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Encyclopedia > Spotswood

Spotswood is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hobsons Bay.


Spotswood is the setting of an Australian film of that name, made in 1992. Russell Crowe was a minor character in that film.


Spotswood is also known for the Victorian Science Museum, known as Scienceworks. Scienceworks is in the old Gas Building of Spotswood.


The suburb was named after Jane Spotswood, wife of Richard Seddon.

City of Hobsons Bay
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Spotswood Family (1674 words)
In 1879 Robert Spotswood bought 560 acres on the south side of Bear Creek in the Platte Valley south of Denver and moved onto the land in 1880.
Spotswood sold the Valley Stock Farm and by 1910 it was known as the MacRose Stock Farm.
After Col. Spotswood's death his widow, Jessie Broad Spotswood, remarried in 1912 to Edward V. Bowles, Sr., the son of Littleton pioneer Joseph W. Bowles, and the couple moved to 1038 West 13th Avenue in Denver.
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