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Yackandandah

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55: 1312: 39: 1124: 409:). Yackandandah is home to the annual Yackandandah Folk Festival attracting local, Australian and international artists since 1998. Like the larger neighbouring town of Beechworth, Yackandandah promotes itself as a tourist destination on the basis of its gold mining history and features a period streetscape as well as an increasing number of antique shops. 62: 383:
carriages and wagons. The last train on the Yackandandah-Beechworth line was in July 1954. Though the line was torn up, many sections of the original right of way are visible from the roadway between Beechworth and Yackandandah. In May 2017 the Victoria State Government budgeted for an extension of the
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once linked Yackandandah to Beechworth and opened in 1891. The route to Woorragee and from there to Yackandandah was steep; trains descending the last gradient into Yackandandah would halt (near the now Yackandandah turnoff, from the Beechworth-Wodonga Road) so the guard could apply hand-brakes to
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Two historic buildings, the 146-year-old museum (formerly the Bank of Victoria) and an adjacent timber store ("Rainbow Crystal"), were destroyed by a fire in the early morning of 21 December 2006. A real estate agency was also severely damaged. The museum was rebuilt, reopening in November 2008.
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region and has numerous bed and breakfast lodges which allow its many visitors to enjoy the peace and tranquillity of the district's forest and mountains. It is close to achieving self-sufficiency in energy supply, foreseen to be reached by 2024, based on solar power.
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centre known for its alluvial wet mining techniques. Yackandandah Post Office opened on 13 June 1856. Another office nearby, Yackandandah Junction, opened in 1872 but closed in 1885.
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The area was first opened to white settlement when James Osborne took up land at Osborne's Flat in 1844. On the discovery of gold deposits on its territory in 1852, it became a
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side branch from Beechworth to Yackandandah. The side branch currently extends from Beechworth to Everton Station, where it connects to the main trail.
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is said to have meant “one boulder on top of another at the junction of two creeks”, namely the Yackandandah and Commissioner creeks' intersection.
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The Yackandandah Cricket Club play in both junior and senior grades in the Cricket Albury Wodonga competition.
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The commercial centre of the town, known as the Yackandandah Conservation Area, is recorded on the
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In his local book, Antony O'Brien (p. 22) quotes an old poem published in the
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Golfers play at the course of the Yackandandah Golf Club on Racecourse Road.
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The indigenous people of the area prior to white colonisation were the
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1913 - 1915: Club active, but did no play in an official competition.
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1945 - Club reformed and played several non competition matches.
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Eardley, Gifford. — "The Ovens Valley Goldfields Railways". —
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High Street, recorded on the Register of the National Estate
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The Official Yackandandah Tourism (Indigo Shire) Web Site
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1936 - 1939: Dederang & District Football Association
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Shenanigans on the Ovens goldfields: The 1859 election
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1906 - Yackandandah: 7.6 - 48 d Sandy Creek: 4.10 - 34
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1924 - 1927: Kiewa & District Football Association
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1904 - Yackandandah: 6.7 - 43 d Gundowring: 3.14 - 32
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Victoria

Yackandandah is located in Shire of Indigo
Coordinates
36°18′47″S 146°50′21″E / 36.31306°S 146.83917°E / -36.31306; 146.83917
2021 census
Postcode(s)
Melbourne
Wodonga
Beechworth
LGA(s)
Shire of Indigo
State electorate(s)
Benambra
Federal division(s)
Indi
/ˈjækənˌdændə/
Victoria, Australia
Wodonga
Albury
Beechworth
2021 census
Dhudhuroa people
whose language
toponym
gold mining
Melbourne Punch
dairy farming
forestry
Register of the National Estate

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