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Ballarat was first incorporated as a road district on 7 October 1856, and became a shire on 24 November 1863. [ 2 ] Although much of the detail of the Ballarat Shire Council is obscure, Donald Gunn was a Councillor between August 1865 - June 1867, and again between August 1870 - August 1876.
The Shire of Bungaree was a local government area northeast of the regional city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 228 square kilometres (88.0 sq mi) and existed from 1863 until 1994.
On 2 April 1930, the combined entity absorbed part of the Shire of Bungaree. [ 2 ] On 6 May 1994, the City of Ballaarat was abolished, and along with the Borough of Sebastopol , the Shire of Ballarat and parts of the Shires of Bungaree, Buninyong , Grenville and Ripon , was merged into the newly created City of Ballarat .
Buninyong / ˈ b ʌ n ɪ n j ɒ ŋ / is a town 11 km from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. [2] The town is on the Midland Highway, south of Ballarat on the road to Geelong.. Buninyong was proclaimed a town on 27 June 1851 on the same day as Winchelsea, Portarlington, Longwood, Avenel, Cavendish, Euroa and Gisborne. [3]
Clunes is a town in Victoria, Australia, 36 kilometres north of Ballarat, in the Shire of Hepburn.At the 2016 census it had a population of 1,728. [1]Clunes is best known as the site of Victoria's first registered gold discovery in 1850 and its first gold strike in 1873, which lasted three months.
William Cross Yuille (28 March 1819 – 19 July 1894) [1] was a Scottish Australian pastoralist notable as, after immigrating to Australia, as a founder of Ballarat as well as for his role in the establishment of the Victorian horse racing.
The area is situated east of Ballarat, south of Bendigo, north and east of Melbourne, and west of the alpine areas. Major towns of the Central Highlands include Castlemaine, Creswick, Daylesford, Gisborne, Kyneton and Woodend. All these towns are located in what is usually referred to as the West Central Highlands.
Grenville was first incorporated as a road district on 27 August 1861, and became a shire on 16 February 1864. On 1 October 1915, under the Local Government Amendment Act 1914, it absorbed the areas of two boroughs; Browns and Scarsdale, which was incorporated on 25 July 1862, with an area of 23.31 square kilometres (5,760 acres), and Smythesdale, incorporated on 12 April 1861, with an area of ...