Yarram, Victoria

Yarram is a city in southern Gippsland in Victoria, Australia. The Aboriginal term ' Yarram Yarram ' probably means " much water ", but you do not know which comes from tribal language of this expression. The city is located in the Local Government Area Wellington Shire and in the last census in 2006 a population of 2106 was noted, which has remained almost the same over the last few decades. The city is a sub- center for the surrounding agricultural district and has a very engaged population that is particularly interested in sports. Yarram is located about an hour's drive from Wilsons Promontory away. Nearby are the towns of Welshpool, Alberton and Foster are.

History

The former owners of the land on which Yarram is today, were the Kurnai, the five major clans or language groups existed. The Kurnai resisted the conquest by European immigrants and were niedergemetztelt in the sequence.

Due to its location near one of the first trading posts in Victoria, Port Albert, the city grew rapidly after the settlement of the first immigrants, because it was in the midst of a rich farm country, the dairy products delivered to all of Australia, and also because of the wood industry.

In 1841 the site, originally a low-lying swamp thing chosen by a Scottish clan leader, Aeneas Ronaldson MacDonnell, who, with his fellow Scots, attempted to set up a feudal- style court. However, de experiment folded and he subsequently moved to New Zealand. (Eng. 1841 the area was originally a low-lying marshland, by the Board of the Scottish clans, Aeneas Ronaldson McDonald, (as settlement land ) has been selected and you wanted to build a royal household in feudal style But the experiment failed and he moved for this reason. to New Zealand. )

The first post office opened on February 1, 1861 under the name ' Yarram Yarram ' and in 1925 renamed ' Yarram '. The railway connection came in 1921 and in October 1987 the line between Welshpool and Leongatha was abandoned.

Yarram today

Yarram is known for the nearby Ninety Mile Beach, Port Albert and classical architecture in its main street, especially at the Regent Theatre, today. There is a well-known bakery, which has won the Great Australian Meat Pie Competition for many years.

In the city there is a football club which plays in the Alberton Football League. In Yarram many former football players are at home, for example, Royce Vardy and Anthony Banik (Richmond Tigers ) and Andrew Dunkley ( Sydney Swans ).

Golfers playing on the course of the Yarram Golf Club at the Old Sale Road.

Each year in August in Yarram Eisteddfod held one in which the artistic talents of the area can prove in the disciplines of music, speech and drama.