| Sugarloaf Creek Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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 Sugarloaf Creek Ebden Station | |||||||||||||||
  Sugarloaf Creek | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°05′04″S 145°02′01″E / 37.08444°S 145.03361°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 244 (2016 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3658 | ||||||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Shire of Mitchell | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Euroa | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Nicholls | ||||||||||||||
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Sugarloaf Creek is a locality in central Victoria, Australia. It is located on the Sugarloaf Creek Road in the Shire of Mitchell local government area, 99 kilometres (62 mi) from the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2016 Australian Census Sugarloaf Creek had a population of 257.[2] The Sugarloaf Creek itself is a tributary of the Goulburn River in Australia.
The traditional owners of Sugarloaf Creek 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.[3]
Charles Hotson Ebden and Charles Bonney drove 10,000 sheep from Mungabareena station on the Murray on 1 March 1837 and reached Sugarloaf Creek station on about 14 March 1837. They set up their first sheep station adjacent to the intersection of Seymour Pyalong Road with Tallarook Pyalong Road, 37°05’04" S; 145°02’41" E.[4]
Sugarloaf Creek has the distinction of being the site of the first European settlement in inland Victoria, a sheep station, and subsequently the generator of the second and third ever European settlements in inland Victoria at Carlsruhe and Kilmore.[5]
William Hamilton took up the Sugarloaf Creek station after Ebden[6] and remained there for the rest of his life.[7]
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Sugarloaf Creek (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
- ^ "REMPLAN Online".
- ^ Clark, Ian D. Aboriginal languages and clans: an historical atlas of western and central Victoria, 1800-1900, Dept. of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Melbourne, 1990, p363.
- ^ Williams, Martin, Charles Bonney and the fertile Kilmore Plains, Victorian Historical Journal, Volume 90, No. 1, June 2019, p. 107.
- ^ ibid, p. 108, 109.
- ^ Bride, T. F., John Hepburn, Letters from Victorian Pioneers to his Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe, Esq., Public Library of Victoria, 1895, p.53.
- ^ The Argus, 24 June 1872, p. 4
