Towns and Localities
Shire of Mansfield

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This page contains short details of towns (or localities) in the current Shire of Mansfield. The Shire of Delatatite was formed in about 1994 when all Victorian councils were amalgamated, but in 2002 the Shire of Delatite was split into the Shire of Mansfield and the Rural City of Benalla.

For a map of this shire click HERE.

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small green ball Castle Point (see A1 Mine Settlement)
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small green ball Cherry's Point (see Wood's Point)
small green ball Clarke Point (see Brooklyn Town)
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small green ball Hayfield (see Ancona)
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small green ball Montgomery (see Wyeton)
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small green ball Mutton Town (see Matlock)
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small green ball Tobacco Flat (see  Howqua Hills)
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small green ball Toorak (see Thackeray)
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A1 Mine Settlement
Approximate Location: 25km south of Jamieson on Mansfield-Woods Point Road.
Comments: Gold mining town from 1862 until closure in 1992. Proposed name was Castle Point.
Schools: SS3462 opened in 1903, closed 1905, burnt down 1908, re-opened 1909 for a few months, re-opened 1915, closed 1925, re-opened 1949, part-time with Gaffney's Creek SS1049 (1951-1952), full-time 1952, closed 1969.

Alhambra
Approximate Location: 3km west of Matlock on road to Warburton.
Comments: Gold mining suburb of Matlock. c1864-c1867. Population was over 100.

Ancona (Hayfield)
Approximate Location: 10km NW of Bonnie Doon.
Comments: Rural locality. Named after an Italian town.
Schools: Hayfield SS2643 opened in 1884, part-time with Dry Creek SS1321 for some years prior to 1899, renamed Ancona in 1905, closed 1936.

Barjag
Approximate Location: 45km south of Benalla on Midland Highway.
Comments: Rural locality. Watson and Hunter squatter here in 1840.
Schools: Barjag SS2169 opened 1879, part-time with Lima South SS2658 (1884), Nillahcootie SS1099 (1988), closed 1903, re-opened 1904, closed 1967.

Barwite
Approximate Location: 10km NE of Mansfield.
Comments: Named after the son of the aboriginal tribal leader (Beolite).
Schools: A school operated part-time with Wombat (Tolmie) SS2305 from 1880 until SS2512 opened in 1883, part-time with Gonzaga SS2958 (1889-1893?), and closed in 1944.
Buildings: The Barwite Hall and Free Library no longer survives (details of it are unknown).

Bonnie Doon (Doon)
Approximate Location: North shore of Lake Eildon on Maroondah Highway.
Comments: Surveyed and proclaimed as Doon in 1865, name changed to Bonnie Doon in 1891. In about 1950 most of the town was rebuilt on higher ground because of  the enlargement of Lake Eildon.
Schools: SS1303 Doon began as Rural School 108 in 1872 at Doon/Brankeet. It was replaced by SS2098 Doon in 1878 which was later renamed to Bonnie Doon.
Buildings: A Mechanics' Institute and Library was opened in 1899. This was replaced by a new library in 1931. The original site is now under water.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
Newspapers: Click here.

Boorolite
Approximate Location: 10km SE of Mansfield.
Comments: Farming district. Named after the Hunter and Watson station of 1839.
Schools: SS2157 opened in 1879, closed 1902, re-opened 1909, closed 1949, re-opened 1954 and closed some time between 1970 and 2003.

Brack Bridge
Approximate Location: About 12km south of Mannsfield and 2 km north of Goughs Bay.

Brankeet West
Approximate Location: 15km north of Alexandra, 10km west of Bonnie Doon.
Comments: Brankeet is the aboriginal name of a local swamp.
Schools: SS1638 operated from 1876 to 1951 and used the name Woodfield for very short time.

Bridge Creek
Approximate Location: 10 km north of Mansfield.
Schools: SS3714 opened full-time in 1912, then part-time with Dueran East SS3523 (1912-1913), then full-time until its closure in 1955.

Brooklyn Town
Approximate Location: 4km east of Wood's Point on the junction of the Goulburn River and Standers Creek.
Comments: Gold mining town  and wayside stopping area1865-c1867. Also called Clarke Point.

Burnt Camp
Approximate Location: About 12km NE of Woods Point.

Castle Reef
Approximate Location: Between Gaffney's Creek and A1 Mine Settlement.
Schools: SS1443 opened 1874, was part-time with Gaffney's Creek (1875), Knockwood SS2620 (1884-1885), closed 1885.

Champion
Approximate Location: 10km east of Wood's Point on north side of Standers Creek.
Comments: Gold mining town 1865-1867. Had two stores, two bakers, a butcher and two grog shanties.

Chapel Hill
Approximate Location: Locality a few kilometres SW of Merrijig.

Darlingford
Approximate Location: West of Howqua, now under Lake Eildon.
Comments: From the 1850s Darlingford was a ford (and later a bridge) over the Big River near its junction with the Goulburn River. It commerce included wayside trading and it became the centre of an agricultural area.. The township was surveyed and proclaimed in 1864. With the impending flooding of Lake Eildon in the 1920s, a new settlement called New Darlingford was created about 8km further up the Goulburn River, but this was also eventually flooded. Also called Big River and Big River Junction
Schools: Prior to 1863, a private school was operating. From 1864 to 1867 it operated as Common School 816, then again as a private school. In 1870 it became Rural School 6, and upgraded to SS1229 in 1873. Operated part-time 1884-1886 with Big River, then again on its own from then until 1898 when it co-operated with Big River SS2646 in 1898 and Jerusalem Creek in 1904.
Fry's Bridge SS3759 opened in 1912, closed 1927 due to the building of the Eildon Weir, re-sited to Peachey's Bridge 1928, burnt down 1930, part-time with Howe's Creek SS3483 (dates unknown) and closed 1941.
Cemetery : A cemetery existed on the SW corner of the intersection of the Goulburn and Big rivers. During the 1920s and prior to the flooding due to the Eildon Weir, graves were re-interred to Eildon and Mansfield. For details click here.

Delatite
Approximate Location: 10km SE of Mansfield.
Comments: The township was surveyed and proclaimed in 1880. Named after Goodman and Chenery's station, which in turn  was named after the wife of the aborigine tribal leader Beolite.
Schools: A school existed in 1873 on the Mansfield Settlement side of Devil's River (now the Delatite River) which became Devil's River SS1323 in 1873.
SS2829 appears to have opened in 1886 on a half day basis in conjunction with Ford's Creek and Booroolite, closed 1892, re-opened 1899 part-time with Howquadale SS3186. Still operating 1969.
Delatite Upper SS4569 opened in 1938.

Devil's River
Approximate Location: 10km south of Mansfield.
Comments: Originally a station owned by Watson and John Hunter.
Schools: Opened as a Rural School in 1870, became SS1323 in 1874, operated part-time with Ford's Creek SS2538 (1879), Maintangoon SS2757 (1886), Howqua West SS2874 (date unknown) and also Loyola SS1953 prior to its closure in 1897.

Dry Creek
Approximate Location: 10km north of Bonnie Doon.
Schools: Opened as a Rural School in 1870, became SS1321 in 1874, part-time with Hayfield (Ancona) SS2643 for some time up to 1889, full-time 1889 and closed 1903.

Dueran East
Approximate Location: 10km north of Mansfield.
Schools: SS3523 opened in 1906, part-time with Bridge Creek SS3714 from 1912 until its closure in 1913.

Enoch's Point
Approximate Location: 15km south of Jamieson on the Big River that feeds into the south of Lake Eildon..
Comments: Gold discovered 1857. Town named after Enoch Hall. Surveyed and proclaimed in 1865. Maximum population was greater than 300, but generally abandoned by the 1890s. Had a hotel and Post Office.
Schools: SS180 opened for a short time in 1870, re-opened 1873, part-time with Big River SS2646 from 1884, closed 1896, re-opened 1905 and finally closed 1907.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.

Erin Vale
Approximate Location: 4km from Nillacootie.
Schools: Opened in 1871, became SS1284 in 1873 and closed in 1877.

Ford's Creek
Approximate Location: Near Mansfield.
Schools: SS2538 opened part-time with Devil's Creek SS1323 in 1881 at the Mansfield racecourse, burnt down 1886, re-sited, closed 1895.

Gaffney's Creek
Approximate Location: 20km south of Jamieson.
Comments: Gold discovered by Terrance Thomas Gaffney in 1860.  Was surveyed and proclaimed as Lauraville in 1871 but name changed about 1900. Other settlements in the area were Drummond's Point, Survey Point (later called Paradise Point), Raspberry Point and View Point, but eventually became collectively known as Gaffney's Creek.
Schools: The Lauraville Catholic Common School opened in 1867, became Lauraville SS1049 in 1871, name changed to Gaffney's Creek in 1900, part-time with A1 Mine Settlement SS3462 (1951-?) and closed in 1960.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.
Links: See also Raspberry Creek/Point.

Garibaldi Gully
Approximate Location: Was somewhere near Merton.
Schools: SS1266 operated from 1873 to 1874.

Gonzaga
Approximate Location: Somewhere near Barwite.
Comments: Named after an Italian town
Schools: SS2958 operated from 1889 to 1893, part-time with Barwite SS2512.
Buildings: A Mechanics' Institute hall previously existed and may or may not have survived (details of it are unknown).

Gooleys Creek
Approximate Location: 3km SE of Wood's Point on junction of Goulburn River and Gooley's Creek.
Comments: Gold mining town from the 1860s, now a 'suburb' of Wood's point. Named after William Gooley, one of the areas early prospectors. The Sycamore Hotel operated from early times until 1909 and also a number of grog shanties. Population was always under 300. Also called Graball.

Goughs Bay
Approximate Location: 15km south of Mansfield on the edge of Lake Eildon.
Comments: Named after J Gough who held land which is now under Lake Eildon.

Green Valley
Approximate Location: Locality 10km south of Mansfield on the edge of Lake Eildon.

Growlers Gully
Approximate Location: Old goldfield about 5km south of Merton.

Harpers Creek
Approximate Location: 2km NE of Matlock.
Comments: Gold mining suburb of Matlock. c1864-c1870. Population never reached more than 50.

Highton
Approximate Location: Locality a kilometre or two south of Mansfield.

Howe's Creek
Approximate Location: 19km south of Mansfield near Lake Eildon.
Comments: Named after Hunter and Watson's shepherd who had a hut in the area.
Schools: SS3483 opened part-time with Loyola SS1953 in 1904, full-time (1905-1907), later part-time with Darlingford SS3759 for some time.
Buildings: The Mechanics' Institute and Free Library  was built in 1908 and is currently used for community purposes.

Howqua
Approximate Location: On the SE edge of Lake Eildon about 20km south of Mansfield.
As the Howqua River flows into the the lake here, this part of the lake is called Howqua Inlet.

Howquadale
Approximate Location: Now under Lake Eildon near Howqua.
Schools: SS3186 opened in 1893, part-time with Howqua West SSSS2874 in 1903 and closed in 1916.

Howqua Hills
Approximate Location: Approximately 10km south west of Mount Buller Village, but accessible from a turnoff near Merrijig.
Comments: Goldmining town c1880 to c1900, proclaimed a town in 1888. After the gold ran out it reverted to a farming area. At its peak, it had a hotel, butcher baker post office, several boarding houses and a blacksmith. Sheepyard Flat and Tobacco Flat are nearby areas.

Howqua West
Approximate Location: If, as the name suggests, that it was west of Howqua, then it would now be under Lake Eildon.
Schools: SS2874 opened in 1888, part-time with Devil's River SS1323 and Maintangoon SS2757, closed 1896, re-opened part-time with Loyola SS1953 in 1898, later part-time with Howquadale SS3186, closed 1903.

Jamieson
Approximate Location: 30km south of Mansfield.
Comments: Gold discovered in 1861. Township surveyed and proclaimed in 1862.
Schools: SS788 opened as a Catholic Church school in 1865 and closed late the same year. SS814 was built in 1863 and officially opened in 1865. Still operating.
Jamieson East SS2499 operated from 1883 to 1891.
Jamieson Racecourse SS1925 opened in 1877, and closed when burnt down in 1892.
Buildings: A court house was built in Nash Street in 1864. The last court appears to have sat in 1972 and the court house was officially closed in 1998. It is now the home of the Jamieson & District Historical Society.
A Mechanics' Institute hall previously existed and may or may not have survived (details of it are unknown).
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
Historical Society: Click here.
Museum: Click here.
Newspapers: Click here
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

Kevington
Approximate Location: 10 km south of Jamieson.
Comments: Named after a hamlet in Kent, England. Initially a mining centre. The township was surveyed and proclaimed in 1866 but the proclamation was rescinded in the 1951 review.
Mack's Creek was a settlement about one kilometre from Kevington which no longer exists.
Schools: SS1133 operated from 1871 to 1941 possibly part-time with Ten Mile SS1429 during its last few years.

Knockwood
Approximate Location: 20km SSE of Jamieson.
Schools: SS2620 opened part-time with Castle Reef SS1443 in 1884 and closed 1885.

Lake Eildon
Approximate Location: Large man-made lake on northern side of the Great Dividing Range and just south of Mansfield.
Comments: Weir built creating the lake in the early 1920s. Many smaller settlements now under the lake.

Loyola
Approximate Location: SE of Mansfield.
Comments: Area named after Watson and Hunter's station 1839, named after either a Spanish (or Italian) ducal family. Also called Ten Mile House.
Schools: SS1953 opened in 1878, operated part-time with Devil's River SS1323 (1897), Howqua West SS2874 (1898), Howe's Creek SS3483 (1904). In 1912 repaced by Howes's Creek at a new site.

Macs Cove
Approximate Location: Small town on the SE edge of Lake Eildon about 20km south of Mansfield. Macs Cove is on northern side of Howqua Inlet with Howqua on the southern side of the inlet.

Maindample
Approximate Location: 25km west of Mansfield.
Comments: Squatters Watson and Hunter held a run here prior to 1846. Township surveyed and proclaimed in 1887.
Schools: A Catholic School was operating prior to 1868, became SS994 in 1869 and closed in 1874. SS1514 opened in 1875, part-time with Nillahcootie in the late 1880s, burnt down in 1897, rebuilt 1898.
Buildings: A public hall no longer survives (details of it are unknown).

Maintangoon
Approximate Location: Now under lake Eildon.
Comments: Named after Matson's station taken up in 1838.
Schools: SS2757 opened 1886, operated part-time with Eildon SS1496 and Howqua West SS2874 at different times before closing in 1895, re-opened 1901 and closed 1903.

Mansfield
Approximate Location: 50km south of Benalla.
Comments: Edward Eyre Mansfield lived here in 1841. Township surveyed and proclaimed in 1860.
Schools: The Church of England and Presbyterian Church jointly opened a school in 1858. It became a Common School SS429 in 1863, and closed in 1872 when SS1112 opened in Mansfield. SS1112 became a Higher Elementary School in 1924, and reclassified as a primary school in 1963 when the High School opened. (See also Ford's Creek)
Buildings: A court house was built on the corner of High and Highett Streets in 1879/1880. As well as a Magistrate's Court, the building also housed the mining registrar and the Warden's Court and the Court of Mines also sat here. It was in this court house in 1918 that Robert Gordon Menzies (later to become the longest serving Prime Minister of Australia) made his first appearance as a barrister). The Magistrate's Court was still operating from the building in 2000.
By 1892, a library was already in existence in the council building. However a separate building was erected for this purpose in 1892. In 1985 the building became a preschool annexe and in 1990 became the home of the Mansfield Historical Society.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.
Historical Society: Click here.
Newspapers: Click here.

Matlock
Approximate Location: 40km south of Jamieson.
Comments: Gold discovered 1861. Named after a town in Derbyshire, England. Initially called Emerald Hill, but name changed in 1865 to avoid confusion with another Emerald Hill (now called South Melbourne). Township surveyed in 1864 and proclaimed in 1871. It had a hotel, police station, post office, bank, church and a court. During the 1800s, this was considered the highest inhabited town in Australia. Town virtually abandoned by the 1930s with only a sawmill operating from 1950s to 1970s. 'Suburbs' were Thackeray, Alhambra, Mutton Town and Harpers Creek.
Schools: The 'highest' school in Victoria, although the head teacher was never paid his 1 shilling/day 'mountain allowance'.
A Common School and a Catholic School opened in 1865. In 1871 SS1100 began (as Rural School 58), was unclassified in 1892, part-time with Red Jacket SS1216 in 1893, closed 1895, re-opened 1898 and closed again 1911.
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.

Merrijig
Approximate Location: 15km east of Mansfield.
Comments: Aboriginal word for well done
Schools: Rural School 89 operated part-time with Boorolite SS2157 prior to becoming SS1379 in 1874. Closed in 1908, re-opened 1917, temporarily closed about 1941, still operating.

Merton
Approximate Location: 25km south of Euroa.
Comments: Township surveyed and proclaimed in 1854.
Gold discovered generally north of here in 1869/70.
Schools: SS1027 opened in 1869, became Rural School 48 in 1870, and closed in 1874. SS1532 opened in 1875.
Communications: A Post office opened in in 1858.
Buildings: A Memorial Hall is in existence (details of it are unknown).
Cemetery: For details of the cemetery click here.

Mirimbah
Approximate Location: Approximately 5km east of Mount Buller Alpine Village.
Comments: From the Aboriginal word for possum marimba. Mainly a sawmill town from 1935 to 1946. Established by Paul Christensen and operating as the Delatite Sawmilling Co. The town consisted of the sawmill, a general store and post office, a boarding house and a dozen or so workers cottages. Sawmill Settlement (a few kilometres to the west) was initially the site of the Carter Bros Mill.
Schools: SS4619 operated from 1943 until 1967.

Mount Buller [Alpine Village]
Approximate Location: 35km east of Mansfield.
Schools: SS4959 opened in 1966.

Mountain Bay
Approximate Location: About 20km south of Mansfield on the edge of Lake Eildon. Appears to be somewhere just west and/or north of Macs Cove and Howqua.

Nillahcootie
Approximate Location: 10km NW of Mansfield.
Comments: Name possibly of Indian origin meaning blue house.
Schools: A private school existed in the mid 1860s. SS1099 opened in 1871 and from 1887 was part-time with Maindample and Barjag until its closure in 1903.
See also: Lima South on the Rural City of Benalla webpage.

Ogilvie's Estate
Approximate Location: Was in pre-1994 Mansfield shire.
Schools: SS4393 operated from 1929 until 1938.

Pemburthy
Approximate Location: About 10km NE of Woods Point.

Peters Corner
Approximate Location: About 10km east of Mount Buller Alpine Village.

Piries
Approximate Location: About 12km SSE of Mansfield on the road to Woods Point.
Comments: Named after John Pirie who was involved in the founding of Adelaide.

Raspberry Creek/Point
Approximate Location: Between Gaffney's Creek and A1 Mine settlement.
Comments: Gold discovered in 1861 reputedly by William John Strickland.
Schools: SS879 operated as a Catholic Church school from 1867 to 1871.
(See also Gaffney's Creek).

Royal Standard
Approximate Location: 10km east of Wood's Point on ridge between Standers Creek and Chandler Creek.
Comments: Gold mining town 1865-1867. Had a licensed hotel, 2 stores, 2 butchers, a grog shanty and police.

Standers Creek
Approximate Location: 10km east of Wood's Point on south side of Standers Creek.
Comments: Gold mining town 1865-1867. Had a store, a butcher and two grog shanties.

Tabletop
Approximate Location: Locality about 10km NE of Mansfield (halfway between Bridge Creek and Tolmie).

Tallangallook
Approximate Location: Farming area about 8km west of Barjag and about 15km north of Bonnie Doon.
Comments: Hells Hole Diggings was situated on the nearby Hell Hole Creek and was a minor goldfield in the late 1850s.

Ten Mile
Approximate Location: 10km SE of Jamieson.
Comments: Initially a wayside stop operating from the 1860s with gold being found later on the nearby Sailor Bill's Creek. Town basically destroyed by the 1939 bushfires and abandoned.
Schools: Sailor Bill's Creek SS1429 opened in 1873, operated part-time with Gaffney's Creek for a while, closed temporarily and re-opened in 1899. Name changed to Ten Mile in 1911. Date of closure of school unknown but assumed to be after 1970.

Thackeray
Approximate Location: Less than a kilometre west of Matlock.
Comments: A gold mining town from 1863 initially called Toorak, but when a town was surveyed in 1864 the name was changed to Thackeray to avoid confusion with the Melbourne suburb of Toorak. Town consisted mainly of miner's cottages with a population of les than 200. Demise of the town was about 1873.

Tolmie
Approximate Location: 20km NE of Mansfield.
Comments:  Originally called Wombat. In 1889 it was renamed to Tolmie in honour of Ewen Tolmie who held the 40,000 acre Dueran Pastoral Run and the adjoining 16,000 acre Hollands Creek run to the north from 1860 to 1879/1880. Wombat/Tolmie area was part of these runs.
Schools: Wombat SS2305 opened in 1880, part-time with Barwite (1880-1883), renamed Tolmie in 1889, part-time with Toombullup East SS3354 about 1917 and with Mahaikah SS3370 (1936-1937). It closed in 1953.
Buildings:  The Mechanics' Institute hall was built in 1920, additions were made in 1951 and it was extensively renovated in 2008.

Woodfield
Approximate Location: 15km north of Alexandra, 10km west of Bonnie Doon.
Schools: See Brankeet West for school details.

Wood's Point
Approximate Location: 35km south of Jamieson.
Comments: Originally known as Cherry's Point after Thomas Cherry who discovered gold there in 1861. Became Woods Junction in 1862 after the first store owner. Township was surveyed and proclaimed as Wood's Point in 1864.
Schools: SS758 operated from 1864 to 1865.
SS789 opened in 1865 was burnt out in 1939 and closed sometime between 1969 and 2004.
SS930 operated as a non-vested Catholic School from 1868 to 1876.
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.
Newspapers: Click here (don't forget to look under Jamieson as well).
Books: See the Books page for details of books about this town.

Wyeton
Approximate Location: 5km east of Wood's Point on north side of Standers Creek near junction with Wyes Creek and Abbott Creek.
Comments: Gold mining town c1886-1890s. Had a restaurant/shanty and a store. Peak population was over 50. Area was also called Montgomery.

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