Yallourn North, Victoria
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Homes on the undulating street of Marshall Street with a view of Harmony Hills in the background.
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| Coordinates | 38°10′S 146°22′E / 38.167°S 146.367°ECoordinates: 38°10′S 146°22′E / 38.167°S 146.367°E | ||||||||||||
| Population | 1,493 (2011 census) | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1917 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3825 | ||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | City of Latrobe | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Morwell | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | McMillan | ||||||||||||
| Website | Yallourn North | ||||||||||||
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Yallourn North is a small country town in the City of Latrobe, Victoria, Australia. It is approximately eight kilometres north-east of Moe, and 146 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. Prior to 1947 Yallourn North was known as "Brown Coal Mine".
The Post Office opened on 3 September 1917 as Brown Coal Mine and was renamed Yallourn North in 1947.
This tiny hilltop town contains many churches, including the only Serbian Orthodox Church and Mosque in the region. Sports available are Australian rules football, cricket, lawn bowls and carpet bowls, netball and angling. There is a Social Golf Club, and pistol club. The town has an Australian Rules football team, Yallourn-Yallourn North, which competes in the Mid Gippsland Football League.
Yallourn North owes its origins to the discovery of brown coal in the Morwell area of Gippsland, in eastern Victoria. Initially private enterprise unsuccessfully attempted to profit from the large quantity of coal that was accessible close to the surface. The Victorian Mines Department took over the abandoned mine in 1917, after protected strikes by coal miners in New South Wales threatened Victoria's electricity Supply.
In 1917 the need for a school became evident. W. H. Dooley reported that a school should be formed, but not a costly one. The address of the school was given as "Great Morwell Coal Mine" and a large marquee was initially used as the school building. The school was allocated the temporary number 3967, which is still in use today. After a tear in the marquee during a storm in December 1918, the school was temporarily relocated to Bevis's Pioneer Boarding House until a new structure could be built on the old site. Over the years demand grew, as did the space required. The current school building was constructed in the late 1960s.
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