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Part of "Plan of Village and Nine Mile Reserve, Horsham", showing proposed site for botanic gardens. Map is dated 17 August 1876. Hand-written note on map says "Bot Garden 32 ac". Also states that land "floods during winter" and "timbered with oak and box". File No. 0203144, Department of Sustainability and Environment records, Horsham.
Detail from previous map, with later annotations. Department of Sustainability and Environment records, Horsham.
Part of map "Horsham, County of Borung", dated 18 December 1878, showing Police Reserve as 40 acres and 27 perches. File No. 0203144, Department of Sustainability and Environment records, Horsham.
Plan ‘Township of Horsham’, originally dated 2nd March 1855, but with "Police Reserve" crossed out and ‘Botanical Gardens’ inserted (hence additions must be post-1878). From Reserves File RS 4161 ‘Horsham Botanical Gardens, Recreation & Tourist Camping Reserve’, held by the Department of Sustainability & Environment, in Horsham.
Detail from previous map, with later annotations and showing buildings of police station and court house. Department of Sustainability and Environment records, Horsham.
Plan for botanic gardens produced by W. M. Guilfoyle, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne in 1880.The plan is inscribed ‘Designed by W R Guilfoyle, Drawn by Robert P Whitworth, 1880’. In the care of the Horsham Historical Society.
Map dated 1928, showing reserve marked vas Botanical Gardens. File No. 0203144, Department of Sustainability and Environment records, Horsham.
"Horsham Botanic Gardens. Revised layout by E. E. Lord (curator). Adopted by town council August 7 1936". Document held by Horsham Rural City Council.
Part of map of Horsham, with additions made by hand in 1989. Reserve is marked " Botanical Gardens Recreational Reserve and Tourist Camp". File No. 0203144, Department of Sustainability and Environment records, Horsham.
Copy of previous map, but with various zones within the reserve coloured and labelled. File No. 0203144, Department of Sustainability and Environment records, Horsham.
Plans showing proposed levee bank. Dated 10 December 1975. File No. 0203144, Department of Sustainability and Environment records, Horsham.
Plan for Baker Strees extension to run through the Botanic Gardens Reserve. Dated 1996. File No. 0203144, Department of Sustainability and Environment records, Horsham.
Part of UBD Map of Horsham, showing Baker Street extension passing through the reserve. File No. 0203144, Department of Sustainability and Environment records, Horsham.
Undated plan of formal gardens , showing rose garden, display garden and other features added in the 1980s and 1990s. Document held by Horsham Rural City Council.
Cadastral map prepared by Survey & Mapping Victoria. File No. 0203144, Department of Sustainability and Environment records, Horsham.
Map of Botanic Gardens Reserve. Produced of part of a draft Master Plan, by Jill Orr-Young, Landscape Architects in 2003. Document held by Horsham Rural City Council.
Map of formal gardens, showing numbered trees. Produced of part of a draft Master Plan, by Jill Orr-Young, Landscape Architects in 2003. Document held by Horsham Rural City Council.
Map of formal gardens December 2007, showing the revised zones and beds. Document held by Horsham Rural City Council.
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