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55: 598: 283:, fires destroyed one-third of Dunkeld's houses and only the Royal Mail Hotel remains from the five original establishments. Today Dunkeld contains two upmarket restaurants and ample accommodation. There is also a general store, bakery with accommodation, five cafes, post office, art gallery, bookshop, gift shop, petrol station (under reconstruction 2019), pharmacy, primary school, childcare centre, local museum, bookshop, (sandstone) stonemason and a hardware store, tourist information centre and 2 churches. Residents access most other services they need in 358: 39: 520: 62: 263:
At a strategic point south of the Grampians for road traffic and surrounded by fine wool producing country, Dunkeld thrived in the mid-19th century. The Robertson's Woolpack Inn was the first building to be erected in 1845, followed by five other hotels - the Shamrock and the Western, the Royal Mail,
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lived in this region to the south and east of the Grampians for over 4,000 years prior to the arrival of the Europeans. The first pastoralists took up properties in the late 1830s and there was a decade of sometimes violent clashes with the Djab wurrung. A small township developed which was initially
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but the railway line has been closed for some years. Wool and hay production continues on the surrounding farms. The timber industry has now ceased, but there is at least one local vineyard. There is a caravan park with campsites and a variety of other tourist accommodation, and tourism is now the
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known as Mount Sturgeon, after the European name for the mount behind the town. A post office of that name opened on 1 July 1852 (Dunkeld from 1 January 1854); but, as the early settlers were predominantly Scottish, it was renamed Dunkeld after a
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the Collins Railway Hotel and the Family Inn. Road traffic declined with the opening of the railway (1877 to Hamilton and Ararat, with another short-lived line going south to Penshurst).
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all made paintings of the district, where Mt Murdadjoog (Mt Abrupt) and Mt Wurgarri (Mt Sturgeon) provide a backdrop.
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which was the principal locality of the Caledonian picts in Roman times.
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main employer. A 40-ha property, "Heathlands", was owned by naturalist
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Royal Mail Hotel with the Grampians in the background
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team, called Glenthompson-Dunkeld, competing in the
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It is approx 283 km west of Melbourne on the 465: 1009: 557: 442:"Pizzey, Graham, (Graham Martin) (1930-2001)" 564: 550: 430:– via National Library of Australia. 356: 37: 493: 459: 315:Mininera & District Football League 295:A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia 1010: 545: 331: 329: 487: 248:, Dunkeld had a population of 678. 13: 326: 14: 1039: 532:Official Tourism Victoria website 513: 596: 518: 363: 60: 53: 996:Territory divided with another 337:Australian Bureau of Statistics 154:283 km (176 mi) W of 61: 434: 408: 386: 172:33 km (21 mi) NE of 166:76 km (47 mi) SW of 160:147 km (91 mi) W of 1: 320: 232:, at the southern end of the 178:95 km (59 mi) W of 7: 1028:Western District (Victoria) 574:Shire of Southern Grampians 238:Shire of Southern Grampians 194:Shire of Southern Grampians 18:Town in Victoria, Australia 10: 1044: 370:Phoenix Auctions History, 1018:Towns in Victoria (state) 989: 676: 605: 594: 580: 466:Country Racing Victoria, 311:Australian rules football 211: 199: 187: 148: 140: 130: 118: 79: 48: 36: 23: 537:Royal Mail Hotel website 416:"Devastation at Dunkeld" 341:"Dunkeld (State Suburb)" 144:252 m (827 ft) 234:Grampians National Park 345:2016 Census QuickStats 103:37.65000°S 142.35000°E 527:at Wikimedia Commons 108:-37.65000; 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Victoria

Dunkeld is located in Shire of Southern Grampians
Coordinates
37°39′0″S 142°21′0″E / 37.65000°S 142.35000°E / -37.65000; 142.35000
2016 census
Postcode(s)
Melbourne
Ballarat
Ararat
Hamilton
Skipton
LGA(s)
Shire of Southern Grampians
State electorate(s)
Lowan
Federal division(s)
Wannon
Victoria, Australia
Grampians National Park
Shire of Southern Grampians
Glenelg Highway
2016 census
Djab wurrung people
Scottish town
Louis Buvelot
Eugene von Guerard
Nicholas Chevalier
January 1944
Hamilton

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