Andrew’s Kirk and to present a permanent exhibition of selected copies of this material.
Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy Inc
Awarded: $1,850
To photocopy original records of baptisms, marriages, deaths and confirmations of the Anglican Church, Stawell, from 1850-2000.
Strathford Historical Society
Awarded: $770
Oral history of the Dargo district (East Gippsland).
Sunbury Family History Society
Awarded: $364
To transcribe the Monument Inscriptions of the Sunbury Cemetery and the Sunbury Cemetery Register.
Taradale Primary School
Awarded: $4,800
To produce a chronological and detailed record of Taradale Primary School’s 150 year history in forms suitable for public viewing, conserving original documents.
Terang-District Historical Society
Awarded: $811
To produce a brochure depicting historical local sites in order that local people and visitors, including bus tours can view sites and learn about their history.
The Wangaratta High School
Awarded: $1,010
Conservation of the photographic and document archives of the Wangaratta High School heritage collection.
Victorian Folklife Association Inc
Awarded: $2,810
A program introducing primary school students to ‘living history’ and ‘living traditions’ and using oral history to research aspects of the history of their local community, then recording their findings in illustrated book format.
VSDC Services for Deaf Children
Awarded: $3,222
Interview former students and record their school day memories.
Wangaratta Historical Society
Awarded: $2,090
Create a website for the Wangaratta Historical Society.
Warrnambool & District Historical Society Inc
Awarded: $1,960
Produce a small book entitled Warrnambool Industrial & Art Exhibition 1896-7.
Western Victorian Association of Historical Societies
Awarded: $8,750
The joint authors have carefully researched and written the story of Australia’s first commune, ‘Herrnhut’, which was established by Germans under the leadership of Johann Friedrich Krumnow near Mount Ruse in Victoria’s Western District.
Wodonga Family History Society Inc
Awarded: $850
Transcription of the Yackandahah Rate records from inception, in order to transfer them onto microfiche.
Wyuna History Group Inc
Awarded: $4,000
The project will lead to the production of a book recording the oral histories of about 20 people or families that were resident in the Wyuna district during the period 1906 to 1945.