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History repeats at Churchill Island

The launch of the third edition of Churchill Island History and Her Story.

01 Feb 2022

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Churchill Island played a critical role in the history of Victoria.

As tiny as the 57 hectare land mass is, Churchill Island, off Phillip Island, has played its own critical role in the history of Victoria. The island was the site of the first European crop of wheat grown in this state, after Lieutenant James Grant...

23 Feb 2022

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Samuel Amess

Samuel Amess was mayor of Melbourne from 1869–1870

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29 Jul 2020

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Island life at Churchill

As tiny as the 57 hectare land mass is, Churchill Island has played its own critical role in the history of Victoria. The island was the site of the first European crop of wheat grown in this state, after Lieutenant James Grant disembarked from the...

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29 Jul 2020

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The Lady Nelson on Churchill Island in 1801.

Lieutenant James Grant during the course of a survey of Western Port disembarked from the Lady Nelson on Churchill Island in 1801

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29 Jul 2020

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This photo shows Samuel Amess leaning on the verandah talking to a visitor. Samuel entertained many of Melbourne’s elite at Churchill Island throughout the summer months. Ivy was commonly grown on houses of the era to cool the house in summer

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29 Jul 2020

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Samuel Amess built the homestead on the island and planted the Norfolk Island pine in 1872. The photo of Rogers Cottages (1860s) shows Amess’s servants and their children posed outside the cottages

Harry Jenkins - who owned CI from 1936 til his death in 1963 - his paraplegic son Ted at the cannon in the CI garden

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29 Jul 2020

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Churchill Island canon

Legend has it that the cannon in the garden came from the CSS Shenandoah, a warship of the Confederates States in the American Civil War, given to Samuel Amess, however there is no historical evidence to support this claim, with the canon’s...

29 Jul 2020