The Little Peninsula Tunnel is a small river diversion tunnel on the upper Yarra River near McMahons Creek , around 80 km East of Melbourne , Victoria , Australia . The tunnel was dug in the 1860s by alluvial gold miners to provide access to the bed of the Yarra River.
14-736: The tunnel is a short walk from the Little Peninsula Tunnel Picnic Ground, about 14 km east of Warburton on the Woods Point Road. The site is listed in the Victorian Heritage Inventory . 37°42′44″S 145°48′29″E / 37.71222°S 145.80806°E / -37.71222; 145.80806 This article about a location in Victoria, Australia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Warburton, Victoria Warburton
28-470: A drop-in centre and emergency relief provision in the shopping strip and manages the Millwarra Community Building located at the school. The Community Building is a 300-seat auditorium and half court basketball stadium. The former railway line is now a walking and cycling track . A free community lunch (Good Tucker Day) is held in the reserve opposite the saw mill each Tuesday and there
42-502: Is a large water catchment area called Upper Yarra Dam, which is designed to supply Melbourne with water sourced from the Thomson catchment area. Robert Hoddle first surveyed this area in 1845 after persistent overwhelming floods impeded the development of the city of Melbourne. Warburton was named after the middle name of unpopular goldfields Police Magistrate for Castlemaine, Charles Warburton Carr by District Surveyor Clement Hodgkinson during
56-486: Is a residents group (Millgrove Residents Action Group MRAG) as well as an environment group, MERG. Millgrove has an active and dedicated fire brigade (CFA). The fire station is opposite the saw mill and is also a purpose-built community fire refuge. Millgrove hosts a moving ANZAC Dawn service that attracts in excess of 500 people with breakfast provided by the Wesburn-Millgrove Fire Brigade. Located beneath
70-633: Is a town in Victoria , Australia , 76 kilometres (47 miles) east of Melbourne's central business district , located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area . Warburton recorded a population of 2,020 at the 2021 census . The name "Warburton" has been shared between two townships over the years. The mining town of "Yankee Jim's Creek" was located on the gold-bearing slopes of Mount Little Joe. Hostile terrain, fire, drought, flood, steep slopes, unsustainable roads, crime and easier pickings for miners further upstream put an end to "Old Warburton". Land
84-583: The Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area . Millgrove recorded a population of 1,666 at the 2021 census . Millgrove is located on either side of the Warburton Highway , between Wesburn and Warburton . The Post Office opened on 7 November 1906, four years after the opening of the town's railway station on 13 November 1901 on the Warburton line . Millgrove remained a timber-milling and agricultural town, with occasional tourism and fishing, until
98-828: The 1860s. It received an official title in 1884. Hodgkinson became Australia's Father of Forestry. Carr was confronted with a population explosion upon opening of the Yarra goldfields in 1859 amid economic depression and was honoured for dutiful administration of the law despite public protests against him. Carr was also Secretary to the Government Inquiry into the Eureka Stockade 3 December 1854 at Ballarat. Charles Warburton Carr never lived in Warburton, he lived in Avoca. Hodgkinson's good friend, Gold Commissioner for Bendigo and Magistrate for
112-500: The 1960s and 1970s. Despite the closure of the railway in 1965, cars placed Millgrove within acceptable commuting distances of larger towns. Millgrove has a public reserve, a small shopping area (Mt Little Joe Nursery, a small general store, bakery, newsagent, fish and chips, church drop in centre), saw mill, a primary school, Millwarra PS, which shares campuses with Warburton East and a pre-school. There are two churches, Millgrove Baptist and River Valley Church of Christ. River Valley has
126-520: The Yarra Valley, Joseph Panton, named Mt Donna Buang above Warburton in 1865. The sketch map of the upper Yarra water and new bridle track to Woods Point, from Lillydale to Traveller's rest on great mountain road, lithographed at Office of Lands and Survey, 11 Sept. 1865, is available online at the State Library of Victoria. In a letter to The Argus 1 July 1911, Panton stated, "having ascertained from
140-599: The chief and head of the aboriginal tribe of the Yering valley that the mountain was known as 'Donna Buang' I at once entered that name. My map was published by the Crown Lands department on the original scale of two miles to the inch." Panton was Colonel Anderson's nephew; both good friends with Melbourne Botanic Gardens creator Baron Von Mueller and Hodgkinson. The last major town before Warburton, Lilydale, has similar polar histories, an evidence base that shows that Hodgkinson named
154-535: The forested mountains of Donna Buang , Ben Cairn and Mount Little Joe, near the Yarra River , Millgrove is a very scenic location. Often neglected by tourists (in favour of the larger, more affluent and tourist-oriented town of Warburton), it offers cycling, canoeing and bushwalking opportunities. It is also the location of Melbourne High School 's school camps. Together with Warburton, Millgrove has an Australian Rules football team (Warburton Millgrove) competing in
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#1732852457494168-475: The town after Lilly de Castella , daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Anderson who served as one of the first nominated members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in the 1850s, and another history, proposes it was named by public servant clerk John Hardy who heard convicts singing when building a road. The town attracted the wealth of Federation tourism at the turn of the 20th century. It
182-632: Was a honeymoon town. Golfers play at the course of the Warburton Golf Club on Dammans Road. Together with its neighbouring township Millgrove , Warburton has an Australian Rules football team (Warburton Millgrove) competing in the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League . Millgrove, Victoria Millgrove is a small town in Victoria , Australia , located 63 kilometres (39 mi) east of Melbourne's central business district , located within
196-500: Was surveyed and sold in the valley below in 1884. The Post Office opened around 1884. Two earlier offices named Warburton were renamed as Launching Place and Hoddle's Creek . Warburton was connected to Lilydale by a Victorian Railways branch line , which was closed in 1965. The railway path is now used for the Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail , a rail trail used by pedestrians, cyclists, and horse-riders. East of Warburton
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