PLOT c/4PPM-78 · version 1 of 1
The writer reports that the first pier at Williamstown was built of boulders from the weathered lava surface.
The first pier (at Williamstown) was a rough stone structure, boulders from the decomposing lava surface being used, as more readily obtained than timber.Historical passage
About Williamstown
- Kind
- Reported by source
- Who said it
- Reported by community
- Period
- 1915
- Checked
- Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification.
- Open questions
- None openOpen questions and challenges are counted publicly; their text is published when they are resolved.
- Where it says so
- The Victorian naturalist, 32, 1915-1916 (on archive.org) (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria) · View in PLOT — p. 70, victoriannatural32fiel, leaf 84, printed page 70
- How they know
- accounts-core@0.1.0: screen_passage@1, extract_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural32fiel, leaf 84, printed page 70
- Limitations
- A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.
- Framework targets
- none linked
- Editions
- october-26th-release
How we found this
- In short
- Found under sourcing protocol accounts-core@0.1.0, for the question "Changes people made", in historical_archives. Screened in on an AI proposal (Claude Opus 5.5 (AI), for review). Extracted with claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract_passage@1; a person reviewed it before publication.
- Protocol
- accounts-core 0.1.0
- Question
- Changes people made
- Channel
- historical_archives
- Query
- Williamstown | Williams Town | Williams-town | Point Gellibrand | Gellibrand's Point | Gellibrand Point | Jawbone | Greenwich Bay in archive.org/victoriannatural32fiel (archive.org OCR text, local full-text match)
- Screening
- include (meets criteria), proposed by AI: The first pier at Williamstown built of boulders from the lava surface.
- Extraction
- claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract_passage@1
- Note
- accounts-core run williamstown-2026-10-23: Internet Archive texts (Victorian Naturalist v.1-37, Letters from Victorian Pioneers) and ALA specimen facets. Trove and BHL blocked: they need API keys.
Cite as: PLOT record c/4PPM-78 v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1915), reported by source
History (1)
- Version 1 (shown here): first published version