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The Eureka Stockade Memorial Park (also known as the Eureka Stockade Reserve) is believed to encompass the site of the Battle of the Eureka Stockade that was fought in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, on 3 December 1854. Records of "Eureka Day" ceremonies at the site of the battle go back to 1855.
Grants from the City of Ballarat and the Victorian and Federal Governments led to the redevelopment of the site and the establishment of the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka (M.A.D.E.) in 2013. MADE closed in March 2018. In its place, the Eureka Centre Ballarat opened in April 2018 as a City of Ballarat owned and operated service.
The Eureka Stockade Monument is situated at the presumed site of the Battle of the Eureka Stockade. It is located on the Eureka Stockade Memorial Park in Ballarat , Victoria . A public meeting was held on 16 April 1884 to discuss the construction of a permanent monument in honour of the event.
Eureka Centre Ballarat is an interpretive centre in the Eureka Stockade Memorial Park. It features a small permanent exhibition on the Eureka Rebellion and houses the Eureka Flag, which has been on loan from the Art Gallery of Ballarat since 2013. [1] It also hosts lectures and a café, Lilly’s at Eureka.
Charles Alphonse Doudiet (1832 - 13 June 1913) was a Swiss-born Canadian artist and digger present at the Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, in the British Colony of Victoria (now Australia), in 1854. His sketchbook, discovered by his descendants in 1996, has provided contemporary images of events connected to the Eureka Rebellion , that were important ...
Eureka Rediscovered: In search of the site of the historic stockade. Ballarat: University of Ballarat. ISBN 978-0-90-802664-7. O'Brien, Bob (1992). Massacre at Eureka: The untold story. Kew: Australian Scholarly Publishing. ISBN 978-1-87-560604-7. Withers, William (1999). History of Ballarat and Some Ballarat Reminiscences. Ballarat: Ballarat ...
The Eureka Encyclopedia. Ballarat: Ballarat Heritage Services. ISBN 978-1-87-647861-2. FitzSimons, Peter (2012). Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution. Sydney: Random House Australia. ISBN 978-1-74-275525-0. Harvey, Jack (1994). Eureka Rediscovered: In search of the site of the historic stockade. Ballarat: University of Ballarat. ISBN 978-0-90 ...
The first permanent oval used by the North Ballarat Football Club was established in 1963 in the centre of the defunct Ballarat Showgrounds harness racing track formerly used by the Ballarat and District Trotting Club as its main venue between 1952 and 1966. A new all-weather oval (dimensions 170 by 140 metres (560 ft × 460 ft)) replaced the ...