Glenrowan, Victoria

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Glenrowan Victoria
Glenrowan's most famous landmark, a huge statue of Ned Kelly, here seen at night.
Population:	952 (2006)^[1]
Postcode:	3675
Location:	236 km (147 mi) NE of Melbourne 88 km (55 mi) SW of Wodonga 15 km (9 mi) SW of Wangaratta 26 km (16 mi) NE of Benalla
LGA:	Rural City of Wangaratta
State District:	Benalla
Federal Division:	Indi

Glenrowan is a small town located in the Wangaratta Local Government Area of Victoria, Australia. It is 184 kilometers north-east of Melbourne and 14 kilometres from Wangaratta and located near the Warby Ranges and Mt. Glenrowan. At the 2006 census, Glenrowan had a population of 952.

Glenrowan was named after farmers James and George Rowan who ran farms in the area between 1846 and 1858. It is famous for the bushranger Ned Kelly, who made his last stand and was eventually captured there in 1880 after a siege and shootout with police.

Glenrowan is a popular rest point for those travelling on the Hume Freeway. In the township of Glenrowan, off the highway, tourists can rest, walk and examine the famous Kelly siege sites.

1 Works on the area and Ned Kelly
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Works on the area and Ned Kelly

[edit] Books

Though a very small locality many books on the Kelly Gang's final siege at Glenrown exist. Though many works discuss land selection, social conflict etc, they all have many details, photos, maps, sketches and facts about 1880 Glenrowan, its railway, the two hotels, and planned train derailment.

Kenneally, J. J. The Inner History of the Kelly Gang, 1929 (many reprints available- this was a watershed pro-Kelly work) shows pictures of Glenrowan during the 1880s
Brown, Max. Australian Son, Georgian House, Melbourne, 1948 (plus subsequent reprints) shows pictures of Glenrowan in the 1940s
Carey, Peter, True History of the Kelly Gang, Vintage, 2001
Cave, Colin (ed.) Ned Kelly Man and Myth, Cassel Nth Melbourne, 1963. (an important watershed work in lifting the Kelly story into the academic arena)
Jones, Ian. Ned Kelly: A Short Life, Lothian, Port Melbourne, 1995. (a comprehensive work including sketches of Glenrowan and the Kelly siege)
Prior,Tom. et al, A Pictorial History of Bushrangers, Paul Hamlyn, Sydney, 1968. (many photos of Glenrowan in 1880 taken during and after the Kelly siege at the hotel)
Molitorisz, Sacha. The Romance of Robbery: Australian Bushrangers, Murray David, French Forest, 1998, ISBN1 876411015 (photos and contemporary drawings of Ned Kelly at Glenrowan)
McQuilton, John. The Kelly Outbreak 1878-1880, Melbourne University Press, 1979. (a watershed academic work which discusses land selection in the vicinity of Glenrowan)
Phillips, John, The Trial of Ned Kelly, The Law Book Company, Nth Ryde, 1987.
Clune, Frank. The Kelly Hunters, 1954.
Osborne, Charles. Ned Kelly, Sphere Books, London, 1970.
Sadlier, John, Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer, (1913)Penguin Colonial Facsimiles Ringwood, 1973. (autobiography from a Kelly Gang police pursuer and conflicts in the Glenrowan locale)