George Thomas McDonald was from Dumfries in Scotland, arriving in Victoria in 1853. He was employed in the Lands and Survey Office for over 20 years. In 1860 he started surveying a track, which would extend for 70 miles, roughly following the Strezlecki Ranges, from Tobin Yallock on the Lang Lang river right through to …
Continue reading The Tracks, The Surveyors and The Challenges
One of the founding families of the district, the Holmes family, named their homestead after the steamship Arawata which brought them to Melbourne from New Zealand in the late 1880's. The Arawata steamship was built in Glasgow in June 1875. Lawrence Holmes, who is Mr Don Peter's grandfather (Fairbank Rd, Arawata) , was born in …
Welcome to the first post of our new blog for the Arawata Community Hall! We will be updating the blog with 12 chapters on the history of the Arawata Community Hall. Please follow us as we journey through the rich and vibrant history of our beloved community space. We hope you will come visit again …
Arawata Community Hall Association 
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