Aerial view - Historic images - Walkaround : Smeaton Victoria Australia

Smeaton is a rural town in the state of Victoria, Australia, near the town of Creswick and 131km (81mi) north west of the state capital Melbourne. The town was founded by Scottish settler Captain John Hepburn who was a colonial squatter in the 1840s. Hepburn held under Government licence about 20,000 acres (80 km²) for his sheep and cattle run which he drove overland from Sydney. Smeaton Post Office opened on 21 June 1860 and closed in 1993. The local Primary School which opened in 1861, succumbed to dwindling student numbers and closed at the end of the 2013 school year in December. There were 12 students in the final year. Credits and References: State Library – Victoria https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ Photographers and contributors; Ebenezer and David Syme (newspaper) 1868 Collins, John T. (1907 – 2001) Melbourne : Dept. of Lands and Survey Melbourne University Library - https://digitised-collections.unimelb... Smeaton House - https://digitised-collections.unimelb... Victorian Collections - https://victoriancollections.net.au/i... Victorian Interpretive Projects Inc. - https://victoriancollections.net.au/i... Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smeaton... __________________________________________________________________________________________ We welcome you to comment, click the 'thumbs up' / 'like' button if you enjoyed the content and please click to subscribe; subscribing is TOTALLY free and helps with our channel. We would like to keep this channel kids and family friendly as much as possible, but also want viewers to express their positive thoughts or criticisms - Any suggestions or ideas for new drone locations, places to visit or requests on something historical for us to research are welcome in the comments; even to promote a business or location ! If you require an aerial video for your business or location, we'll give it a go and we are non-for-profit ... It's a hobby we enjoy doing. Any anti-social comments, poor language or links to your viewing choices can be left at our email address, so others don't need to experience them and us to delete! Also political, religious, discriminatory and racial remarks will be subject to the same. Urban Aerial Explorer can be contacted via email C/O Ludwig or son Alexander : [email protected] Facebook -   / urbanaerialexplorer   Postal Mail : 2-18 Davisons Place Melbourne 3000 Victoria Australia