Smeaton Vic
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Prior to white settlement the area was inhabited by the Wemba-Wemba people. * Prior to white settlement the area was inhabited by the Dja dja warrung Aboriginal people.
John Hepburn settled in the area in 1838. He built one of the state's earliest substantial country homes At Smeaton Hill Run.
By the 1840s Hepburn had built a flour mill near his property.
Smeaton House was built in 1849.
Some gold was found in the area in the early 1850s but supplying the miners of the district proved more profitable.
By 1860 the town had two schools and an agricultural society.
A post office was opened in 1860.
A local primary school was opened in 1861.
A flour mill was built in the town in 1862.
In 1902 a new school was built in the town.
In 1922 the local showground was abandoned.
The Smeaton Flour Mill was closed down in 1957.
By 2013 the school only had 12 students. It closed the next year.
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