Until European settlement, Hanging Rock was hidden in the landscape by trees and undergrowth. It was part of the run that Edward Dryden leased from the government for £10 a year from 1839 until the land was surveyed in the 1850s.
The mystery of the missing stone
Woodend’s Five Mile Creek bridge was widened in 1958. Every stone was numbered and put back in its original place, except for one.
B4 it was a classroom
To the students and staff of Braemar College, it is classroom B4. But when Braemar House opened in December 1890, the room immediately to the right of the entrance hall was the drawing room, a place where visitors went to relax.
Before petrol, customers here bought beer
McKenzie’s Hotel sat roughly where Woodend’s BP petrol station and 19th Hole car park stand, and was built by Alfred McKenzie in 1853 as the London & Liverpool Hotel.
The house designed by Canberra’s architect
This house in the Macedon Ranges was one of several in Australia to have been designed by the American architect Walter Burley Griffin.