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From: "Ian Foster" <>
Subject: Re: [AVNE] Buckland Goldfields
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 07:17:21 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20070818070155.DB0E6136194@mail.netspace.net.au>


Thanks Mike,

The commercial links back then are a bit of a puzzle sometimes.

ian


>From: "Michael Skurrie" <>
>Reply-To:
>To: <>
>Subject: Re: [AVNE] Buckland Goldfields
>Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:01:58 +1000
>
>Hi Ian,
>
>Only one Post office named Buckland has ever existed in Victoria. 19km WSW
>of Bright. Opened there on 1.4.1856 and closed on 21.2.1923.
>
>Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:
>[mailto:] On Behalf Of Ian Foster
>Sent: Saturday, 18 August 2007 7:20 AM
>To:
>Subject: [AVNE] Buckland Goldfields
>
>I am rather puzzled by references to this place and particularly its
>relationship to Yackandandah and Beechworth. How can both these
>towns be seen as the main regional cent for Buckland when it is so
>far away and many valleys in between. Was there another Buckland in
>the 1860s or is the current Buckland (not far from Mt Buffalo) the
>only area of that name that has ever existed?
>
>My Great great Grandfather was a baker at Buckland.
>
>Ian
>
>
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