IVANHOE
Ivanhoe is a residential suburb 9 km. north-east of Melbourne, south of Heidelberg. The land occupied by Ivanhoe was one of several portions adjoining the Warringal (later Heidelberg) village surveyed in 1837. Sales occurred the following year and, the Ivanhoe portion was considered to be of unusual fertility and landscape appeal. It had Darebin Creek on the west and the Yarra River on the south. By the 1850s there was an Ivanhoe village, a name derived form Sir William Scott's novel, and used from 1853.
During the 1850s smaller farms were taken up and by the next decade there were two hotels, market gardens, orchards, an elementary racecourse and "gentlemen's villas". A state primary school which replaced the one in the Anglican church, was opened in 1881. Between 1910 and 1930 Ivanhoe underwent extensive residential development.
JACANA
Jacana is 16 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume. At the 2006 Census, Jacana had a population of 1,963. The name Jacana was applied to an area between Broadmeadows and Glenroy in the 1950s by the Housing Commission of Victoria (HCV). The name comes from Jacana Street, to the east of the Craigieburn railway line. Both the street and the suburb are slightly to the north of the Jacana railway station, which was built to service the suburb in 1959.
JEWELL
Jewell is a railway station located in the suburb of Brunswick, on the Upfield railway line. ewell station opened on September 9, 1884 as South Brunswick, and was renamed Jewell in 1954.
Jolimont railyard
JOLIMONT
Jolimont is a residential precinct in East Melbourne, 1.5 km. from the GPO, Melbourne. In 1839 Charles Joseph La Trobe arrived in Melbourne as the Superintendent of Port Phillip. He brought a transportable dwelling and was obliged to buy land on which to erect it. He was the successful (and only) bidder for five hectares, off the south side of Wellington Parade, set in the corner of the Government Paddock (later Yarra Park). The name Jolimont was reputedly given by La Trobe's French-Swiss wife: joli mont - a pretty hill. In 1858 about one hectare of the La Trobe land was acquired by Sir James Palmer, the pioneer who had operated Palmers punt over the Yarra River at Hawthorn (c.1842), later rising to become Mayor of Melbourne and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. The remainder of Jolimont was subdivided, with Palmer Street, and Agnes and Charles Streets which were named after La Trobe's children.
Jolimont developed into a quiet residential precinct, with Jolimont Square being the largest landholding and the remaining streets having smallish houses. In 1889, however, a warehouse was erected in Agnes Street, and ten years later it became the Bedggood Boot Factory. La Trobe's cottage remained in its grounds until recovered in 1959 and re-erected near the Botanic Gardens, South Yarra.. In 1887 a railway line was laid along the wide Wellington Parade reservation, and the Jolimont station was opened in 1901.
JORDANVILLE
Jordanville is a railway station located in the suburb of Mount Waverley, on the Glen Waverley railway line. The station was opened in May 1930. Its name refers to prionerring property that existed nearby.
KALKALLO
Kalkallo is 33 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume. Kinlochewe Post Office opened on 1 November 1850, was renamed Donnybrook in 1854 and Kalkallo in 1874, before closing in 1971. The name is of Aboriginal origin.
KALLISTA
Kallista is 36 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Kallista had a population of 1032. Kallista (then known as South Sassafras), The Patch and Sherbrooke were opened up to settlement in 1893-4. The Post Office opened around 1902 and was known as Sassafras South until 1925. . The Great Depression saw an influx of people buying the weekend cottages from Melburnians who could not afford to keep them up. The new owners were hoping to support their families from the blocks of land. Kallista Village is particularly known for its proximity to Sherbrooke Forest. Walks around Sherbrooke Forest range from easy to somewhat steep. Sherbrooke is well known for its Superb Lyrebird population, which has increased recently with efforts to reduce the feral cat and fox population.
Kalorama
KALORAMA
Kalorama, a residential area in the Mt. Dandenong Ranges, is 36 km. east of Melbourne. Situated on the Mt. Dandenong Tourist Road, it is immediately north of the Olinda State Forest. The name, given in about 1932, is derived from the Greek work Kalos, denoting beautiful panoramic views. There is a viewing position near the Five Ways Corner, a general store and tea rooms. Much of Kalorama is parkland and forest reserve, which adds to the spacious residential environment occasioned by large houses. Some of them date from pre-war times when Kalorama was a weekend resort. Several resort and guest-house places continue to offer accommodation to visitors in the area. Kalorama has two churches and a public hall. The nearest school is at Mt. Dandenong.
KANANOOK
Kananook is an unmanned railway station on the Frankston railway line, situated between the Frankston Freeway and Wells Road in Seaford. It is named after nearby Kananook Creek, which in turn retains its Aboriginal name. Its meaing is not known.
KANGAROO GROUND
Kangaroo Gound is 26 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Nillumbik. At the 2006 Census, Kangaroo Ground had a population of 1019. Kangaroo Ground is sited within a Green Belt. The suburb's name refers to the abundance of wildlife in the area, such as kangaroos, koalas, kookaburras, wedge tail eagles, deer, snakes, lizards and many other species.
KARINGAL
Karingal is a locality within the suburb of Frankston in the Local Government Area of the City of Frankston. The name is of Aboriginal origin. The "Ballam Ballam" estate was home to prominent early settlers of the Frankston area, the Liardet's. Frank Liardet, who some believe Frankston is named after, established the property in 1854. The original homestead "Ballam Park" still stands in Karingal today, and is now heritage-listed. It is also home to the Frankston Historical Society, which conducts regular guided tours of the homestead.
KEALBA
Kealba is 16 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Brimbank. At the 2006 Census, Kealba had a population of 3186. The land was part of the Overnewton Estate owned by the late Mr. William Taylor who had Overnewton Castle built on the Calder Highway. During the 1960s the land was sold for subdivisional purposes, the first land auction taking place on 22nd of March 1969. During this time the area came under the St. Albans postal district. Over the following years all the land was subdivided, a High School named Kealba established as well as a few light industrial areas. Under the Survey Co-Ordination Act 1958 the City of Keilor applied to a name changed from St. Albans East to the name of Kealba. The name of the suburb is derived from the letters of two of its neighbouring suburbs, namely Keilor and St Albans.
KEILOR / KEILOR DOWNS / KEILOR NORTH / KEILOR PARK / KEILOR EAST
Keilor is 18 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Brimbank and Hume. At the 2006 Census, Keilor had a population of 5,670. The Wurundjeri Aborigines inhabited the area for approximately 40,000 years. It is one of the oldest inhabited sites in Australia. The first Europeans to pass through the area were Charles Grimes surveying party who followed the Maribynong River upstream in the Summer of 1803. In about 1838 the first European settlements were established by pastoralists James Watson and Alexander Hunter. James Watson is thought to have named the area after a place called Keilor in Forfarshire, Scotland where his father farmed a large property. In the 1850s people would stopover at Keilor during their travels from Melbourne to the Bendigo goldfields. The area became an agricultural district and remained so until after World War II when the suburb saw a rapid increase in population due to cheap land and the establishment of large industries in surrounding suburbs.
KENSINGTON
Kensigton is a residential and decreasingly industrial suburb 3 km. north-west of Melbourne. It is commonly associated with Flemington, once being in the Flemington and Kensington borough (1882-1906). Its northern boundary is Racecourse Road, the western boundary is Smithfield Road and the Maribyrnong River, the southern boundary is Dynon Road and the eastern boundary is the Moonee Ponds Creek. Kensington contained the Newmarket saleyards and abattoirs, and in its south there are the Dynon Road railway yards and a small area known as Browns Hill east of the railway yards.
Kensington has a substantial low-lying alluvial area on which the abattoirs was built. To the east was Seagull Swamp, now J.J. Holland Park. North of the low-lying area is a basaltic layer, defined by an escarpment at the back of the abattoirs and skirting the swamp to Browns Hill at Lloyd and Radcliffe Streets. Healy's Point Hotel below Browns Hill has frequently had its cellar filled with flood water. Cattle saleyards opened in 1859, the year before a railway line from North Melbourne to Essendon began operation, with stations at Kensington and Newmarket. Although sheep and cattle were driven to the stockyard on the hoof (and used residential streets as stock routes until the 1950s), the Newmarket railway siding also became active during night hours for holding and delivering stock. In the mid 1870s Kensington included a small area named Balmoral. Future subdivisions yielded street names with a similar regal flavour, somewhat ironical given the proximity of the proletarian slaughter yards. In addition to the riverside industries there were three tanners, a candlemaker and a chapel with a school. The swamp areas were virtually untouched until the Army established an ordnance depot at the back of the abattoirs in 1941.
Ivanhoe is a residential suburb 9 km. north-east of Melbourne, south of Heidelberg. The land occupied by Ivanhoe was one of several portions adjoining the Warringal (later Heidelberg) village surveyed in 1837. Sales occurred the following year and, the Ivanhoe portion was considered to be of unusual fertility and landscape appeal. It had Darebin Creek on the west and the Yarra River on the south. By the 1850s there was an Ivanhoe village, a name derived form Sir William Scott's novel, and used from 1853.
During the 1850s smaller farms were taken up and by the next decade there were two hotels, market gardens, orchards, an elementary racecourse and "gentlemen's villas". A state primary school which replaced the one in the Anglican church, was opened in 1881. Between 1910 and 1930 Ivanhoe underwent extensive residential development.
JACANA
Jacana is 16 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume. At the 2006 Census, Jacana had a population of 1,963. The name Jacana was applied to an area between Broadmeadows and Glenroy in the 1950s by the Housing Commission of Victoria (HCV). The name comes from Jacana Street, to the east of the Craigieburn railway line. Both the street and the suburb are slightly to the north of the Jacana railway station, which was built to service the suburb in 1959.
JEWELL
Jewell is a railway station located in the suburb of Brunswick, on the Upfield railway line. ewell station opened on September 9, 1884 as South Brunswick, and was renamed Jewell in 1954.
Jolimont railyard
JOLIMONT
Jolimont is a residential precinct in East Melbourne, 1.5 km. from the GPO, Melbourne. In 1839 Charles Joseph La Trobe arrived in Melbourne as the Superintendent of Port Phillip. He brought a transportable dwelling and was obliged to buy land on which to erect it. He was the successful (and only) bidder for five hectares, off the south side of Wellington Parade, set in the corner of the Government Paddock (later Yarra Park). The name Jolimont was reputedly given by La Trobe's French-Swiss wife: joli mont - a pretty hill. In 1858 about one hectare of the La Trobe land was acquired by Sir James Palmer, the pioneer who had operated Palmers punt over the Yarra River at Hawthorn (c.1842), later rising to become Mayor of Melbourne and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. The remainder of Jolimont was subdivided, with Palmer Street, and Agnes and Charles Streets which were named after La Trobe's children.
Jolimont developed into a quiet residential precinct, with Jolimont Square being the largest landholding and the remaining streets having smallish houses. In 1889, however, a warehouse was erected in Agnes Street, and ten years later it became the Bedggood Boot Factory. La Trobe's cottage remained in its grounds until recovered in 1959 and re-erected near the Botanic Gardens, South Yarra.. In 1887 a railway line was laid along the wide Wellington Parade reservation, and the Jolimont station was opened in 1901.
JORDANVILLE
Jordanville is a railway station located in the suburb of Mount Waverley, on the Glen Waverley railway line. The station was opened in May 1930. Its name refers to prionerring property that existed nearby.
KALKALLO
Kalkallo is 33 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume. Kinlochewe Post Office opened on 1 November 1850, was renamed Donnybrook in 1854 and Kalkallo in 1874, before closing in 1971. The name is of Aboriginal origin.
KALLISTA
Kallista is 36 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Kallista had a population of 1032. Kallista (then known as South Sassafras), The Patch and Sherbrooke were opened up to settlement in 1893-4. The Post Office opened around 1902 and was known as Sassafras South until 1925. . The Great Depression saw an influx of people buying the weekend cottages from Melburnians who could not afford to keep them up. The new owners were hoping to support their families from the blocks of land. Kallista Village is particularly known for its proximity to Sherbrooke Forest. Walks around Sherbrooke Forest range from easy to somewhat steep. Sherbrooke is well known for its Superb Lyrebird population, which has increased recently with efforts to reduce the feral cat and fox population.
Kalorama
KALORAMA
Kalorama, a residential area in the Mt. Dandenong Ranges, is 36 km. east of Melbourne. Situated on the Mt. Dandenong Tourist Road, it is immediately north of the Olinda State Forest. The name, given in about 1932, is derived from the Greek work Kalos, denoting beautiful panoramic views. There is a viewing position near the Five Ways Corner, a general store and tea rooms. Much of Kalorama is parkland and forest reserve, which adds to the spacious residential environment occasioned by large houses. Some of them date from pre-war times when Kalorama was a weekend resort. Several resort and guest-house places continue to offer accommodation to visitors in the area. Kalorama has two churches and a public hall. The nearest school is at Mt. Dandenong.
KANANOOK
Kananook is an unmanned railway station on the Frankston railway line, situated between the Frankston Freeway and Wells Road in Seaford. It is named after nearby Kananook Creek, which in turn retains its Aboriginal name. Its meaing is not known.
KANGAROO GROUND
Kangaroo Gound is 26 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Nillumbik. At the 2006 Census, Kangaroo Ground had a population of 1019. Kangaroo Ground is sited within a Green Belt. The suburb's name refers to the abundance of wildlife in the area, such as kangaroos, koalas, kookaburras, wedge tail eagles, deer, snakes, lizards and many other species.
KARINGAL
Karingal is a locality within the suburb of Frankston in the Local Government Area of the City of Frankston. The name is of Aboriginal origin. The "Ballam Ballam" estate was home to prominent early settlers of the Frankston area, the Liardet's. Frank Liardet, who some believe Frankston is named after, established the property in 1854. The original homestead "Ballam Park" still stands in Karingal today, and is now heritage-listed. It is also home to the Frankston Historical Society, which conducts regular guided tours of the homestead.
KEALBA
Kealba is 16 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Brimbank. At the 2006 Census, Kealba had a population of 3186. The land was part of the Overnewton Estate owned by the late Mr. William Taylor who had Overnewton Castle built on the Calder Highway. During the 1960s the land was sold for subdivisional purposes, the first land auction taking place on 22nd of March 1969. During this time the area came under the St. Albans postal district. Over the following years all the land was subdivided, a High School named Kealba established as well as a few light industrial areas. Under the Survey Co-Ordination Act 1958 the City of Keilor applied to a name changed from St. Albans East to the name of Kealba. The name of the suburb is derived from the letters of two of its neighbouring suburbs, namely Keilor and St Albans.
KEILOR / KEILOR DOWNS / KEILOR NORTH / KEILOR PARK / KEILOR EAST
Keilor is 18 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Brimbank and Hume. At the 2006 Census, Keilor had a population of 5,670. The Wurundjeri Aborigines inhabited the area for approximately 40,000 years. It is one of the oldest inhabited sites in Australia. The first Europeans to pass through the area were Charles Grimes surveying party who followed the Maribynong River upstream in the Summer of 1803. In about 1838 the first European settlements were established by pastoralists James Watson and Alexander Hunter. James Watson is thought to have named the area after a place called Keilor in Forfarshire, Scotland where his father farmed a large property. In the 1850s people would stopover at Keilor during their travels from Melbourne to the Bendigo goldfields. The area became an agricultural district and remained so until after World War II when the suburb saw a rapid increase in population due to cheap land and the establishment of large industries in surrounding suburbs.
KENSINGTON
Kensigton is a residential and decreasingly industrial suburb 3 km. north-west of Melbourne. It is commonly associated with Flemington, once being in the Flemington and Kensington borough (1882-1906). Its northern boundary is Racecourse Road, the western boundary is Smithfield Road and the Maribyrnong River, the southern boundary is Dynon Road and the eastern boundary is the Moonee Ponds Creek. Kensington contained the Newmarket saleyards and abattoirs, and in its south there are the Dynon Road railway yards and a small area known as Browns Hill east of the railway yards.
Kensington has a substantial low-lying alluvial area on which the abattoirs was built. To the east was Seagull Swamp, now J.J. Holland Park. North of the low-lying area is a basaltic layer, defined by an escarpment at the back of the abattoirs and skirting the swamp to Browns Hill at Lloyd and Radcliffe Streets. Healy's Point Hotel below Browns Hill has frequently had its cellar filled with flood water. Cattle saleyards opened in 1859, the year before a railway line from North Melbourne to Essendon began operation, with stations at Kensington and Newmarket. Although sheep and cattle were driven to the stockyard on the hoof (and used residential streets as stock routes until the 1950s), the Newmarket railway siding also became active during night hours for holding and delivering stock. In the mid 1870s Kensington included a small area named Balmoral. Future subdivisions yielded street names with a similar regal flavour, somewhat ironical given the proximity of the proletarian slaughter yards. In addition to the riverside industries there were three tanners, a candlemaker and a chapel with a school. The swamp areas were virtually untouched until the Army established an ordnance depot at the back of the abattoirs in 1941.
