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In the early 1960s, real estate developers Willmore and Randell acquired 1,300 acres (530 ha) in Clifton Springs, with a 2-mile (3.2 km) frontage to Corio Bay. The developers engaged Victor Gruen and Associates , noted US planners of shopping centres and resorts, to design a country club estate with 5000 house lots, which they dubbed "Clifton ...
Clifton Springs is the name of several places, Clifton Springs, New York , a village located within Ontario County, New York, USA Clifton Springs, Victoria , a coastal town overlooking Corio Bay, approximately 20 km east of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
This is a list of historic houses or notable homesteads located in Australia.The list has been sourced from a variety of national, state and local historical sources including those listed on the Australian Heritage Database, on the various heritage registers of the States and territories of Australia, or by the National Trust of Australia.
Clifton Creek is a locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. [2] In the 2016 census, Clifton Creek had a population of 237 people. [1] Clifton Creek Primary School (No. 3684) opened in 1911. It operated part-time or closed at various times as enrolment levels fluctuated, but had enough students for two teachers from the ...
A 1925 view of the area that became Norlane. The Princes Highway (Melbourne Road), near Cowies Creek, in 1957. The Ford Motor Company factory is visible in the background.. In the 2001 Australian Bureau of Statistics Census of Population and Housing, the population of the Norlane census area was 8,628 people, in an area of 5.1 square kilometres.
In 1850 Alexander Thomson offered 93 allotments for sale, as the township of Belmont, between Mount Pleasant and Roslyn Roads. Further land sales occurred in 1886, when 25 acres (100,000 m 2) of Crown land was offered for sale in 25 allotments. The economic depression of the 1890s temporarily curbed land sales.
Frankston (/ ˈ f r æ ŋ k s t ə n / ⓘ FRANK-stən) is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Located 54 km (34 mi) south-east of the Melbourne city centre via the Monash Freeway and EastLink, it is in the local government area of the City of Frankston and serves as its administrative and activity centres.
In 1887, Charles James and James Grigg purchased, surveyed and subdivided land into 2,500 blocks bearing the covenant "no part of the above Land shall be used for the Manufacture or Sale of Malted Spirituous, or Vinous Liquors". Due to this covenant, no bars or public houses could sell liquor within the town limits.