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homebush victoria wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 history toggle history subsection 1 1 1850 1880 1 2 1880 1930 2 schools 3 see also 4 references 5 external links toggle the table of contents homebush victoria 1 language اردو edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide coordinates 37 03 s 143 31 e 37 050 s 143 517 e 37 050 143 517 from wikipedia the free encyclopedia town in victoria australia town in victoria australia homebush town lower homebush primary school homebush coordinates 37 03 s 143 31 e 37 050 s 143 517 e 37 050 143 517 country australia state victoria lga pyrenees shire location 191 km 119 mi nw of melbourne 76 km 47 mi n of ballarat 18 km 11 mi w of maryborough 10 km 6 2 mi e of avoca established 1853 government state electorate ripon federal division mallee population total 31 sal 2021 1 postcode 3465 homebush is a locality 10 kilometres 6 mi from avoca in central victoria australia it is located within the pyrenees shire history edit 1850 1880 edit first settled in 1853 after a rush to a rich claim nearby the town reached the height of its prosperity in the 1880s but homebush owed its existence entirely to the mines when the gold ran out and the mines closed the town rapidly declined and died all that remains of a once flourishing community is a school building and some mullock heaps planned development began in june 1860 when following a second rush to the diggings homebush was surveyed and its streets laid out homebush post office opened on 1 october 1863 closing in 1944 2 an office of lands and survey map shows the township of homebush coordinates 37 03 21 s 143 31 46 e 37 0559341 s 143 5293448 e 37 0559341 143 5293448 as it was in january 1863 the map shows the land subdivisions some buildings and the location of the star hotel and the wesleyan chapel 3 three churches were built and within little more than a decade the town opened its railway station homebush railway station by 1884 homebush was firmly established as a business centre with two agents a bootmaker a butcher two carpenters two contractors nine farmers a gardener a registrar a station master a storekeeper and a teacher lower homebush three miles away where the commercial life of the town had moved closer to some deep lead mines had a blacksmith two bootmakers a carpenter a draper an engineer two farmers three hotels two mining managers and twelve stores 4 the 1872 methodist church wesleyan chapel upper homebush the methodist church wesleyan chapel was built in 1872 5 as the town declined in 1928 the church was dismantled and moved 6 km to rathscar west 6 1880 1930 edit in 1883 vale s reef mine one of the district s largest closed for lack of capital and over the next decade many other companies also ceased operations in 1889 hopes revived when the madame hopkins company was formed with a large investment of capital to work an untried deep lead to the east of homebush but this new company was not successful lower homebush main street as it appeared in the 1890s in 1909 the excelsior company opened in homebush and reputedly yielded rich returns from relatively small quantities of quartz but by 1920 all large scale gold mining activity in avoca shire had ended the combined population of homebush and homebush lower had fallen to only 150 a huge decline from its peak of 14 000 during the rushes businesses closed and buildings were dismantled 4 schools edit the rise and decline of homebush and lower homebush can be seen in the history of its schools in 1861 a church of england school opened with classes held in a rented building over the next two decades the number of students increased to more than two hundred and two more schools were built one at homebush with another even bigger at lower homebush the lower homebush primary school coordinates 37 01 47 s 143 31 37 e 37 0298153 s 143 5269012 e 37 0298153 143 5269012 but by 1903 the average attendance at the lower homebush school was only forty gold yields had dropped and mining companies had ceased operating homebush school closed permanently in 1908 lower homebush school had small enrolments from the 1930s and by 1967 it too had closed by then the homebush school had long gone 4 the pyrenees shire council has documented the history of the lower homebush primary school in the avoca heritage study 1864 1994 volume 3 7 see also edit australian gold rushes bung bong victoria homebush railway station victoria rathscar victoria wareek victoria references edit australian bureau of statistics 28 june 2022 homebush vic suburb and locality australian census 2021 quickstats retrieved 28 june 2022 phoenix auctions history post office list retrieved 29 march 2021 special lands township of homebush parish of glenmona lithographed at the office of lands and survey melbourne january 20 1863 office of lands and survey melbourne 20 january 1863 retrieved 27 june 2017 1 2 3 wegener douglas a history of homebush avoca and district historical society inc retrieved 24 december 2025 homebush methodist church former churches australia 30 july 2018 retrieved 30 july 2018 avoca heritage study 1864 1994 volume 3 pyrenees shire council february 1995 p 15 archived from the original on 14 march 2018 retrieved 27 june 2017 avoca heritage study 1864 1994 volume 3 pyrenees shire council february 1995 p 151 archived from the original on 14 march 2018 retrieved 22 june 2017 external links edit avoca and district historical society v t e localities in the shire of pyrenees town amphitheatre avoca beaufort buangor burrumbeet elmhurst lexton linton moonambel navarre raglan redbank skipton smythesdale snake valley streatham trawalla waubra locality barkly bo peep brewster bung bong burnbank carngham carranballac chepstowe chute cross roads crowlands ercildoune evansford eversley frenchmans glenbrae glenlofty glenlogie glenpatrick hillcrest homebush lake goldsmith lake wongan lamplough landsborough landsborough west langi kal kal lillicur main lead mena park middle creek mount emu mount lonarch natte yallock nerring nowhere creek percydale pittong rathscar rathscar west shays flat stockyard hill stoneleigh tanwood wareek warrenmang waterloo wattle creek territory divided with another lga retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title homebush _victoria oldid 1329122743 categories towns in 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