by | | Charles Grimes - survey of Port Phillip
Board 5: The Surveyor General’s Tribute On the following day, Sunday February 2nd, the Surveyor General of Victoria, Keith Bell, addressed the crowd at the City Event. Inspired by the event, Keith Bell commissioned a plaque for the place that the Grimes party...
by | | Charles Grimes - survey of Port Phillip
Board 4: Four Councils Flemming’s Journal describes the party’s movements into Port Phillip then onto and upstream in both the Maribyrnong and Yarra Rivers.They came across the entrance to the Yarra and the Maribyrnong on February 2nd and explored and surveyed...
by | | Charles Grimes - survey of Port Phillip
Board 3: 2003 Re-enactment Event Re-enactment in February 2003 for Grimes Expedition of 1803. On the weekend of February the 1st and 2nd, 2003, Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West in partnership with Friends of the Maribyrnong Valley celebrated the...
by | | Charles Grimes - survey of Port Phillip
Board 2: The Most Eligible Place for a Settlement ‘The most eligible place for a settlement I have seen is on the freshwater river’. Do these words sound familiar? Perhaps the phrase, ‘This is the place for a village’, rings a bell. That famous statement attributed to...
by | | Charles Grimes - survey of Port Phillip
Board 1: Introduction In 1802 the third governor of New South Wales, Governor King, sent the Surveyor General of New South Wales, Charles Grimes to explore King Island, Western Port, and Port Phillip, then the southern parts of the colony of New South Wales. Port...