Kangaroo Ground Chronicle

Copies of the Kangaroo Ground Chronicle: newsletter of the Andrew Ross Museum are now accessible in both hard copy and electronic form at Eltham Library. A complete run of the newsletter 1995-2009 is available and searchable in PDF format on the Local history computer.

The Andrew Ross Museum was established in 1993 in the old schoolhouse (built circa 1878) in Kangaroo Ground, Victoria. The Museum is dedicated to interpreting the life and times of Andrew Ross and the history of Kangaroo Ground from indigenous to early white settlement.

Andrew Ross Museum

The Summer newsletter of the Andrew Ross Musem, Kangaroo Ground has been received. Informative articles include:
* David Scott, a former Kangaroo Ground resident, is the subject of Dick Austin's "High Achievers of Kangaroo Ground" series.
*Report on Old Birch Cottage.
*The Dam at Alma Road.
*The years 1914 to 1954 were troubled times for the various owners of Pigeon Bank
*Broadcaster and museum subscriber Sheila Dixon makes a return to the newlsletter, recalling her childhood home when chooks enjoyed a good life.
and more...

Birch Cottage

The Andrew Ross Museum in association with Parks Victoria has been busy over recent months researching and documenting Birch’s Cottage, a 100 year-old cottage built on a miner’s right on the old Kangaroo-Christmas Hills Road, seen as the last surviving example of its type.

The Museum is having an Open Day on Sunday 21 October at 2 pm. There will be an entertaining hour of audio-visual display, good conversation and light refreshment.
Contact: 9439 5679