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Yackandandah is a town in northeast
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. It is near the regional cities of
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and
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, and is close to the tourist town of
Beechworth Beechworth is a town located in the north-east of Victoria, Australia, famous for its major growth during the gold rush days of the mid-1850s. At the , Beechworth had a population of 3,290. Beechworth's many historical buildings are well pr ...
. At the , Yackandandah had a population of 2,008.


History

The indigenous people of the area prior to white colonisation were the
Dhudhuroa people The Dhudhuroa people (or Duduroa) are an Indigenous Australian people of North-eastern Victoria, in the state of Victoria, Australia. About 2,000 descendants exist in Australia in the early 21st century. Name The endonym Dhudhuroa has been analys ...
, in whose language the
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''Yackandandah'' is said to have meant “one boulder on top of another at the junction of two creeks”, namely the Yackandandah and Commissioner creeks' intersection.'A Brief History of Yackandandah,'
Indigo Shire Council
The area was first opened to white settlement when Irish-born James Osborne took up land at Osborne's Flat in 1837. On the discovery of gold deposits on its territory in 1852, it became a
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centre known for its alluvial wet mining techniques. Yackandandah Post Office opened on 13 June 1856. Another office nearby, Yackandandah Junction, opened in 1872 but closed in 1885. In his local book, Antony O'Brien (p. 22) quotes an old poem published in the ''
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'', 11 June 1857, titled, "The Lass of Yackandandah".


Today

The area is now predominantly a
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and
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region and has numerous bed and breakfast lodges which allow its many visitors to enjoy the peace and tranquillity of the district's forest and mountains. It is close to achieving self-sufficiency in energy supply, foreseen to be reached by 2024, based on solar power. The town is affectionately known as "Yack". The commercial centre of the town, known as the Yackandandah Conservation Area, is recorded on the
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.


Rail

The Yackandandah railway line once linked Yackandandah to Beechworth and opened in 1891. The route to Woorragee and from there to Yackandandah was steep; trains descending the last gradient into Yackandandah would halt (near the now Yackandandah turnoff, from the Beechworth-Wodonga Road) so the guard could apply hand-brakes to carriages and wagons. The last train on the Yackandandah-Beechworth line was in July 1954. Though the line was torn up, many sections of the original right of way are visible from the roadway between Beechworth and Yackandandah. In May 2017 the Victoria State Government budgeted for an extension of the Murray to Mountains Rail Trail side branch from Beechworth to Yackandandah. The side branch currently extends from Beechworth to Everton Station, where it connects to the main trail.


Culture

Used for the filming of the 2003 film '' Strange Bedfellows'' (starring
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and
Paul Hogan Paul Hogan (born 8 October 1939) is an Australian actor and comedian. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance as ...
). Yackandandah is home to the annual Yackandandah Folk Festival attracting local, Australian and international artists since 1998. Like the larger neighbouring town of Beechworth, Yackandandah promotes itself as a tourist destination on the basis of its gold mining history and features a period streetscape as well as an increasing number of antique shops. Two historic buildings, the 146-year-old museum (formerly the Bank of Victoria) and an adjacent timber store ("Rainbow Crystal"), were destroyed by a fire in the early morning of 21 December 2006. A real estate agency was also severely damaged. The museum was rebuilt, reopening in November 2008.


Sports and recreation

Golfers play at the course of the Yackandandah Golf Club on Racecourse Road. The Yackandandah Cricket Club play in both junior and senior grades in the Cricket Albury Wodonga competition.


Yackandandah Football / Netball Club

The town has had an active
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team since its first club meeting in 1881. The club has competed in the
Tallangatta & District Football League The Tallangatta and District Football League (TDFL) is an Australian rules football competition in north-eastern Victoria (state), Victoria and the southern border area of the Riverina region of New South Wales. The clubs compete across four c ...
, since 1957, winning senior football premierships in 1964 and 2000. *Football Timeline ** 1897 - Weiss Trophy ** 1904 - 1905: Kiewa Valley Football Association ** 1906 - Murphy's Albion Hotel Football Competition ** 1907 - 1911: ? ** 1912 - Yackandandah & District Football Association ** 1913 - 1915: Club active, but did no play in an official competition. ** 1916 - 1923: Club in recess ** 1924 - 1927: Kiewa & District Football Association ** 1928 - 1932: Yackandandah & District Football Association ** 1933 - 1935:
Chiltern & District Football Association The Chiltern & District Football Association was first established in 1912 from six Australian Rules Football clubs—Barnawartha, Chiltern, Chiltern Valley, Christmastown, Southern and Wodonga—in North Eastern Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Aust ...
** 1936 - 1939: Dederang & District Football Association ** 1940 -
Yackandandah & District Football League The Yackandandah & District Football Association was a minor rural Australian Rules Football competition in North Eastern Victoria. The competition ran from 1928 to 1932, 1940, then from 1946 to 1953, when it folded in early 1954. History The ...
** 1941 - 1944: Club in recess.
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**1945 - Club reformed and played several non competition matches. ** 1946 - 1953:
Yackandandah & District Football League The Yackandandah & District Football Association was a minor rural Australian Rules Football competition in North Eastern Victoria. The competition ran from 1928 to 1932, 1940, then from 1946 to 1953, when it folded in early 1954. History The ...
** 1954 -
Chiltern & District Football Association The Chiltern & District Football Association was first established in 1912 from six Australian Rules Football clubs—Barnawartha, Chiltern, Chiltern Valley, Christmastown, Southern and Wodonga—in North Eastern Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Aust ...
** 1955 - ? ** 1956 -
Chiltern & District Football Association The Chiltern & District Football Association was first established in 1912 from six Australian Rules Football clubs—Barnawartha, Chiltern, Chiltern Valley, Christmastown, Southern and Wodonga—in North Eastern Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Aust ...
** 1957 - 2024:
Tallangatta & District Football League The Tallangatta and District Football League (TDFL) is an Australian rules football competition in north-eastern Victoria (state), Victoria and the southern border area of the Riverina region of New South Wales. The clubs compete across four c ...
;Football Premierships *Kiewa & District Football Association **1904 - Yackandandah: 6.7 - 43 d Gundowring: 3.14 - 32 * Murphy's Albion Hotel Football Association **1906 - Yackandandah: 7.6 - 48 d Sandy Creek: 4.10 - 34 *
Yackandandah & District Football League The Yackandandah & District Football Association was a minor rural Australian Rules Football competition in North Eastern Victoria. The competition ran from 1928 to 1932, 1940, then from 1946 to 1953, when it folded in early 1954. History The ...
(1928 - 1932, 1940, 1946 - 1953) **1928 - Yackandandah: 7.16 - 58 defeated Kergunyah: 8.3 - 51 **1940 - Yackandandah: 13.12 - 90 defeated Mudgegonga: 5.9 - 39 *
Tallangatta & District Football League The Tallangatta and District Football League (TDFL) is an Australian rules football competition in north-eastern Victoria (state), Victoria and the southern border area of the Riverina region of New South Wales. The clubs compete across four c ...
**Seniors *** 1964 - Yackandandah defeated Mitta United *** 2000 - Yackandandah defeated Barnawartha *** 2024 - Yackandandah: 10.11 - 71 defeated Chiltern: 7.5 - 47 ;League Best & Fairest Awards Senior Football *
Tallangatta & District Football League The Tallangatta and District Football League (TDFL) is an Australian rules football competition in north-eastern Victoria (state), Victoria and the southern border area of the Riverina region of New South Wales. The clubs compete across four c ...
**1964 - Hugh Earnshaw: Tied with the winner on 26 votes, but finished as runner up on the old countback system, but has never received a retrospective medal from the T&DFNL. **1972 - John Lease **1991 - Jay McNeil **1997 & 1998 - Travis Tyler **2001 & 2004 - Simom Corr **2002 - Des Anthony **2006 - Aaron Purcell **2017 - Lee Dale **2024 - Zac Leitch


Notable people

*
Sir Isaac Isaacs Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, (6 August 1855 – 11 February 1948) was an Australian lawyer, politician, and judge who served as the ninth Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1931 to 1936. He had previously served on the High Court of Au ...
, Governor General of Australia, who though born in Melbourne spent most of his early years in Yackandandah. Michael Kirbybr>'Sir Isaac Isaacs — A Sesquicentenary Reflection,'
Melbourne University Law Review 2006 pp.880-904 p.882
* Peter Denahy, Australian entertainer.


Further reading

*O'Brien, Antony. ''Shenanigans on the Ovens goldfields: The 1859 election'', Artillery Publishing, Hartwell, 2005. *Larsen, Wal. ''The Mayday Hills Railway'', Wal Larsen, Bright, 1976.


References


External links


The Official Yackandandah Tourism (Indigo Shire) Web SiteArts YackandandahYackandandah Folk Festival
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yackandandah.com1946 - Yackandandah FC team photo
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