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The history behind park names

People asking for our traditional place names to be changed to Aboriginal place names will be comfortable with the names of the three big national parks at the pointy end of Gippsland. There are three National Parks in East Gippsland with Aboriginal...

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Snapshot of the past - Russell and Son Pty Ltd

A photograph of Russell and Son Pty Ltd garage in Main St, Drouin in the late 1940s. William Durie Russell started on the site as a blacksmith, coach builder and wheelwright in 1890, eventually transforming it to a car dealership and garage. Just...

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Snapshot of the past

A photograph of Drouin nurse Kate Ethel Hearn standing outside her home “Thorney” at 144 Princes Way in the early 1900s. Kate opened “Thorney” - located opposite the primary school site - as a private hospital. Kate was born in St Arnaud in 1878 to...

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Snapshot of the past

Jim Fitzpatrick’s 1944 series of photos of Drouin includes two of women from the Women’s Land Army working at the Drouin Flax Mill. In 1942 Australia’s farmers were struggling. The countryside emptied as young men enlisted to fight in the war and...

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