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Eureka Street, Ballarat East, 3350
Opened: 1 November 1870
Closed: 31 December 1993
Primary school
School number: 1071
Other names: Specimen Hill, Specimen Hill Common School, Ballarat (Eureka Street), Ballarat Common School
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