Thursday,
26 December 2024
Once I was a post office

IN the shallow valley enclosing Black Dog Creek, south of an impressive box–ironbark forest lay the sleepy township of Chiltern Valley.

Chiltern Valley itself is no longer a town, but is still a locality in the area.

During those heady gold rush days at the site of the Doma Mungi gold mine, a post office was established on August 1, 1894 under the charge of a Mr Nicholas Chenhall.

The post office w...

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