Yarragon, Victoria
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 Part of Yarragon's main streetscape looking south |
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 Yarragon
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| Population: | 1,131 (2006)[1] |
| Postcode: | 3823 |
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| LGA: | Shire of Baw Baw |
| County: | Buln Buln |
| State electorate: | Narracan |
| Federal Division: | McMillan |
Yarragon is a small town in the West Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The town lies on the Princes Highway and the main Gippsland Railway line approximately halfway between the major towns of Warragul and Moe. Hills of the Strzelecki Ranges rise over 400 metres immediately to the south of the town, while the Moe River and the lowlands of the former (now drained) Moe Swamp lie to the north. At the 2006 census, Yarragon had a population of 1131.
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[edit] History
The town was a centre for dairy farms in the vicinity (a former dairy factory lies to the north of the railway line), as well as logging activities in the heavily forested hills to the south. The Post Office opened around October 1878 as Waterloo, Gippsland and was renamed Yarragon in 1883.[2]
[edit] Today
Significant expansion of facilities and businesses along Yarragon's main Princes Highway streetscape since the 1990s aimed at capitalising on the tourist potential of passing traffic has resulted in the town being informally dubbed 'Yarragon Village'.
The town has its own railway station on the Bairnsdale railway line. The station is unstaffed and its buildings will be 100 years old in April 2012. the two platform station used to also be home to rail yards and storage for track gangs but these have now been removed and the sheds now rent to the private market and suggestions for a park and ride carpark.
Yarragon has an Australian rules football team, known as the Panthers, competing in the Mid Gippsland Football League. Yarragon is also home to the Yarragon Netball Club.[citation needed]
[edit] Media
Warragul Radio stations Star FM and 3GG service this region.
[edit] References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Yarragon (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=SSC27087&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved 2007-10-01.
- ^ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country=, retrieved 2008-04-11
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Coordinates: 38°12′S 146°04′E / 38.2°S 146.067°E
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