Framlingham, Victoria
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Framlingham Victoria |
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Kaawirn Kuunawarn (Hissing Swan), also known as King David, Chief of the Kirrae Wuurong, who lived in Framlingham from 1865 until his death in 1889.
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 Framlingham
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| Coordinates | 38°14′0″S 142°42′0″E / 38.23333°S 142.70000°ECoordinates: 38°14′0″S 142°42′0″E / 38.23333°S 142.70000°E |
| Postcode(s) | 3265 |
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| LGA(s) | Shire of Moyne |
| State electorate(s) | Polwarth |
| Federal Division(s) | Wannon |
Framlingham is a rural township in the Western District of Victoria, Australia, about 24 km north-east of Warrnambool (a small city on the south-west coast of the state). With settlement beginning in the 1840s, the following decades saw a general store, post office, hotel, school and Presbyterian church established in Framlingham. The township still boasts a public reserve and a hall, but the school, established in 1872, was closed in 1993. An Aboriginal reserve was established by the Board for the Protection of Aborigines between Purnim and Framlingham in 1861. It was located beside the Hopkins River in the territory of the semi-nomadic Kirrae Wuurong (Blood Tip Tribe) people, not far from the boundary with the Gunditjmara. The reserve operated until 1916, with the Aboriginal community continuing to the present.
The Church of England in Warnambool formed the Anglican mission in 1861, which requested establishment of the Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve. The reserve was occupied in 1865 by many of the surviving members of the Kirrae Wuurong clans, who originally inhabited the area between Mount Emu Creek and the Hopkins River, and much of whose language was recorded by a Scottish squatter, James Dawson. Members of the Djargurd Wurrung from the Camperdown area and Gunditjmara people from Warrnambool were also relocated to Framlingham, but Gunditjmara from Portland and Lake Condah refused to settle here due to tension with the other clans, leading to the establishment of Lake Condah reserve in 1869.
In 1867 the reserve was closed by the Central Board appointed by the Government of Victoria and attempts were made to relocate the residents to Lake Condah Mission but in September 1868 the Kirrae Wuurong won the re-establishment of the reserve. Residents of Warrnambool campaigned from 1877 to 1890 to close the reserve and turn it into an experimental agricultural farm, and in 1894 the reserve was reduced to 222 hectares (2.22 km2) and the majority of the land given to the Council of Agricultural Education. However, the agricultural farm plans never eventuated, with this land becoming the Framlingham Forest.
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