Smeaton, Victoria

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Smeaton Victoria
Postcode:	3364
Location:	132 km from Melbourne 32 km from Ballarat 14 km from Creswick
LGA:	Hepburn Shire
Federal Division:	Ballarat

Smeaton is a small rural town in the state of Victoria, Australia near the town of Creswick, The town was 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.^[1]

Hepburn became a very high profile figure in the district, promoted gold mines and became a Justice of the Peace before he died in 1860.^{[citation needed]}