| Pyalong Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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 Pyalong Hotel | |||||||||||||||
  Pyalong | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°07′0″S 144°51′0″E / 37.11667°S 144.85000°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 772 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3521 | ||||||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Shire of Mitchell | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Hume | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Euroa | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Nicholls | ||||||||||||||
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Pyalong /ˈpaɪ.əlɒŋ/ is a town in central Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the Northern Highway, in the Shire of Mitchell local government area, 90 kilometres (56 mi) from the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2021 census, Pyalong had a population of 772.[1]
The traditional owners of Pyalong are the Taungurung people, a part of the Kulin nation that inhabited a large portion of central Victoria including Port Phillip Bay and its surrounds.
The first Europeans to settle in the area were Captain George Brunswick Smyth and Lieutenant Alfred Miller Mundy who were operating the Pyalong station by August 1838, and William Hamilton who occupied the adjacent Glenaroua run at the same time.[2] They were followed by Alexander Mollison who initially took up the Coliban station in December 1838 then added the Pyalong station lease in 1839.[3][4] The town itself was surveyed and proclaimed in 1854,[5] and was sufficiently populated for the Post Office to open on 1 November 1858.[6]
Pyalong was connected by railway in 1890. The line was closed in 1968.[7]
Golfers play at the course of the Pyalong Golf Club on the Northern Highway.[8]
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Pyalong (Suburb and Locality)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
- ^ Williams, Martin. Charles Bonney and the fertile Kilmore Plains, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 90, No. 1, June 2019, p. 112.
- ^ "THE MOLLISONS AND THEIR LIBRARY". Trinity College Library. Trinity College (University of Melbourne). Retrieved 4 June 2007.
- ^ Daley, Charles, Early Squatting Days, From the papers of the late A. F. Mollison, The Victorian Historical Magazine, Issue 33. Vol. IX. July, 1922. No. 1. p10
- ^ Pidgeon, Elizabeth. "The Ryan Family: Pioneers of Pyalong". Retrieved 4 June 2007.
- ^ Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Retrieved 11 April 2008.
- ^ The Heathcote Junction to Bendigo and Associated Railways Turton, Keith Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, April, 1970 pp. 69–88
- ^ Golf Select. "Pyalong". Retrieved 11 May 2009.
