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| Pascoe Vale Road was originally known as Sydney Road,
being one of the preferred routes from Melbourne to Sydney for many
years. It is also interesting to note that the current City
Link Freeway was not the first tollway through the Strathmore area.
This original Sydney Road was a tollway with a set of tollgates located
where the Road crosses Moonee Ponds Creek at the Northern
Boundary of the Strathmore area. It ceased to operate as a tollway some
time after the extension of the North East railway line to Sydney made
the tollway unprofitable. The bridge on Pascoe Vale Road
across Moonee Ponds Creek was originally constructed in 1857 at a cost
of 1750 pounds. The bridge was replaced with a stone bridge in 1875. |
| During the 1850s goldrushes Mt. Alexander Rd. was the main
route to the gold fields of Castlemaine (formerly Mt. Alexander),
Ballarat and Bendigo. Such was the nature of the hysteria
created by the promise of instant wealth from gold that when some small
nuggets of gold were discovered on Mount Alexander Road it wasn't long
before hopeful miners were digging up the road in search
of more nuggets. It was later discovered that the nuggets had fallen
from a bullion wagon travelling from the gold fields. |
| The Burke and Wills expedition travelled from Melbourne along
Mt. Alexander Road and Bulla Road in August, 1860. They passed Woodland
Street on the morning of the second day of their
expedition. The expedition had been forced to camp the first night near
Queens Park, Moonee Ponds as they had been delayed in their departure
by too many speeches. |
| In 1918, William F. Salmon of "Roseneath" (south of Woodland
St.) presented Salmon Reserve, the park land along 5 Mile Creek, to
Council. |
| The Strathmore Branch of the State Savings Bank first opened in
Napier Street in 1956. It move to new premises at 337 Napier Street
(next to the old site) in November 1962. Now a Bendigo Bank. |
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