Smeaton

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Smeaton, a small rural town near Creswick, Victoria, Australia, founded by english settler Captain John Hepburn who was a colonial squatter in the 1840s. Hepburn held under Government licence about 20,000 acres for his sheep and cattle run which he drove overland from Sydney, he built Smeaton House in 1849 with the assistance of british colonial migrants. Hepburn becam a very high profile figure in the district, promoted gold mines and becam a Justice of Peace before he died in 1860.

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