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Maryknoll is a town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, located north-east of Pakenham in the Shire of Cardinia. It was one of the youngest townships to develop in the former Shire of Berwick. At the 2006 census, Maryknoll had a population of 1,501.[1]
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In 1950, society in Victoria was still recovering from World War II - not just the returned soldiers and their families, but migrants from Eastern Europe who had lived and lost through the war. Fathers Simon Heaven a Jack Rouse of the Catholic Church envisaged a new 600-acre (2.4 km²) settlement in West Gippsland where people could heal physically and emotionally. The name Maryknoll replaced the original name of St Mary's in 1955. The original settlement consisted of about 30 families.
By the 1970s, land in the area was being opened up for wider settlement.
Dan Mackinnon was the first settler to come here, apart from the founder of the land.
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