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Peechelba
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| Population: | 116[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3678 | ||||||||||||
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| State District: | Murray Valley | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Indi | ||||||||||||
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Peechelba is a small town in north eastern Victoria , Australia. The town is located in the Rural City of Wangaratta and the Shire of Moira Local Government Area between Wangaratta and Yarrawonga and 277 kilometres (172 mi) north west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2006 census, Peechelba and the surrounding area had a population of 116.[1]
The town is home to a nature reserve and is not far from the Ovens River.
Peechelba Post Office opened on 2 September 1880 to the north of the township now, and was renamed Bundalong South in 1883 when a new Peechelba office opened. This closed in 1889. In 1890 Peechelba Town office opened, closing in 1969.[2]
The bushranger Daniel Morgan (Mad Dog Morgan) bailed-up the occupants at Peechelba Station on the eveing of 8 April 1865. Alerted by a nursemaid , Alice Macdonald, police soon surrounded the main homestead. Jack Quinlan, a stockman at the station, shot and fatally wounded Morgan. Morgan died at about 1.45 p.m. on 9 April 1865. Locks were cut from his hair, his body was publicly displayed at Wangaratta, his beard was flayed from his face as a souvenir and his head severed, to be forwarded to the professor of anatomy at the University of Melbourne. He was buried on 14 April in Wangaratta cemetery.
Books Tom Prior, Bill Wannan, H. Nunn, A Pictorial History of Bushrangers, Hamlyn, Sydney, 1968.
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