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52: 532: 327: 246:. The Post Office opened on 1 February 1869 as Upper Heyfield and was renamed Cowwarr in 1870. Cowwarr was a wayside station on the former Traralgon-Maffra-Stratford railway, which opened in 1883. Daily passenger trains from Maffra ran through to Traralgon station (connecting to Melbourne and beyond) until 1977, and the last freight train passed through the town in 1987. The former railway has been converted to the Gippsland Plains Rail trail. 1294: 380: 59: 39: 265:
first established in 1880 as a wooden building the current concrete Art Deco building was constructed in 1930 as was the Cowwarr Public Hall opposite. The town is supported by district farming, including dairy farming, irrigated from the
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a Netball team a primary school which burnt down in late January 2020 and a picturesque Catholic Church.
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Established in the 1860s (when the usual spelling was "Cowwar"), the town serviced the area around
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Historic buildings remain in the town today. A Heritage Listed Arts & Craft
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Victoria

Cowwarr is located in Shire of Wellington
Coordinates
38°01′S 146°41′E / 38.017°S 146.683°E / -38.017; 146.683
2016 census
Postcode(s)
Melbourne
Traralgon
Toongabbie
Heyfield
LGA(s)
Shire of Wellington
State electorate(s)
Gippsland East
Federal division(s)
Gippsland
Victoria
Australia
Traralgon
Melbourne
Shire of Wellington
2016 census
Walhalla
Victorian gold rush
butter
Cowwarr Art Space
contemporary art
The Cricket Club Hotel
Rainbow Creek

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