Violet Town - Things to do

Heritage walk
You can commence from any point along the walk, they are shown on the map, however let’s assume you start from point number one.
	1. Catholic Church
	2. Former police station
	3. The Anglican Church of Saint Dunstan was built in 1879. The Church Hall housed a private school called Euston College for a short time and early Masonic meetings were held here.
	4. The blue and white home on the left is another of the three oldest and was once a chemist shop. The McFarlane family lived here for many years.
	5. garage
	6. site of Underwood’s first hotel, demolished after the move to Cowslip St
	7. The Honeysuckle Bridge was built we believe by David Lennox (Princes Bridge Melbourne) in the late 1800s. The original granite wall is still standing and worth a look if the creek isn’t too high. The bridge was extended in later years and a plaque attached.
	8. the site of another former hotel on the north side of Honeysuckle Creek
	20. The old house on your right was purchased by Mr Arthur Peacock on 1 March 1913 from Mrs Bradley for 200 pound, land and two rooms.
	22. On the right, the old garage at No 4. The house is one of the oldest three remaining in Violet Town.
	25. The second last house on the left befroe the bridge is another of the three oldest houses and the mid-wife lived here for many years.
	26. The stone wall on the left is the remains of Crockers General Store. Adjacent to the wall stood the Commercial Hotel and within this building a Cobb & Co. Coach station and a blacksmith shop. These buildings, sadly, were pulled down in the 1970s.
	Continue along to McDiarmids Road, turn right and continue over rthe railway line into town.

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First glances are deceiving. There are many and diverse things to do in and around Violet Town and all you need to do is to find the one that interests you.

For those with a sense of history take a walk around the town and check out some of the points interest in the town.

Violet Town on the recommendation of Surveyor General Major Mitchell, was the earliest surveyed town in rural Victoria and High Street is part of the original Melbourne to Sydney Road. High Street also contains some of the earliest residential buildings extant in Violet Town.

If the environment and natural bushland is of interest then the Strathbogie Ranges is for you. Travel just a few kilometres to the east of Violet Town and delight in the rugged hills, the vista of distant hills and valleys, kangaroos, koalas, natural and remnant vegetation and much more.

If you would like to continue inspecting Violet Town’s heritage, collect another flyer that describes another part of our history.

Before trains started rolling through Violet Town in the 1870s, High St was the commercial centre with two hotels one on the north and one on the south side of Honeysuckle Creek, and another with a Cobb & Co. office and a general store.