Heritage listing for Castlemaine Military Quarters
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A building that once housed military forces on Castlemaine's goldfields has been added to the Victorian Heritage Register.
The former Castlemaine Military Quarters was built in 1854 and was used to keep law and order on the goldfields.
Heritage council chairwoman Chris Gallagher says the military was withdrawn from the goldfields after the Eureka uprising.
She says the military presence was extremely unpopular and contributed to the uprising in 1854.
"This has now been established to be a really important building in the history of Victoria, it has had local planning scheme protection before, but we now know it to be the only surviving building constructed to accommodate the goldfields' military forces, which were fairly influential until about the late 1850s," she said.
