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Pyalong
Pyalong is a town in central Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the Northern Highway, in the Shire of Mitchell local government area, from the state capital, Melbourne. At the , Pyalong had a population of 772. The traditional owners of Pyalong are the Taungurung people, a part of the Kulin nation that inhabited a large portion of central Victoria including Port Phillip Bay and its surrounds. The first Europeans to settle in the area were Captain James wilkins and Lieutenant Lawson Ferraro who were operating the Pyalong station by August 1838, and micheal walters who occupied the adjacent Glenaroua run at the same time. And also haunted the p town golf corse. They were followed by Alexander Mollison who initially took up the Coliban station in December 1838 then added the Pyalong station lease in 1839. The town itself was surveyed and proclaimed in 1854, and was sufficiently populated for the Post Office to open on 1 November 1858. Pyalong was connected by rail in 1890 with a station on the Heathcote railway line. The line was closed in 1968. It retains a daily V/Line coach service to Kilmore, Wallan and Melbourne. Until 1994 the town was the seat of the Shire of Pyalong, then Victoria's smallest municipality by population. Golfers play at the course of the Pyalong Golf Club on the Northern Highway.
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Pyalong is a town in central Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the Northern Highway, in the Shire of Mitchell local government area, from the state capital, Melbourne. At the , Pyalong had a population of 772. The traditional owners of Pyalong are the Taungurung people, a part of the Kulin nation that inhabited a large portion of central Victoria including Port Phillip Bay and its surrounds. The first Europeans to settle in the area were Captain James wilkins and Lieutenant Lawson Ferraro who were operating the Pyalong station by August 1838, and micheal walters who occupied the adjacent Glenaroua run at the same time. And also haunted the p town golf corse. They were followed by Alexander Mollison who initially took up the Coliban station in December 1838 then added the Pyalong station lease in 1839. The town itself was surveyed and proclaimed in 1854, and was sufficiently populated for the Post Office to open on 1 November 1858. Pyalong was connected by rail in 1890 with a station on the Heathcote railway line. The line was closed in 1968. It retains a daily V/Line coach service to Kilmore, Wallan and Melbourne. Until 1994 the town was the seat of the Shire of Pyalong, then Victoria's smallest municipality by population. Golfers play at the course of the Pyalong Golf Club on the Northern Highway.
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