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Trawalla is a rural district on the Western Highway, 35 km west of Ballarat and 8 km west of Beaufort. In 1838 immigrant pastoralists from Scotland took up the Trawalla pastoral run, apparently taking the name from an Aboriginal expression describing flood waters or heavy rain.
Trawalla is a town in central Western Victoria, Australia, located on the Western Highway, 41 kilometres (25 mi) west of Ballarat and 154 kilometres (96 mi) west of Melbourne, in the Shire of Pyrenees.
Trawalla is a town in central Western Victoria, Australia, located on the Western Highway, 41 kilometres west of Ballarat and 154 kilometres west of Melbourne, in the Shire of Pyrenees.
Trawalla is of architectural and historical significance to the State of Victoria. Why is it significant? Trawalla is of architectural significance as a distinguished example of a 19th century Melbourne mansion and as a substantial work of noted mansion house architect, Levi Powell.
Scullin was born in Trawalla, Victoria on 18 September 1876. [1] His parents, John and Ann (née Logan) Scullin, were both Irish Catholics from County Londonderry. His father was a railway labourer, who emigrated to Australia in his 20s. His mother joined her husband in Australia later. [2]
First settled in the 1830's the Trawalla property has associations with some of Victoria's prominent early pastoral families, the Kirklands, the Goldsmiths, the Simonsons, the Wilsons and then Captain Bridges (later Admiral) until 1921 when the Mackenzie family bacame the owners.
Trawalla, a two storey Italianate stuccoed brick mansion, was constructed in two stages, firstly as a 20-room residence for Melbourne merchant George Stevenson in 1867-68. In 1885 it was enlarged to 50 rooms for retired pastoralist John Simson of Trawalla near Beaufort.
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