Healesville
New Chum
Now called Healesville, about 50 km north east of Melbourne.
Steenhuis, Luke, Ghost Towns of the Mountain Goldfields, Melbourne, 1999, pp.57, 59.
Bald Hills
This small rural community is now known
as Seaton, about 105km south east of Healesville.
Steenhuis, Luke,
Ghost Towns of the Mountain Goldfields, Melbourne, 1999, p.63
Barney River
Named by Strzelecki after George
Barney, now the Macalister River in central
Gippsland
Mitchell, Thomas, Three expeditions into the
interior of eastern Australia : with descriptions of the recently explored
region of Australia Felix and of the present colony of New South
Wales,London : T. & W. Boone, 1839,vol.2, p.282; Foster,
p.296
BCM(Brown Cool Mine)township
Also known as The
Hill, it is now called Yallourn North in
Gippsland.
McGoldrick, Prue, Yallourn was - ,
Morwell, 1984, pp.7, 115
Bowna
A
township submerged by the Eildon dam in central Victoria.
Rea, Beresford, Up and Down the Sydney Road The Romance of the
Hume Highway, Melbourne, 1958, p.128..
Corhanwarrbul Range
An early name for the Dandenongs, about 40km east of Melbourne.
Coulson, Helen, Story of the Dandenongs 1838-1958, Melbourne, 1959, p.9.
Cumberland
Now called Cambarville, named after two pioneer families, Cameron and Barton,
about 35 km north east of Healesville.
Steenhuis, Luke, Ghost Towns of the Mountain Goldfields, Melbourne, 1999, p.25
Evelyn
A forgotten railway station about 6 km east of Lilydale. Named after an
English M.P.
O'Callaghan,Thomas, Names of Victorian Railway Stations with their origins and meanings,…, Melbourne, 1918, p.45.
Janevale
Now called Laanecoorie, about 40 km south west of Bendigo.
Arnold, Edna & Ken, Tarnagulla & District: the way it was, Golden Square, Vic. : Crown Castleton, 1992, p.10.
Kingstown
Renamed Panton Hill in 1862 to honour Joseph Panton, a Goldfields Commissioner.
It is about 12 km north of Warrandyte.
Reader's Digest, Illustrated Guide to Australian Places, Sydney, 1993, p.279.
Lauravill
Now known as Gaffney's Creek, about 60 km north east of Healesville.
Steenhuis, Luke, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, 1999, p.36-7.
Mount Acland
So named after Colonel Acland now called Mount Donna Buang, in the Snowy Mountains.
Martin, A. E., Place names in Victoria, and Tasmania, Sydney, 1944, p.31.
Paradise Point
Now known as Gaffney's Creek, about 60 km north east of Healesville.
Steenhuis, Luke, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, 1999, pp.36-7.
Raspberry Point
Now known as Gaffney's Creek, about 60 km north east of Healesville.
Steenhuis, Luke, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, 1999, p.36-7.
Watts River
Now the village of Fernshaw, about 10 km north east of Healesville.
Steenhuis, Luke, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, 1999, pp.32-3.
Wood's Junction
This gold mining town is now called Wood's Point, about 65 km east of Healesville.
Steenhuis, Luke, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, 1999, p.83.
Yankee Jim's
Now called Old Warburton, just south west of Warburton.
Steenhuis, Luke, The Modern Encyclopaedia of Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne, 1999, pp.47, 58.
Yarra Flats
Now called Yarra Glen, about 40 km north east of Melbourne.
Sutherland, Alexander, Victoria and its metropolis: past and present, vols.1, 2A and 2B, Melbourne, 1888, vol.2, p.405.
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