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Shire Of Upper Yarra
The Shire of Upper Yarra was a local government area centred on the upper reaches of the Yarra Valley, about east of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia, extending eastwards into Victoria's interior. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1888 until 1994. History Upper Yarra was incorporated as a shire on 19 October 1888. On 30 May 1919, it annexed the Lauraville Riding of the defunct Howqua Shire (the Howqua riding itself was annexed by the Shire of Mansfield), and on 4 December 1923 and 15 February 1984, it annexed parts of the Shire of Healesville. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room. On 15 December 1994, the Shire of Upper Yarra was abolished, and along with the Shires of Lillydale, Healesville and parts of the Shire of Sherbrooke, was merged into the newly created Shire of Yarra Ranges. Wards The Shire of Upper Yarra was divided into three ridings on 31 March 1909, each of which elected three councillors: * Centre Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yarra Valley
The Yarra Valley is the region surrounding the Yarra River in Victoria, Australia. The river originates approximately east of the Melbourne central business district and flows towards it and out into Port Phillip Bay. The name Yarra Valley is used in reference to the upper regions surrounding the Yarra River and generally does not encompass the lower regions including the city and suburban areas, where the topography flattens out, or the upper reaches which are in inaccessible bushland. Included in the Yarra Valley is the sub-region of the Upper Yarra Valley which encompasses the towns of the former Shire of Upper Yarra in the catchment area upstream of and including Woori Yallock. The Yarra Valley is a popular day-trip and tourist area, featuring a range of natural features and agricultural produce, as well as the Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail. The Yarra Valley is host to a thriving wine growing industry. The area's relatively cool climate makes it particularly suited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Library Of Victoria
State Library Victoria (SLV) is the state library of Victoria, Australia. Located in Melbourne, it was established in 1854 as the Melbourne Public Library, making it Australia's oldest public library and one of the first free libraries in the world. It is also Australia's busiest library and, as of 2018, the world's fourth-most-visited library. The library has remained on the same site in the central business district since it was established fronting Swanston Street, and over time has greatly expanded to now cover a block bounded also by La Trobe, Russell, and Little Lonsdale streets. The library's collection consists of over four million items, which in addition to books includes manuscripts, paintings, maps, photographs and newspapers, with a special focus on material from Victoria, including the diaries of Melbourne founders John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner, the folios of Captain James Cook, and the armour of Ned Kelly. History 19th century In 1853, the decisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoddles Creek, Victoria
Hoddles Creek is a bounded rural locality near Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area. Hoddles Creek recorded a population of 676 at the . Location Hoddles Creek is situated 72 km east of Melbourne's central business district.Google Map It stands on the banks of the Hoddles Creek, which was named after Robert Hoddle. Blackleather Creek also flows through the town. History Hoddles Creek was named for Robert Hoddle (1794–1881), who surveyed the area in 1844. The town developed thanks to the Victorian Gold Rush in the 1860s. It was home to one of the largest minefields in Victoria up until the 1900s. The Post Office opened as Hoddle's Creek on 24 May 1862 and closed 1865. It reopened in 1869 (though known as Warburton from 1874 until 1879) and closed in 1967. In 1916, the Hoddles Creek Primary School was founded to replace other local schools. It still runs to this day. Sir Harrie Massey Sir Harrie Stewart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladysdale, Victoria
Gladysdale is a bounded rural locality in Victoria, Australia, on the Yarra Junction Noojee Road, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges The Shire of Yarra Ranges, also known as Yarra Ranges Council, is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the outer eastern and northeastern suburbs of Melbourne extending into the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges. It has ... local government area. Gladysdale recorded a population of 423 at the . History Gladysdale Post Office opened on 17 July 1914 and closed in 1978. Originally called "Slatey Creek" but was renamed as mail kept going to Slatey Creek up near St Arnaud Victoria. It was renamed after Gladys Petitt, the daughter of the post mistress at the time. The post office was first run by the Victorian Hardwood company, who had the contract for the mail along the tramway at the time. The tram line ran from Powelltown to Yarra Junction. Petitt Lane in Gladysdale is named after the Petitt family who owned land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilderoy, Victoria
Gilderoy is a bounded rural locality in Victoria, Australia, on the Yarra Junction Noojee Road to the west of Powelltown, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges The Shire of Yarra Ranges, also known as Yarra Ranges Council, is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the outer eastern and northeastern suburbs of Melbourne extending into the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges. It has ... local government area. Gilderoy recorded a population of 62 at the 2021 census. History Gilderoy Post Office opened in 1902 and closed in 1976. References {{authority control Towns in Victoria (state) Yarra Valley Yarra Ranges Shire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Valley, Victoria
Don Valley is a town in Victoria, Australia, approximately 70 km east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area. Don Valley recorded a population of 586 at the . A well known farm on Don Valley is Haining Farm, a 65-hectare cattle and dairy farm with Jersey and Friesian cows and other farm animals, located at the entrance of Don River into the Yarra River. It is no longer run as a farm, and is being regenerated into bushland for the Helmeted Honeyeater (Lichenostomus melanops cassidix) a critically endangered bird. Haining Farm is managed by Parks Victoria. Although Don Valley has minimal development, there is the Don Valley Primary School, an archery park, and is home to a satellite fire station for the "Hillcrest" CFA brigade which serves Woori Yallock, Launching Place Launching Place is a town in Victoria, Australia, 54 km east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambarville, Victoria
Cambarville is a bounded rural locality in Victoria, Australia, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges Local government area. Much of its area is part of the Yarra Ranges National Park. It is notable for its giant mountain ash (''Eucalyptus regnans'') trees within the Cumberland Memorial Scenic Reserve, and relics from former sawmills and gold mining. The Big Culvert is located nearby on the Marysville - Woods Point Road, which was historically part of the Yarra Track. Cambarville was established as a timber mill town in the 1940s. Timber mill owners A Cameron and FJ Barton named Cambarville. They established the mill to salvage timber from trees destroyed in the 1939 bushfires. It had a one-teacher primary school, which opened on 2 February 1943, closed in 1945 due to lack of pupils, re-opened again in 1946, and shut down for the last time in 1968. The main classroom was used as a community hub for various social activities, like plays, concerts, and dances. Life in Cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Pats Creek, Victoria
Big Pats Creek is a bounded rural locality in Victoria, Australia to the south of Woods Point Road beyond Warburton, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges The Shire of Yarra Ranges, also known as Yarra Ranges Council, is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the outer eastern and northeastern suburbs of Melbourne extending into the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges. It has ... local government area. Big Pats Creek recorded a population of 60 at the 2021 census. History Big Pats Creek Post Office opened on 21 November 1913 and closed in 1965. References {{authority control Towns in Victoria (state) Yarra Valley Yarra Ranges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beenak, Victoria
Beenak is a bounded rural locality in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, to the north of the Bunyip State Park, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Beenak recorded a population of 17 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. History Beenak Post Office opened on 1 July 1878 and closed in 1951. References {{authority control Towns in Victoria (Australia) Yarra Valley Yarra Ranges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Business District
A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the " city centre" or " downtown". However, these concepts are not necessarily synonymous: many cities have a central ''business'' district located away from its commercial and or cultural centre and or downtown/city centre, and there may be multiple CBDs within a single urban area. The CBD will often be characterised by a high degree of accessibility as well as a large variety and concentration of specialised goods and services compared to other parts of the city. For instance, Midtown Manhattan, New York City, is the largest central business district in the city and in the United States. London's city centre is usually regarded as encompassing the historic City of London and the medieval City of Westminster, while the City of London and the trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matlock, Victoria
Matlock is a rural locality in Victoria, Australia, located about 140 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, located within the Shires of Mansfield and Yarra Ranges local government areas. Matlock recorded a population of 7 at the 2021 census. The locality is named after the township that existed at two separate locations from the early 1860s to about the 1930s. The rural locality is along the Walhalla Road (between Marysville and Walhalla), about 140 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, high in the Victorian alpine region on the Great Dividing Range. The location of Matlock township from the early 1860s to 1873 is on a barren hilltop known as the Matlock Hill Historical Area, marked by a snow shelter at the roadside picnic area and the remnants of a cemetery. At 1,213 metres (3,979 feet) above sea-level at its first location Matlock was the highest township in Victoria. History The hilltop township In December 1863 the policeman Sub-Inspector Brook Smith was travelling in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baw Baw Plateau
The Baw Baw National Park is a national park located on the boundary between the Victorian Alps and Gippsland regions of Victoria, Australia. The national park is situated approximately east of Melbourne and north of the Latrobe Valley. The park contains the forest covered Baw-Baw Plateau and surrounds the Mount Baw Baw Alpine Resort. The Baw-Baw Plateau has a number of peaks, that includes Mount Baw Baw, Mount St Gwinear, Mount St Phillack, Mount Erica and Mount Whitelaw; all largely subalpine terrane outcrops of weathered granite boulders rising from the plateau, which is covered by a forest of snow-gums, punctuated by meadows. Mount St Phillack, a granite hill on the Baw-Baw plateau standing at above sea level is the park's highest peak as the slightly higher Mt Baw Baw peak is part of the ski resort area. The slopes of the plateau within the national park form the catchment areas for the Thomson River and the Thomson Reservoir, and the Tanjil and Tyers rivers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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