Patchewollock is a town in north-west

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. At the

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, Patchewollock had a population of 133. The name Patchewollock originated from two Aboriginal words: ''putje'', plenty, and ''wallah'',

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. The town was first established after the

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, when

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blocks were appearing in the area. A post office (originally a receiving office) opened on 27 July 1920. Previous localities of Baring with a post office open from 1926 to 1948, and Dering with a post office open from 1923 to 1949, lie within that part of the Patchewollock locality in the

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. , the township maintained a

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and a post office.

History

Patchewollock is a rural township located within the traditional lands of the

Wergaia The Wergaia or Werrigia people are an Aboriginal Australian group in the Mallee and Wimmera regions of north-Western Victoria, made up of a number of clans. The people were also known as the Maligundidj (in the Wotjobaluk language) which means ...

tribes, whose Aboriginal expression literally means the "place of the plenty porcupine grass". By the end of

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, the town was came into its foundation as a

. The town's most notable feature is a giant mural silo portrait, which depicts the life of grazier and grain farmer, Nick "Noodle" Hulland, painted in 2016 by street artist

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. In 2021, Patchewollock had 80 dwellings and a population of 149 people.

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* Towns in Victoria (Australia) Mallee (Victoria) Australian soldier settlements 1920 establishments in Australia {{Mallee-geo-stub