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The Pioneer W omen’s Shelter design was comissioned in 1997 by
St Albans History Society and was designed and built by Melbourne’s
Living Museum of the West on the banks of the Maribyrnong River in Pipemakers
Park.
This design, by artist and museum associate Kerrie Poliness, was a collaboration
with Joan Carstairs and Maureen Lane authors and members of St Albans
History Society. Sales of their popular book ‘Pubs, Punts and Pastures’,
a history of pioneer women from Ireland, funded the design and construction
of the shelter.
The shelter, on the west bank of the Maribyrnong River, (as well as
commemorating Irish pioneer women in general) is dedicated to six women
in particular whose contribution to society was especially substantial.
Many of these women were buried in unmarked graves, their six names
are inscribed within.
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