Carrajung, Victoria

Carrajung Victoria
Carrajung
Postcode:	3844
Elevation:	700 m (2,297 ft)
Location:	195 km (121 mi) E of Melbourne 32 km (20 mi) S of Traralgon 35 km (22 mi) NW of Woodside
LGA:	Shire of Wellington
County:	Buln Buln
State electorate:	Gippsland South
Federal Division:	Gippsland
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall 35 °C 95 °F -2 °C 28 °F 760 mm 29.9 in

Carrajung is a town in eastern Victoria, Australia. Carrajung is situated between Yarram and Traralgon, about 5 kilometres from the Hyland Highway at a height of approximately 520 meters above sea level. Carrajung is situated close to the eastern end of the Grand Ridge Road.

It has a population of around 100 people. Carrajung has a football oval, one church,a community hall and a primary school that is now closed.

Carrajung Post Office opened on 1 November 1887 and closed in 1974. Carrajung Lower, nearby, had a Post Office open from 1902 until 1911, and from 1922 until 1969 although known as Bruthen Creek until 1926.

The area once boasted a football team and regular community events, families in the area were mainly dairy farmers, several lived there for successive generations, their family names now are the basis for street names. Among the earliest were William and Elsie Hall, Bill was a bullock driver and worked at Won Wron, cut his own timber to build their home about 1mile up the grand ridge road. McDermotts lived opposite the school and where a leading family in the area. Bittners came to the area after World War II. Stichlings ran the post office/ store. The oval had a trimmed Cyprus hedge that commemorated the fallen of World War I, the gates still are in place with names of sons lost to war. The hotel was one of the few between Traralgon and Yarram and lost its licence in the late 50's. The region is now almost devoted to tree farming with only a few serious milk farmers left to carry the effort of their forebares. The seasons are too short and the blackberrys too prolific. Post World War I war settlers were burnt out in the 1939 fires and many walked off their land, the "heartbreak hills" have now been turned back to forest.