This tour will introduce you to early Gippsland businesses, services and every day life through time.
Your tour guide will show you how townspeople accessed services in the late 1800s, houses and farm equipment ordered via catalogues, boots made from scratch to sending a telegram. Follow the shift in communication, health care, law and fashion and find out what stayed the same and what moved on. Tours will be on the hour between 10am and 2pm.
The 8 acres of parkland welcomes you to explore the rest of our history after your tour, the cafe on-site and the park is open until 4pm.
Join us for a fun and welcoming Pop-Up Playgroup for children aged 0–5 years and their carers.
Play, explore, and connect with other local families in a relaxed and inclusive space!
No RSVP or cost associated.
Please note: The event will be cancelled in the event of rain.
Join us for a fun and welcoming Pop-Up Playgroup for children aged 0–5 years and their carers. Play, explore, and connect with other local families in a relaxed and inclusive space!
Please note: The event will be cancelled in the event of rain.
Free event!
Join the Gippsland Plains Rail Trail committee of management at the launch of the three Railway Dog sculptures along the trail.
All welcome, including dogs (on a lead).
With the uncovering of the story of the Railway Dog via the Gippsland History group, networks soon got together to initiate the creative project, with the committee receiving a generous grant from Alinta Loy Yang B power station and the contracting of Jo Caminiti, a local Cowwarr-based artist to commission the three Railway Dog sculptures.
The Story of the Railway Dog
In the 1930s, a female red kelpie known as the Railway Dog adopted the Traralgon rail crew and was a “confirmed tourist” travelling the trains around Gippsland.
In December 1935, the Railway Dog made the front page of the Melbourne Herald “Gippsland’s Wonder Dog Believes in Two Means of Locomotion” which told the story of her missing the Stratford train then giving chase for 20 miles from Traralgon to Cowwarr.
Come along and celebrate the epic adventures of a courageous and much loved local legend.
