Kangaroo Ground War Memorial Park

A concept to guide the Kangaroo Ground War Memorial Park Master Plan is currently being prepared with all participating park stakeholders. It also inlcudes input from the community from a survey which is now closed.

Learn more about the Park from this Wikipedia article which was recently updated by YPRL staff during a campaign for librarians to improve and add content to Wikipedia.

For more information about Council plans, visit Nillumbik Participate.

Image: Moor-rul viewing platform.

This blog post was first published on the YPRL website 4 May 2020 and has been updated.

Kangaroo Ground Fire Brigade

City Skyline from Kangaroo Ground. [ca 1978] Source: Diamond Valley Local History Digitisation Project

2017 marks the 125th anniversary of the Kangaroo Ground Fire Brigade.  Community celebrations include an Anniversary Ball and a Community Day at the Kangaroo Ground Oval on Sunday 29th October.

To read more about the history of the Brigade and the upcoming events see this article in the Diamond Valley Leader.

Local pioneers listed on newly digitised records

The passenger list of the 1839 voyage of "David Clark" has been digitised as part of a pilot program at the State Records of NSW. Many of these passsengers settled in the Kangaroo Ground area, including the Bell family of Gulf Station, Yarra Glen.

State Records of NSW have released part of a pilot project to digitise the microfilm copies of the Persons on bounty ships (Agent's Immigrant Lists), 1838-96; Persons on bounty ships arriving at Port Phillip, 1839-51,and Germans on bounty ships, 1849-52.

Scroll through the digital copies of these lists, ship by ship, just as you would if you were going through a microfilm in the reading rooms. Please note however, that these digital copies are being provided as reference copies only.

State Records of NSW welcome feedback.

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