| North Eastern Victoria Directory |
 About the region: North Eastern Victoria is one of Australia's most prosperous cooler climate agricultural regions in Australia. The city of Shepparton is located in the rich Goulburn Valley, an area known as The Food Bowl of Australia. Not surprisingly, the region is rich in wine making and gourmet produce maunfacture, awarding winning locally produced cheeses and smallgoods are a feature of towns in the Rutherglen, Wangaratta and Milawa area.
The southern end of the region includes Lake Eildon which is one of the largest artificial lakes in the state, much of which is surrounded by national park. Beyond Lake Eildon to the north and east is Victoria's High Country, home to a number of major alpine and ski resorts including Mount Buller, Falls Creek, Mount Buffalo and Mount Hotham with its airport which offers direct flights from Melbourne and Sydney during the snow season. Australia's most famous bushranger, Ned Kelly, grew up here, and spent most of his life dodging the Victorian police, hiding out in the region's mountain ranges. Kelly was finally captured at the North East Victorian settlement of Glenrowan, now recognised as the heart of what is still known today as Kelly Country.
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Echuca paddlesteamer |
Ned Kelly's cell, Beechworth |
See also: High Country
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National Parks
Natural Attractions
Caves
- Eldorado: Kelly Cave; Police Cave
Waterfalls
- Beechworth: Woolshed Falls
- Eildon: Snob's Creek Falls; Cumberland Falls
- Euroa: Gooram Falls
- Taggerty: Rubicon Falls
Wine Regions
Historic Places
- Alexandra: Timber Tramway Museum (heritage railway)
- Beechworth: Robert O'Hara Burke Memorial Museum; the cell where Ned Kelly was held after his arrest; Beechworth Gaol when Ned Kelly's mother served time; Carriage Museum; cordial factory; Central Conservation Area of 32 heritage listed buildings including Post Office (1867); Powder Magazine (1859); Court House where Ned Kelly appeared; Chinese funeral ovens; Transwell's Hotel
- Benalla: buildings and cemetery relating to bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang
- Beveridge: Ned Kelly's family home ruins
- Bright: Court House (1861-62); Log Lock-Up (c.1870)
- Chiltern: Rose of Sharon Gold Mine Museum (1891); historic buildings
- Eldorado: Eldorado Dredge (1935); hut of Kelly Gang police informer Aaron Sherritt; Kelly Cave; Police Cave; Wartime charcoal pits; site of the McEvoy gold mine
- Euroa: Buildings relating to Ned Kelly
- Glenrowan: Ned Kelly memorial; site of bushranger Ned Kelly's last stand
- Greta: remains of the Kelly homestead
- Jamieson: historic buildings
- Kilmore: Historic Cable Tram (Hudson Park); Victoria Tramway Museum; historic buildings
- Lancefield: Lancefield Central Conservation Area (includes post Office; Court House; churches, Shops and Hotels
- Lauraville: Gaffneys Creek goldmining area (gold first discovered here by Terence Gaffney in 1860)
- Mansfield: obelisk (above) honouring the memory of three police officers slain when they tried to take Ned Kelly at Stringybark Creek in 1878
- Murchison: Days Mill (c.1865); Ossario Italian war cemetery. During World War II many Italian prisoners of war were interned in this area. A Prisoners of War Memorial to those who died was erected in Murchison; Riveted steel bridge (1937)
- Nagambie: historic Kirwan's Bridge (1890)
- Rushworth: old cemetery; Rushworth has several classified buildings
- Rutherglen: All Saints Winery Wahgunyah (c.1880); heritage listed buildings in the township.
- Shepparton: Emerald Bank Heritage Park; 'Wanganui' homestead (c.1900)
- Tatura: Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum; Dhurringile Homestead (1871), a 65-room mansion used to detain German officers held in Australia as World War II prisoners
- Wangaratta: bushranger Mad Dog Morgan is buried at the local cemetery; historic buildings
- Whroo: Whroo Historic Reserve
- Yackandandah: Military Museum at Bandiana; historic buildings
- Yea: Cheviot historic railway tunnel
Misc. Places of Interest
Drives
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