Rosedale, Victoria

Rosedale
Victoria

Statue of the Melbourne Cup winner, Patrobas at Rosedale.
Rosedale
Coordinates 38°09′00″S 146°46′59″E / 38.15°S 146.783°E / -38.15; 146.783Coordinates: 38°09′00″S 146°46′59″E / 38.15°S 146.783°E / -38.15; 146.783
Population 1,077 (2006 census)[1]
Postcode(s) 3847
Location
LGA(s) Shire of Wellington
County Buln Buln
State electorate(s) Gippsland South
Federal Division(s) Gippsland
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall
45 °C
113 °F		 -4 °C
25 °F		 ?

Rosedale is a pastoral and agricultural town 184 kilometres east of Melbourne via the Princes Highway. Once a staging post on the Port Albert to Sale coach run, it was once the administrative centre of the Shire of Rosedale which extended to the east and included Ninety Mile Beach. It is now part of the Wellington Shire centred in Sale. At the 2006 census, Rosedale had a population of 1,077.[1]

The earliest European inhabitant in the district is thought to have been a man named Blind Joe who lived in a hut on the Latrobe River and the first sale of 'town lots' in Rosedale, on 20 May 1855, took place there.[2] The town is named after and built upon the site of a station owned by David Parry-Okedon, who, in 1843, called his run Rosedale after his wife, Rosalie.

Rosedale Post Office opened on 8 February 1859.[3]

The area was once part of the Holey Plain grazing run, owned by the Curlewis brothers. Edward Crooke, who emigrated to Australia in 1837 and purchased a station at Omeo in the early 1840s, used the run as a holding station for the livestock which he drove to Port Albert for shipment to Van Diemen's Land. He later leased the property and his son built an impressive homestead with a four-tiered tower on the site in 1889. Crooke's descendants still live in the district.

The town has a football club in the North Gippsland Football League.

References

  1. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Rosedale (Urban Centre/Locality)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
  2. ↑ "DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) (Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia). 9 May 1855. p. 5. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, retrieved 2008-04-11
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