Pyalong Explained

Type:town
Pyalong
State:vic
Use Lga Map:yes
Coordinates:-37.1167°N 144.85°W
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pop:772
Postcode:3521
Dist1:90
Dir1:N
Location1:Melbourne
Dist2:73
Dir2:SE
Location2:Bendigo
Dist3:24
Dir3:N
Location3:Kilmore
Lga:Shire of Mitchell
Region:Hume
Stategov:Euroa
Fedgov:Nicholls
Near-N:Tooborac
Near-Ne:Glenaroua
Near-E:Glenaroua
Near-Se:Glenaroua
Near-S:Willowmavin
Near-Sw:Lancefield
Near-W:Benloch
Near-Nw:Tooborac

Pyalong is a town in central Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the Northern Highway, in the Shire of Mitchell local government area, 90km (60miles) from the state capital, Melbourne. At the, Pyalong had a population of 772.

The traditional owners of Pyalong are the Taungurung people, a part of the Kulin nation that inhabited a large portion of central Victoria including Port Phillip Bay and its surrounds.

The first Europeans to settle in the area were Captain George Brunswick Smyth and Lieutenant Alfred Miller Mundy who were operating the Pyalong station by August 1838, and William Hamilton who occupied the adjacent Glenaroua run at the same time.[1] They were followed by Alexander Mollison who initially took up the Coliban station in December 1838 then added the Pyalong station lease in 1839.[2] [3] The town itself was surveyed and proclaimed in 1854,[4] and was sufficiently populated for the Post Office to open on 1 November 1858.[5]

Pyalong was connected by railway in 1890. The line was closed in 1968.[6]

Golfers play at the course of the Pyalong Golf Club on the Northern Highway.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Williams, Martin. Charles Bonney and the fertile Kilmore Plains, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 90, No. 1, June 2019, p. 112.
  2. Web site: THE MOLLISONS AND THEIR LIBRARY . Trinity College Library . . 2007-06-04.
  3. Daley, Charles, Early Squatting Days, From the papers of the late A. F. Mollison, The Victorian Historical Magazine, Issue 33. Vol. IX. July, 1922. No. 1. p10
  4. Web site: Pidgeon . Elizabeth . The Ryan Family: Pioneers of Pyalong . 2007-06-04.
  5. Web site: Premier Postal History . Post Office List . 2008-04-11 .
  6. The Heathcote Junction to Bendigo and Associated Railways Turton, Keith Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, April, 1970 pp. 69–88
  7. Web site: Golf Select . Pyalong . 2009-05-11 .