Jindivick is a town in
Victoria
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, Australia, located on Jacksons Track, in the
Shire of Baw Baw
The Shire of Baw Baw is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, in the eastern part of the state. It covers an area of and in June 2018 had a population of 52,015.
It includes the towns of Drouin, Longwarry, Neerim South, Trafalgar, W ...
. The town was first established in 1858 by Joseph Jackson. The word ‘Jindivick’ is an
Aboriginal word that is translated to, ‘burst asunder’.
History
In 1858, Jindivick was established by Joseph Henry Jackson who blazed a track that he named ‘Jackson’s Track’. This track was initially intended to help pastoralists and miners travel from one area to another and to reach
Mount Baw Baw
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. Due to this demand by travellers, in 1877, a general store opened for business in the southern part of the district and a school was later started. A mechanic’s institute hall was constructed in 1886.
The first Drouin Post Office opened on 5 April 1876, was renamed Jindivick in 1878 and Drouin West within months. Jindivick Post Office opened again in 1880 and was renamed Tarago in 1888. The third Jindivick Post Office opened later in 1888 and closed in 1994.
In 1910, a
Presbyterian
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and
Anglican
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Church was founded to serve the growing population in the first half of the 20th century. By 1954, the town of Jindivick (excluding the surrounding region) had reached a permanent population of 390. Further timber and dairy industries were invested in during the middle part of the 20th century which founded the backbone of the region’s income. Currently, there is a community hall, church, school, tennis court, general store and a reserve with a memorial to the World Wars and the founder of the town, Joseph Jackson.
Notable people
*
Beau Miles
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Career
Miles' father is a painter. Miles started as an undergraduate student in 1999 at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He started to lecture at Mon ...
- Australian youtuber and part of the agricultural community has a large property lot outside the town.
He is also known from the "
Bass
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by Kayak" television series in which he and a small expedition set out to cross the sea from Australian mainland to
Tasmania
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in
kayak
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s over a two-week period. He has done many trips similar, including
Africa
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, and is known for his filming and documentaries.
Further reading
* Burst asunder: Jindivick, the first hundred years, 1977
* Carolyn Landon and Daryl Tonkin, Jackson's Track: memoir of a dreamtime place, Melbourne, 1999
* Carolyn Landon, Jackson's Track revisited, Clayton, 2006
* G. Butler, Buln Buln: a history of the Buln Buln Shire, 1979
References
Towns in Victoria (Australia)
Shire of Baw Baw
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