Moe
Mormontown
A forgotten village just to the north west Walhalla.
Steenhuis, Luke, Ghost Towns of the Mountain Goldfields, Melbourne, 1999, pp.45,56.
Mowee
An Aboriginal word for a swamp, this township is now spelled Moe in Gippsland..
NRMA, Holiday Guide 13vols, Sydney, 1997-1999, vol.10, p.337.
Arawata
Now called Korumburra this name being said to mean a blowfly, about 30
km north east of Wonthaggi.
Aplin, Graeme, Foster, S.G.,Mckernan,Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.391.
Asher's Ten Mile Dam
This name was used until 1874; in 1876 it became known as Rupanyup; about
36 km east of Horsham.
Reader's Digest, Illustrated Guide to Australian Places, Sydney, 1993, p.367.
Fultons Creek
Once a thriving gold mining centre near Walhalla, now a ghost town.
Paull, Raymond, Old Walhalla :portrait of a gold town, Melbourne, 1964, p.105.
Furneaux Land
So named by Bass in 1798 believing it had been sighted by Tobias Furneaux
in 1773. Governor Hunter, on the recommendation of Flinders and Bass, renamed
it Wilson's Promontory after Thomas Wilson, a Lodon friend of Flinders.
Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia : in ten volumes., Sydney, 1963, vol.9, p.324.
Gooding
A forgotten railway station about 6 km north of Moe, named after a local
settler.
O'Callaghan,Thomas, Names of Victorian Railway Stations with their origins and meanings, together
with similar information relative to the capital cities of Adelaide, Sydney,
Brisbane, and a few of the border stations of New South Wales and South
Australia, Melbourne, 1918, p.50.
Gould
A forgotten railway station about 25 km north of Moe. Named after "Roast
Beef" Gould, the landlord of the Cecil Inn on the coach road between
Moe and Moondarra.
O'Callaghan,Thomas, Names of Victorian Railway Stations with their origins and meanings, together
with similar information relative to the capital cities of Adelaide, Sydney,
Brisbane, and a few of the border stations of New South Wales and South
Australia, Melbourne, 1918, p.50.
Happy Go Lucky
Also known as Pearson, this forgotten mining town was just south east of
Walhalla.
Steenhuis, Luke, Ghost Towns of the Mountain Goldfields, Melbourne, 1999, pp.40-41, 45.
Harris
Named after a Walhalla storekeeper, now known as Erica, about 125km east
of Melbourne.
Paull, Raymond, Old Walhalla :portrait of a gold town, Melbourne, 1964, p.128.
Hazelwood
A forgotten railway station about 6 km south west of Morwell.
O'Callaghan,Thomas, Names of Victorian Railway Stations with their origins and meanings, together
with similar information relative to the capital cities of Adelaide, Sydney,
Brisbane, and a few of the border stations of New South Wales and South
Australia, Melbourne, 1918, p.52..
Maiden Town
A forgotten village just to the east of Walhalla.
Steenhuis, Luke, Ghost Towns of the Mountain Goldfields, Melbourne, 1999, pp. 45,-53.
Maryvale
The name changed to Morwell in 1888 aelepedly after an Aboriginal word
for a woolly possum..
Aplin, Graeme, Foster, S.G.,Mckernan,Michaely, Australians Events and Places,
Sydney, 1987, p.392.
Mount Useful
Once a thriving gold mining centre near Walhalla, now a ghost town.
Paull, Raymond, Old Walhalla :portrait of a gold town, Melbourne, 1964, p.105.
Mount Warrackjep
Now called Ben Nevis about 65km north west of Ballarat.
Whitworth, Robt. P., Baillier's Victorian gazetteer and road guide : containing the most recent and accurate information as to every place in the Colony, Melbourne, 1870, p.39.
New Leith
It became Port Albert in 1841 to honour Queen Victoria's consort, in Gippsland.
Aplin, Graeme, Foster, S.G.,Mckernan, Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.392.
Pearson
Also known as Happy Go Lucky, this forgotten mining town was just south east of Walhalla.
Steenhuis, Luke, Ghost Towns of the Mountain Goldfields, Melbourne, 1999, pp.40-1, 45.
Platina
A forgotten railway station between Erica and Walhalla, in western Gippsland.
So named because platinum was discovered in a local copper mine.
O'Callaghan,Thomas, Names of Victorian Railway Stations with their origins and meanings, together
with similar information relative to the capital cities of Adelaide, Sydney,
Brisbane, and a few of the border stations of New South Wales and South
Australia, Melbourne, 1918, p.78.
The Hill
Now called Yallourn North in Gippsland. It was also known as the BCM (Brown
Coal Mine) township.
McGoldrick, Prue, Yallourn was - , Morwell, 1984, pp.7,115.
Thomson
A forgotten railway station between Erica and Walhalla in western Gippsland.
Named after Edward Deas Thomson.
O'Callaghan,Thomas, Names of Victorian Railway Stations with their origins and meanings, together
with similar information relative to the capital cities of Adelaide, Sydney,
Brisbane, and a few of the border stations of New South Wales and South
Australia, Melbourne, 1918, p.90.
View Point
One of four townships which made up the Fiery Creek Diggings in the 1850s. The place is now known as Beaufort, about 40 km north of Ballarat.
Aplin, Graeme, Foster, S.G.,Mckernan,Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.383.
Wallington
So named after a governor's A.D.C., earlier called Narracan, now known as Thorpdale which means a village in a valley, about 20km south west of Morwell.
Martin, A. E., Place names in Victoria, and Tasmania, Sydney, 1944, p.80.
Waterloo
Now called Yarragon about 110km south east of Melbourne.
Levey, George Collins, Hutchinson's Australasion Encyclopaedia, London, 1892, p.438.
Watson
A forgotten railway station between Moondara and Erica about 20 km north
of Moe. Named after a local settler.
O'Callaghan,Thomas, Names of Victorian Railway Stations with their origins and meanings, together
with similar information relative to the capital cities of Adelaide, Sydney,
Brisbane, and a few of the border stations of New South Wales and South
Australia, Melbourne, 1918, p.95.
Westbury
Also known as Mouay, it is now called Moe-Newborough, in western Gippsland.
Aplin, Graeme, Foster, S.G.,Mckernan, Michaely, Australians Events and Places, Sydney, 1987, p.392.
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