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across the Yea River from the town, in the Ghin Ghin area, the Ti Tree Creek, and the 'Higinbotham' area on the
Murrindindi Creek. None except the Providence and Ti Tree Creek yielded profitable gold on any commercial scale for more than about 5 years, the Providence was effectively closed by 1889 and the Welcome mine on Ti Tree Creek by the mid 1890s.
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is Yea High School. Managed also from the school is the Access Yea
Community Education Program (AYCE), a statewide educational program that is designed to help school leavers and other students who do not fit into the regular school system. The Yea Primary School and the catholic Sacred Heart Parish
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consists of commercial, retail and public buildings along the
Goulburn and Melba Highways as they run through the town, with residential areas largely to the south of the commercial centre, though newer residential estates have been developed to the west. The residential areas consist almost entirely
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Yea has been a town servicing the agricultural and resources industries of the surrounding area since its inception. These included pastoral agriculture for the entire period, gold mining before 1900, and timber cutting and dairying from then until the late 20th century. The Yea Dairy
Factory opened
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have influenced the Yea area quite frequently, fire having been recorded by the Hume and Hovell expedition, and floods affecting the roadways on a regular basis. In 1884 the area was affected by both flood and fire, on 1 January 1900 the
Commonwealth Day celebrations were abandoned in order to fight
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An early record of a lawn tennis match between teams from Yea and
Alexandra - one which 'created a large amount of interest in consequence of its being the first occasion that the local club has pitted its members against those belonging to a distant club' - occurred on the Queen's Birthday holiday
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A major threat to the township was the
Trawool Water Scheme (announced for implementation in 1908), which would have almost certainly meant the drowning of the town. Property values became depressed, and two deputations to the state minister did not appear to change his mind. Survey work commenced,
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The town has had a fairly stable population (around 1,100) since 1900, though it now has a relatively old population. The town economy is based around servicing the farming sector, and tourism, with good road links but little public transport. The town has education supplied by three schools (state
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Yea expanded under the influx of hopeful prospectors, both as a natural overnight stopping place on the route from
Melbourne to other goldfields, but especially when gold was discovered in the local area in the late 1850s. The gold-mining localities near Yea included the 'Providence' diggings just
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in 1873. Although subject to (sometimes severe) financial constraints at various times, and the substantial costs involved in maintaining the local road infrastructure in the face of fires and floods, the shire managed to develop some substantial public facilities, and to successfully lobby for
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Although private religious worship occurred beforehand, the first public services were probably held in the 1850s. In 1857 the Muddy Creek
Mission was formed, and it arranged for the services of an Anglican lay preacher, though the building they provided "should be used for the propagation of
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Christianity without respect to the minor differences existing among the Protestant Evangelical Churches." A church (intended by its builder to be a Baptist church) was taken over by the Presbyterian Church in the mid 1860s, with the present Presbyterian church opened in 1923.
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coach service to Melbourne or Mansfield twice a day, and a coach service from Alexandra to Seymour via Yea once a day (on weekdays).. The Seymour train line 30 mins away by car is easily accessed for commuting to and from Melbourne with a frequent time table of train services.
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in 1891, and closed in 1993, but other industrial or manufacturing activities have never reached significant scale. The Yea Saleyards has become a significant livestock selling centre for Central Victoria, with sales occurring at least every month.
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The former Purcells General Store "is one of the oldest buildings still intact in Yea and was owned and operated by several generations of the Purcell family until 1986." The family operated a store in the town from the 1860s until 1986.
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in 1879.) They reported the area as very suitable for grazing, though in the hills good soil was only to be found in the hollows, but they found the forest almost impenetrable as they left the area south-west towards King Parrot Creek.
1900:"is the most intact example of a small group of standard Gothic-styled Railway Station buildings." Built in 1889, it is now managed by a Committee of Management and used for community events, including the monthly Yea Country Market.
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in 1824, and within 15 years most of the land in the area had been taken up by graziers. Surveyed in 1855, the township grew as a service centre for grazing, gold-mining and timber-getting in the area.
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Other buildings on the register include the former Yea & Mansfield Dairy Co Ltd building (1891) in Rattray St, the Yea Shire Hall (1877), the RSL Hall, and the Yea Memorial Hospital (1945).
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saw production greatly reduce as demand fell. In these times of highest production, there was in excess of 2,500,000 board feet (5,900 m) of timber sent out each year over the tramlines to
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The Yea Dairy Company was formed in 1891. Creameries around the district substantially increased the income of local farmers, and considerable amounts of butter were shipped to Melbourne.
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achieved substantial improvements in transport infrastructure in the area, including the bridges at Molesworth (1874) and King Parrot Creek (1872), and the successful lobbying for the
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The earliest available record of a cricket match in Yea is for January 1869, against a Murrundindi side, though formal creation of a club seems not to have occurred until 1872.
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in June 1891, though a petition (submitted in the same year) to formally reserve land for tennis stated that it 'has been used for years by the Tennis Club'.
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No intact examples of native vegetation survive in the area immediately around Yea. That vegetation consisted of grassy woodlands dominated by river red gum (
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The Yea Wetlands, an area of 32 hectares (79 acres) immediately to the east of the town, and situated between two branches of the
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primary and high schools, and a Catholic primary). It has three churches, and active sporting clubs.
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a fire that surrounded the town, and in 1969 it had to be 'defended on all sides' from fire.
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Golfers play at the course of the Yea Golf Club on Racecourse Road.
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of low-density, single-storey detached houses on their own blocks.
2744:. Yea, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 4 June 1891. p. 3
2716:. Vic.: National Library of Australia. 6 September 1872. p. 2
2263:. Yea, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 4 June 1891. p. 3
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Yea is located on the inside (west and south) of a bend in the
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in 1994. The town of Yea is in the Cheviot Ward of the shire.
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local government area. In an area originally inhabited by the
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Primary School provide education for primary-level students.
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and the now defunct Central Goulburn Football League.
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Revegetation Guide for the Goulburn Broken Catchment
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2025:(2005). Melbourne, The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd.
2002:. Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology
1980:. Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology
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2793:"Roycroft, James William (Bill) (1915–2011)"
2769:Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920)
2741:Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920)
2260:Yea Chronicle (Yea, Vic. : 1891 - 1920)
2621:"Welcome to Yea High School's AYCE Program"
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2663:"Sacred Heart Parish Primary School"
2045:Clark, Ian D.; Heydon, Toby (2002).
2022:Macquarie Dictionary, Fourth Edition
172:177.3 km (68.5 sq mi)
1704:Yea, population age profile in 2021
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2435:Australian Bureau of Statistics.
1916:Australian National Heritage List
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1978:"Alexandra Monthly Temperatures"
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1941:Australian Bureau of Statistics
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2255:"DAIRY FACTORY AND CREAMERIES"
2193:"Yea, Lacy Walter Giles"
1945:"Yea (Suburbs and Localities)"
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2458:"2021 Census QuickStats Yea"
2190:Lloyd, Ernest Marsh (1900).
1914:in Limestone Road is on the
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18:Town in Victoria, Australia
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2928:"Yea Flora Fossil Site"
2362:"Yea Wetlands Pamphlet"
2129:Blanks, Harvey (1973).
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1579:Goulburn Valley Highway
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2151:Earp, Clement (2013).
2000:"Yea Monthly Rainfall"
1949:2021 Census QuickStats
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2642:"Yea Primary School"
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