Towns and Localities
Shire of Alpine

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Abbeyard
Approximate Location: Locality 40 km south of Myrtleford on the upper Buffalo River.
Comments: Cattle area.

Barwidgee Creek
Approximate Location: About 10km north east of Myrtleford.
Comments: Not sure if Barwidgee and Barwidgee Creek are the same place or just very close to each other.
Dairying and tobacco growing settlement. Barwidgee station held by John Buckland in 1844.
Initially called Myrtle Creek. Also called Waterloo and Waterloo Reef in its earlier days.
Schools:  SS1577 opened in 1875, and was part-time with SS2635 Buffalo Creek from 1887 until it resumed full-time in 1901. It closed in 1926 and re-opened part-time with SS1516 Buffalo River in 1931 resuming full-time operation in 1932 before closing in early 1933.
Buildings: A Mechanics' Institute hall previously existed and may or may not have survived (details of it are unknown).

Barwidgee North
Approximate Location: Possibly 5km south of Mudgeegonga and 10km east of Barwidgee Creek.
Comments: Also called Black's Flat.
Schools:  SS3084 opened in 1891 and closed in 1894.

Barwidgee Settlement
Approximate Location: Believed to be about 2km SW of Rosewhite.

Beveridges Station
Approximate Location: Locality 15km west of Hotham Heights and about the same distance SE of Buckland Junction.
Comments: Cattle area.

Bogong
Approximate Location: Halfway between Mount beauty and Falls Creek.
Schools:  SS4590 opened in 1941 and closed some time after 1970.

Brandy Creek
Approximate Location: 10-15km east of Hotham Heights.

Bright
Approximate Location: Halfway between Wangaratta and Omeo on the Great Alpine Road.
Comments: Gold discovered 1856 although some gold appears to be found as early as 1853. Originally called Morses Creek after a prospector W. Morse and renamed in August 1862 after English publisher John Bright.
Schools: Private, Protestant and Catholic schools operated in the town in the 1860s. School #434 was run by the Catholic Church with government aid in 1864 and later as a private school.
In 1866 Morse�s Creek Common School 776 opened on its current site in Park St. It became a Higher Elementary School in 1918.It closed some time between 1970 - 2003
In 1872 SS1157 Morse�s Creek opened and it closed in 1894.
Churches: In the early 1860s, Rev J. W. Crisp travelled from Beechworth to provide occasional Methodist services in Bright and Wandiligong until Rev Thomas Edmeades was stationed there in 1865.
Buildings: A Court of Petty Sessions first sat in the town in 1861. In 1862 a court house was built in Park Street. The last court sat in 1990.
A Mechanics' Institute was in existence in a timber building for some time prior to being replaced by the Free Library on the same site in 1910.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery Click here.
Museum: Click here.
Newspapers: Click here.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

Brocket
Approximate Location: About 8km south of Mt Hotham/Hotham Heights on the Upper Dargo River.
Short history: Gold mining town in the 1860s. Main area was best known as Centreville with surrounding settlements of Big Flat and Eureka flat. Mines included the Eureka, Evening Star and Morning Star. Peak population of 100+ and included three stores, 'restaurant', boarding house and Post office. Miners still worked around Brocket until the 1880s.

Brookside
Approximate Location: About 6km south of Porepunkah.
Comments: Area once called Devils Creek.
Schools: SS1663 open in 1876 initially called Devils Creek. It worked part-time with SS1029 Buckland Lower for some period after 1893. It closed in 1943.

Buckeye Creek
Approximate Location: 10 south of Bright.

Buckland
Approximate Location: 20 km SW of Bright.
Comments: Thomas Buckland was a squatter here in 1845, gold discovered about 1853. Township was surveyed and proclaimed in 1865.
Schools: The Catholic Church opened a school (#98) in 1860 and closed in 1871 when SS1029 opened at Buckland Lower. A Presbyterian School (#108) operated for an unknown time prior to its closure in 1865.
SS1029 opened at Lower Buckland (a few kilometres north of Buckland) in 1871, worked part-time with SS1663 Brookside for some period after 1893 and closed in 1921.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

Buckland Junction
Approximate Location: 25km SW of Bright (as the crow flows) and 7km south of Buckland. It is situated on the junction of the east and west branches of the Buckland River.
Schools: A school house was built at Buckland Upper (near Buckland Junction) in January 1869 but it was destroyed by fire the same month. Another school was built and SS 917 Upper Buckland opened in 1871. The school worked half-time with SS1703 Miners Right in 1886 and 1887 and again between 1893 to 1898. In 1903 the school worked part-time with SS1029 Lower Buckland. The school closed in 1918.

Buffalo Creek
Approximate Location: 4km south of Myrtleford.
Schools: SS2635 opened in 1884, was working part-time firstly with SS1355 Eurobin for a number of years and then part-time with SS1577 Barwidgee Creek from 1887 until 1900. In 1901 it was operating full-time, and was again part-time with SS2940 Woodaja (Happy Valley) in 1903, before closing in 1904.
Buildings: A public hall previously existed and may or may not have survived (details of it are unknown).

Buffalo River
Approximate Location: 8km south of Myrtleford.
Schools: SS1516 opened in 1875 and closed in 1898. It re-opened in 1903 part-time with SS3454 Buffalo River South and resumed full-time operation in 1908. In 1928 the school was again part-time with SS3454 Buffalo River South and in 1931/2 with SS1577 Barwidgee Creek. From 1932 until 1936 the school was part-time with SS4510 Dandongadale and closed in 1948.
SS3454 Buffalo River South (exact location unknown) opened part-time with SS1516 Buffalo River in 1903, became full-time in 1908 and closed in 1918. It re-opened in late1921 and closed in late 1922. It re-opened in 1925, was part-time with SS1516 Buffalo River from 1928 to 1931. It resumed full-time operation in 1932, but finally closed in 1948.
Buildings: A public hall no longer survives (details of it are unknown).

Clover Flat
Approximate Location: A locality a couple of kilometres north of Bogong.

Coral Bank
Approximate Location: 20km NNW of Mount Beauty.
Schools: See Mullindolingong school.
Cemetery: For details of the old Mullindong cemetery at Coral Bank look at the Tawonga (Old) cemetery here.

Croppers Creek
Approximate Location: Somewhere near where Lake Buffalo now exists, some 15km south of Myrtleford.
Comments: A small "settlement" that existed at least in the 1880s.

Dandongadale
Approximate Location: 30km south of Myrtleford on the Buffalo River Road.
Comments: Dandongadale was also name of local station taken up in 1845 and originally called Dandongetty. Dadonga was the name of a local aboriginal chief. Was also called Dondangadale for some time.
Schools: SS4510 opened in 1932 part-time with SS1516 Buffalo River becoming full-time in 1936 and closing in 1948.

Dederang
Approximate Location: Halfway between Wodonga and Mount Beauty on the Kiewa Valley Highway.
Comments: Aboriginal word for hailstones. Township surveyed in 1887 and proclaimed in 1914.
Schools: SS1772 opened sometime around 1880, operated part-time with SS2818 Dederang North from 1887 until December 1900, worked part-time with SS3403 Mongans Bridge in 1903 and was still operating in 2003.
See also Glen Creek for details of the Dederang North school.
Buildings: A Mechanics' Institute hall no longer survives (details of it are unknown).
Cemetery: For details see the Dederang Cemetery.

Dingo Dell
Approximate Location: Locality in the Mount Buffalo National Park about 15km SW of Porepunkah.

Dinner Plain
Approximate Location: Modern snow resort 10km SE of Hotham Heights on the Great Alpine Road.

Eureka Flat
Approximate Location: Tiny historic settlement near the Eureka mine about 10km south of Hotham Heights.

Eurobin
Approximate Location: Halfway between Myrtleford and Bright.
Comments: Aboriginal word for lagoon at the foot of a mountain. Called Black Springs until 1870.
Schools: Rural School 90 first opened in 1869, closed temporarily and re-opened in 1870. Became SS1355 in 1874. It worked half-time with SS2635 Buffalo Creek from 1884 to 1887. It closed in 1893 and the building moved to Yackandandah in 1899. A new school was built on the original site and opened in 1906. It closed in 1959 and the building moved to Carboor Upper.

Falls Creek
Approximate Location: Snow resort 20km SE of Mount Beauty in the Alpine National Park.
Comments: Initially called Horseshoe Creek.

Freeburgh
Approximate Location: About 8km SE of Bright.
Comments: Township surveyed in 1876 and proclaimed in 1905.
Schools: SS895 was operating in 1867 and maybe as early as 1865. In 1878 the original building was sold and became the public library. The school closed in 1948.
Buildings: A small timber Mechanics' Institute was built about 1879 and was replaced by a bigger building in 1905. The building is now called the Freeburgh Hall and is also known as Library Hall and Athenaeum Hall.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.

Gapsted
Approximate Location: 5km NW of Myrtleford.
Comments: Previous names were Quartz Reef (after a hotel), Stoney Creek, Goat Town, Palmerston and Gapstead.
Schools: SS1407 Stony Creek opened in 1875 with two school houses, one at Stony Creek (later to become Palmerston and then Gapsted) and the other at Trapps Corner (later to become Ovens Vale, or just Ovens). In 1880, the school at Stony Creek became SS2240 Palmerston (as the place was then called). In 1908 the school was renamed Gapsted to bring it into line with the name of the Post Office and with general usage. The school closed in 1951.

Germantown
Approximate Location: 5km east of Bright on the junction of the Ovens River and German Creek.
Comments: Ghost gold town.
Cemetery: For details of the remnants of a  cemetery click here.

Glen Creek
Approximate Location: 10km WNW of Dederang.
Schools: SS2818 Dederang North opened in 1887 operating part-time with SS17772 Dederang until 1900. In 1901 it was operating full-time and part-time with SS3533 Bruarong in 1909. The school closed in 1926, re-opened in 1929 and finally closed in 1953 when the Kiewa Valley Consolidated School opened at Tangambalanga.

Gundowring Upper
Approximate Location: Just over 10km south of Gundowring.
Schools: SS2733 opened in 1886 and months later was operating part-time with SS2781 Running Creek Bridge, It resumed full-time operation in 1888. In 1907 the school worked part-time with SS3403 Mongans Bridge and in 1909 was part-time with SS3576 Palmers Creek and closed in 1953.
Also see: Gundowring and Gundowring North on the Shire of Indigo webpage.

Happy Valley
Approximate Location: Locality 10km SE of Myrtleford.
Comments: Was a goldfield in 1855.
Schools: SS2940 Happy Valley opened in 1889. Later that year the school was renamed Woodaja (a local native name). In 1896 the school became half-time with SS1036/1076 Running Creek and closed in 1904.

Harrietville
Approximate Location: Halfway between Bright and Mt Hotham at the foothills of the Great Dividing Range.
Comments: Gold discovered 1852. Named after Mrs Harriet Luke. Township surveyed and proclaimed in 1879.
Schools: Common School 843 opened in 1866 and is still operating.
Buildings: The Harrietville Hall and Athenaeum is in existence (details of it are unknown).
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

Havilah
Approximate Location: About 20km ESE of Myrtleford and a couple of kilometres south of Rosewhite.
Comments: Goldfield town circa 1855. Now a rural locality.
Cemetery: For details see the Running Creek/Havilah Cemetery.

Hotham Heights
Approximate Location: Halfway between Bright and Omeo situated on the watershed of the Great Dividing Range.
Comments: Initially the site of an early hotel on the road over the Great Dividing Range, now a large snow resort.
Not to be confused with the municipality of Hotham in the mid 1800s (which is the area around North Melbourne).
Schools: Common School 843 opened in 1866 and is still operating.

Kancoona
Approximate Location: Locality some 30km NW of Mt Beauty and west of the Kiewa Valley Highway.
Schools: SS3576 Palmers Creek opened some time about 1908, appears to have been operating part-time with SS2733 Gundowring Upper in 1909. In 1917 and 1918 it worked part-time with SS3403 Mongans Bridge. The school was renamed Kancoona in 1925 and closed some time after 1970.

Kancoona South
Approximate Location: Locality some 4km South of Kancoona.
Schools: SS4618 Kancoona South opened in 1945 and closed in 1952.

Loch Glen
Approximate Location: A few kilometres south of Hotham heights.

Louisville
Approximate Location: About 13km south of Mt Hotham/Hotham Heights on the Upper Dargo River.
Short history: Gold mining town from the 1860s to c1880. Possibly named after an early publican J Louis Hanckar. Gold initially found on the Upper Dargo by John Bromley in 1863 Had a Post office and Hotel.

Mayford
Approximate Location: About 7km south of Dinner Plain on the Upper Dargo River.
Short history: Gold mining town from the 1860s to mid 1870s. Mayford was the site of King's store on the Grant to Omeo track. A town was surveyed but never developed. A 130 year old pear tree still exists and fruits.

Merriang
Approximate Location: A few kilometres west of Myrtleford.
Comments: Murreang is a variant name.
Schools: SS4209 Merriang Estate opened in 1926 and closed in 1942.

Merriang South
Approximate Location: A few kilometres SW of Myrtleford.

Miners Right
Approximate Location: 6km south of Buckland Junction.
Schools: SS1703 opened in 1876 and closed in 1885. It re-opened in 1886 working part-time with SS971 Buckland Upper until 1887 and again in 1893 until it closed in 1898.

Mongans Bridge
Approximate Location: 5km SE of Running Creek and a few kilometres north of Coral Bank.
Schools: SS3403 opened in 1902, worked part-time with SS1772 Dederang in 1903, resumed full-time operation in 1904, worked part-time with SS2733 Gundowring Upper in 1907 and 1908, resumed full-time operation in 1909, worked part-time with SS3576 Palmers Creek in 1917 and 1918, resumed full-time operation in 1919, closed in 1923, re-opened 1932, closed 1940, re-opened 1943 and finally closed in 1964.

Mount Beauty
Approximate Location: About 70km SSE of Wodonga on the Kiewa Valley Highway.
Comments: Town established by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria in 1947.
Schools: SS4644 opened in 1950 (although a separate school may have existed in 1948) and was still operational in 2003. It became a Higher Elementary School in the 1950s and when a separate High school was proclaimed in 1963, 4644 reverted to a Primary School. Both the Primary and High Schools were still operational in 2003.
Newspapers: Click here.

Mount Buffalo
Approximate Location: About 15km west of Bright.

Mudgeegonga
Approximate Location: 15km NE of Myrtleford.
Schools: SS2171 opened in 1879 and closed some time after 1970.
Buildings:  The Mudgeegonga Public Hall and Free Library was opened in 1888.and was replaced by the Mudgeegonga Public Hall in 1957.

Mullindolingong
Approximate Location: On the Kiewa Valley Highway 15km NW of Mt Beauty.
Comments: Also name of local station taken up in 1846.
Schools: About 1881 SS2551 opened part-time with SS2282 Tawonga (being located very close to the other school) and closed in 1894. The school re-opened in 1923 at Mullindolingong, was renamed Coral Bank in 1949 and finally closed in 1954.
See also Coral Bank school.
Cemetery: For details of the old Mullindong cemetery at Coral Bank look at the Tawonga (Old) cemetery here.

Myrtleford
Approximate Location: 40km SE of Wangaratta on the Great Alpine Road.
Comments: Was called Myrtle Creek Village prior to 1858.
Although some minor amounts of gold were found in 1852/3, the first major gold find was in 1854 near the junction of the Ovens River and Barwidgee  Creek. In the next few years other gold was found on the Happy Valley Creek and at Palmerston.
Schools: The Church of England opened a school (#440) in 1862 but it closed later the same year.
A school (#955) opened in 1868. Secondary classes began in 1927. This school has since closed.
The current primary school is SS6241.
A High School developed out of a Higher Elementary School in 1960.
Churches: Methodist services were conducted in the Athenaeum prior to the opening of the church in October 1885.
Between 1885 and 1887, a brick Presbyterian church (St Andrews) was built in Smith Street.
Buildings: The Myrtleford Athenaeum no longer survives (details of it are unknown).
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery Click here.
Newspapers: Click here.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

Nug Nug
Approximate Location: 15km south of Myrtleford on the edge of the Mount Buffalo National Park. Situated on the Nug Nug Wa Creek which feeds into the Buffalo River
Comments: Probably named after the Nog Nog Wah station taken up in 1848 as Nog Nog Wah was an alternate name.

Ovens
Approximate Location: 5km SE of Myrtleford.
Comments: Initially called Trapps Corner. Also known as Ovens Vale.
Schools: SS1407 Trapp�s Corner opened in 1874. From 1874 to 18779 it was operating part-time with SS1407 Stony Creek (Gapsted). In 1896 the name of the school was changed to Ovens Vale. The school closed in 1950.

Porepunkah
Approximate Location: 5km NW of Bright.
Comments: Previously called Ovens Crossing. Variants of the name were Point Punkah and Port Punkah. The township was surveyed in 1880 and proclaimed in 1919.
Schools: Common School 1144 opened in 1873, became a State School in 1875. It is still operational in 2003.
Buildings: A public hall is in existence (details of it are unknown). 
Cemetery: For details of the no longer existent cemetery click here.

Robbers Roost
Approximate Location: Locality about 5 km north of Falls Creek.

Rosewhite
Approximate Location: 20km ESE of Myrtleford.
Comments: Known as Happy Valley [Estate] until 1937.
Schools: SS4023 Happy Valley Estate opened in 1920 and closed in 1952.
SS4535 Rosewhite opened in 1935 and closed in 1936.

Rostrevor
Approximate Location: Just NW of Eurobin.
Schools: SS4482 opened in 1931 and closed in 1952.

Running Creek
Approximate Location: Halfway between Mt Beauty and Yackandandah on the Kiewa Valley Highway.
Schools: SS1036 (or was it 1076) opened in 1870 and worked part-time with SS2940 Happy Valley until it closed in 1903.
SS2781 Running Creek Bridge opened in late 1886 part-time with SS2733 Gundowring Upper, resumed full-time operation in 1888 and closed in 1890.
Cemetery: For details see the Running Creek/Havilah Cemetery.

Selwyn
Approximate Location: Locality about 15 km SW of Hotham Heights.

Slippery Pinch
Approximate Location: About 15km east of Hotham Heights the Great Alpine Road.

Smoko
Approximate Location: 15km SE of Bright on the Great Alpine Road.
Schools: SS2594 Smoko Creek opened in 1884 and closed in 1896.

South Selwyn
Approximate Location: Alpine locality about 20km SW of Hotham Heights. Next to Mt Selwyn.

Tawonga
Approximate Location: About 10km NW of Mount Beauty on the Kiewa Valley Highway.
Comments: Also the name of a local station taken up in 1841. A variant of the name is Tawanga.
Schools: SS2282 Tawonga opened in 1880 and was still operating in 2003.
Buildings: A public hall previously existed and may or may not have survived (details of it are unknown).
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.

Tawonga South
Approximate Location: Just NW of Mount Beauty
Schools: SS4614 opened in 1945 and closed some time after 1970.

Tuckerbox Corner
Approximate Location: About 15km west of Bright in the Mt Buffalo National Park.

Wandiligong
Approximate Location: 5km south of Bright.
Comments: William Forlonge squatted here in 1843 and gold discovered 1853. Wullundigong is an aboriginal word for spirit, ghost or little bushman. The town is situated on Growler's Creek which was the town's original name. Wandiligong was surveyed and proclaimed in 1888.
Schools: A Presbyterian school opened in 1860 and became a Common School (#275) in 1862. It closed in 1875 due to a measles outbreak. A new school building was constructed and opened in 1877. It is still operating in 2003.
Churches: In the early 1860s, Rev J. W. Crisp travelled from Beechworth to provide occasional Methodist services in Bright and Wandiligong until Rev Thomas Edmeades was stationed there in 1865.
A timber Anglican church (Holy Trinity) was built in 1865 on Morses Creek Road.
Buildings:  A small brick Mechanics' Institute hall was built about 1878. In 1961 it became part of the Wangaratta Regional Library. I am unsure whether it is still operating as a library.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

White Timber
Approximate Location: 25km south of Hotham Heights (as the crow flies).

Wonnangatta
Approximate Location: Old historic station on the southern side of the Great Dividing Range and in the Alpine National Park. Not near any major settlement. East of Mt Buller, West of Hotham Heights.

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