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Shire of Yackandandah
Local government area
Location in Victoria
Location in Victoria
Map
The Shire of Yackandandah as at its dissolution in 1994
CountryAustralia
StateVictoria
RegionHume
Established1862
Council seatYackandandah
Area
 • Total
1,148.75 km2 (443.53 sq mi)
Population
 • Total4,660 (1992)[1]
 • Density4.057/km2 (10.507/sq mi)
CountyBogong
LGAs around Shire of Yackandandah
Chiltern Wodonga Tallangatta
Beechworth Shire of Yackandandah Tallangatta
Myrtleford Bright Tallangatta

The Shire of Yackandandah was a local government area about 290 kilometres (180 mi) northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 1,148.75 square kilometres (443.5 sq mi), and existed from 1862 until 1994.

Victorian Government Gazette, 27 June 1862

History

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Road District

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Yackandandah residents began the process towards the establishment of a road district on 8 August 1862.[2] The rate roll was confirmed on 5 May 1863.[3]

At the meeting on 3 March 1863, the Board members present were W. Welshman, (Chair), Power, Robinson, Osborne, McIlree, and D Mongan.[4] The meeting agreed to develop plans to improve 'the three worst gullies on the Gap road, between Beechworth' and Yackandandah. The Board was collecting tolls on the punt across the Little (Kiewa) River.[4]

At the April meeting the Board received a memorial from the township inhabitants, 'stating that they would consent to pay double the assessment for the present year, if improvements were made' to prevent the stores in town from being flooded.[5]

On 27 March 1863 Yackandandah Board (along with several other Boards around the State) received a grant of £1,000 from the Government.[6]

The terms of the members of the first Board ended on 10 September 1863.[7]

The next election for the Board was held at the Clarence Hotel on 18 March 1864.[8] Among the members of the new Board were Pooley, Power, Sturt, and Rudd (Publican of the Waterloo Hotel)[9][10] Power, Rudd and Pooley went on to be Shire Councillors.[11]

Shire established

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The Road District became a Shire on 30 December 1864.[12] It was originally created with a larger area, but it lost land to the Shire of Chiltern in two transfers; on 14 May 1913 and 30 May 1917.[13]

On 18 November 1994, the Shire of Yackandandah was abolished, and along with parts of the Shires of Beechworth, Chiltern and Rutherglen, was merged into the newly created Shire of Indigo. The Baranduda district was transferred to the Rural City of Wodonga, while the Dederang district was transferred into the newly created Alpine Shire.[14]

Wards

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The Shire of Yackandandah was divided into three ridings:

  • Yackandandah Riding (4 councillors)
  • Kiewa Riding (3 councillors)
  • Dederang Riding (2 councillors)

Towns and localities

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* Council seat.

Population

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Year Population
19543,131
19583,170*
19613,093
19663,062
19712,971
19763,151
19813,476
19863,989
19914,662

* Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book.

Looking north upstream of the Kiewa River, Mongans Bridge

(John) Mongans Bridge & Mongans Bluff

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In the 1800s, many people in the area had the surname Mongan.

In 1869, the son of Mark Mongan, a butcher in Yackandandah, was nearly drowned in a dangerous waterhole.[15]

Daniel Mongan (born in Liverpool in 1826 and died Osbornes Flat 1911) was a member of the Yackandandah District Road Board (see above) and a Councillor of the Shire of Yackandandah.[16] On 31 October 1876, Daniel Mongan was elected President of the Shire.[17] In giving evidence to the Railway Commission in 1891 he was described as a farmer of Osbornes Flat.[18]

John Mongan held land further up the valley in the Tawonga area. John was a farmer and a gold miner. He had been in California in 1849.[19] For a time he was manager of the Spring Creek Gold Mining Company.[20] (Gold had been discovered in and a rush began on Spring Creek (Beechworth) in 1852.[21]) In 1883, John Mongan of Tawanga is thanked by the Yackandandah athenaeum[22] for his gift of two lyrebird tails.[23] In 1884, his lease of 120 hectares is approved.[24] In that year he also won a tender for £76 for 'clearing the Tawanga Road'.[25]

John Mongan, of Tawanga, appears again in the record advertising for staff to prospect at the head of the Kiewa Valley.[26] In 1891 he is reported as having opened a 40cm wide reef that was 'showing gold freely'.[27]

The Shire received correspondence in January 1889 from John Eyre of Dederang reminding the Shire of their promise to 'erect a bridge at Mr J Mongan's at Tawanga'.[28] In May of that year Cr Daniel Mongan moved that 'moved that tenders be called for the erection of a bridge over the Kiewa river at Tawonga.'[29] That the Councillor did not recuse himself and actually moved the motion suggests that the two Mongans were not related. By the end of the month the Engineer had reported back to the Shire that he had prepared plans and specifications for 'Tawanga bridge at John Mongan's'.[30]

By April of 1890 the Bridge had been completed as the Engineer reported on the cost of building a road 'to the bridge at Mr John Mongans'.[31]

As well as giving his name to the bridge across the Kiewa, the river cliff near the intersection of Bay Creek Road and Redbank-Mongan’s Road, has since at least 1884, been known as Mongans Bluff.[32]

References

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  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria Office (1994). Victorian Year Book. pp. 49–52. ISSN 0067-1223.
  2. ↑ "LOCAL INTELLIGENCE". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 1463. Victoria, Australia. 21 August 1862. p. 2. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "LOCAL INTELLIGENCE". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 1569. Victoria, Australia. 28 April 1863. p. 2. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. 1 2 "YACKANDANDAH ROAD BOARD". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 1547. Victoria, Australia. 7 March 1863. p. 4. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "YACKANDANDAH ROAD BOARD". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 1561. Victoria, Australia. 9 April 1863. p. 4. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "GRANTS TO ROAD BOARDS". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 5, 279. Victoria, Australia. 8 May 1863. p. 7. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "YACKANDANDAH". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 1612. Victoria, Australia. 6 August 1863. p. 3. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "GOVERNMENT GAZETTE". The Age. No. 2, 916. Victoria, Australia. 2 March 1864. p. 5. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ "ORIGINAL POETRY". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 1729. Victoria, Australia. 5 May 1864. p. 3. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ "YACKANDANDAH ROAD BOARD". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 1786. Victoria, Australia. 15 September 1864. p. 3. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ↑ "YACKANDANDAH SHIRE COUNCIL". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 1906. Victoria, Australia. 20 June 1865. p. 3. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. ↑ "THE NEWS OF THE DAY". The Age. No. 3, 175. Victoria, Australia. 31 December 1864. p. 4. Retrieved 8 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ↑ Victorian Municipal Directory. Brunswick: Arnall & Jackson. 1992. pp. 903–904. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.
  14. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (1 August 1995). Victorian local government amalgamations 1994-1995: Changes to the Australian Standard Geographical Classification (PDF). Commonwealth of Australia. p. 4,8,12. ISBN 0-642-23117-6. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
  15. ↑ "NEW SOUTH WALES". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 2568. Victoria, Australia. 7 September 1869. p. 2. Retrieved 21 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  16. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60528/records/1491751
  17. ↑ "YACKANDANDAH SHIRE COUNCIL". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 3932. Victoria, Australia. 2 September 1876. p. 4. Retrieved 21 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  18. ↑ "AT YACKANDANDAH". The Yackandandah Times. Vol. I, no. 30. Victoria, Australia. 7 March 1891. p. 2. Retrieved 21 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  19. ↑ "BANQUET AT YACKANDANDAH". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 7176. Victoria, Australia. 12 December 1896. p. 6. Retrieved 20 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  20. ↑ "SPRING CREEK GOLD-MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).—BALANCE SHEET, 30th June, 1883". New South Wales Government Gazette. No. 299. New South Wales, Australia. 13 July 1883. p. 3799. Retrieved 20 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  21. ↑ "HISTORY OF BEECHWORTH". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 1323. Victoria, Australia. 28 September 1861. p. 2. Retrieved 21 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  22. ↑ Merriam Webster: a building or room in which books, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use Or: a literary or scientific association
  23. ↑ "THE BENAMBRA ELECTION". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 12, 466. Victoria, Australia. 9 June 1886. p. 6. Retrieved 20 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  24. ↑ {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201596956 |title=MINING NOTES. |newspaper=Ovens and Murray Advertiser |issue=5259 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=10 July 1884 |accessdate=20 June 2026 |page=2 |via=National Library of Austra
  25. ↑ "YACKANDANDAH SHIRE COUNCIL". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 5287. Victoria, Australia. 13 September 1884. p. 1. Retrieved 20 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  26. ↑ "YACKANDANDAH SHIRE COUNCIL". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 5784. Victoria, Australia. 10 December 1887. p. 1. Retrieved 20 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  27. ↑ "Mining Nuggets". The Yackandandah Times. Vol. I, no. 21. Victoria, Australia. 5 January 1891. p. 2. Retrieved 20 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  28. ↑ "YACKANDANDAH SHIRE COUNCIL". Wodonga and Towong Sentinel. No. 177. Victoria, Australia. 11 January 1889. p. 3. Retrieved 20 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  29. ↑ "THE YACKANDANDAH SHIRE COUNCIL". Wodonga and Towong Sentinel. No. 193. Victoria, Australia. 3 May 1889. p. 3. Retrieved 20 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  30. ↑ "YACKANDANDAH SHIRE COUNCIL". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 6007. Victoria, Australia. 25 May 1889. p. 9. Retrieved 20 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  31. ↑ "YACKANDANDAH SHIRE COUNCIL". Upper Murray and Mitta Herald. Vol. V, no. 245. Victoria, Australia. 24 April 1890. p. 3. Retrieved 20 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
  32. ↑ "YACKANDANDAH". Ovens and Murray Advertiser. No. 5316. Victoria, Australia. 22 November 1884. p. 1. Retrieved 20 June 2026 – via National Library of Australia.
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