Carapook & "Muntham" Pioneers & Settlers

Carapook, Muntham, Bruk Bruk & Beerik are neighbouring parishes in South-Western Victoria, Australia.

Carapook is also a small settlement on Sawyers Creek, now called MacPherson Creek, surrounded by rolling hills, between Casterton and Coleraine in south western Victoria. Originally a part of the "Muntham" Pastoral Run settled by the HENTY brothers in 1837, it is defined by the parishes of Bruk Bruk, Beerik, Carapook & Muntham.

Carapook By The McPherson Creek

"Muntham" Pastoral Run (1837) Bruk Bruk Landholders Carapook Landholders Ratepayers (1875) Drowning Tragedy (1870) School Petition (1875) Fire at Carapook (1900) Fire at Carapook (1919) Community Hall Cricket Teams (1930s) Football Team (1921)

BURCHELL, Henry FETHERSTONHAUGH, Cuthbert HART, James JELBART (storekeeper) LEY, Donald Alexander MALLETT, James (1845) McDONALD, Major Norman O'BREE, Henry (1860s) PENROSE "Rosedale" POVEY, Thomas & Rachel

Area Map ca 1990 Photographs Presbyterian Church School Football 1950 School Pupils 1940 School Pupils 1957

SS Carapook & Bruk Bruk SS 2112 Muntham SS 2112 Muntham Picnic 1914 SS 4668 Wando Heights Soldier Settlement WW1/2 Honour Rolls WW2 Ambulance WW1 Muntham Hon. Roll WW2 Muntham Hon. Roll

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