Whroo is a locality in the

Shire of Strathbogie The Shire of Strathbogie is a local government area in the Hume region of Victoria, Australia, located in the north-east part of the state. It covers an area of and in June 2018 had a population of 10,645. It includes the towns of Avenel, Euro ...

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, Australia,.. The locality includes the Whroo Historical Area state reserve.

History

The first inhabitants of the area were the Ngooraialum people. The first European explorer to enter the

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was Thomas Mitchell. The first Europeans to visit the area were the drovers Joseph Hawdon and Charles Bonney. Squatters started settling the area in 1840. Two sailors – John Thomas Lewis and James Meek Nickinson discovered a gold nugget in the grass at Whroo in 1854, leading to the development of the town of Whroo. The

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then operated on and off and officially closed in the 1960s.Tara Moss
The Ghost Town of Whroo
October 29, 2012 . Thought to be derived from an Aboriginal word meaning lips,Whroo
at Victorian Places the first

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opened in 1857 and by 1900 had a Mechanics' Institute and library with 950 volumes opened in 1859 and closed in 1955,

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es, three

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s, a cordial factory and three ore crushing mills.

References

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