Aerial view - Historic images - Walkaround : Powelltown Victoria Australia

Powelltown is in the Mountain Ash timber country of Victoria Australia and 85km (52mi) east of State capital Melbourne, and 15km (9mi) south-east of Yarra Junction.
The first settlement was established in 1901 when H Blake founded the first timber mill known as Blake's Mill; later a larger mill was constructed and completed in 1913 by the Victorian Powell Wood Processing Company to harvest hardwood mountain ash in the Little Yarra Valley to fill its new government contracts. The Post Office opened around 1904, as Blake's, and the settlement was renamed Powelltown in 1912.
Credits and references:
State Library - Victoria www.slv.vic.gov.au/
Photographers and contributors;
Roberts, A. S
Sims, Percy Robert (1898 - 1966)
Victoria. Department of Crown Lands and Survey
Rose Stereograph Co.
Dunstan, Roy
Victorian Railways
Victorian Places - www.victorianplaces.com.au/po...
Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powellt...
Department of the Environment trove.nla.gov.au/work/1408323...
National Archives of Australia
1. recordsearch.naa.gov.au/Searc...
2. nla.gov.au/nla.obj-155398877/...
Churches Australia
www.churchesaustralia.org/lis...
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[@shaneconnors757]

FANTASTIC!....Thank you for visiting my home town

[@urbanaerialexplorer1885]

Great little town with an amazing footy field and club house !

[@coevicman3685]

Thank you great video. Its the home town of The Biodynamic Research Institute from which Alex Podolinsky spread the Australian Bio-Dynamic Method since 1950's to farmers + gardners around Australia and the world. Also the central office for Biodynamic Marketing that supports Biodynamic and Organic producers as the wholesaler/distributor.

[@urbanaerialexplorer1885]

holy moly - the hometown of organic sustainable farming - wow !

[@adrianfoxsommer]

what an excellent production, well done. On behalf of my Dad please stop in to the sawmill next time you are travelling through he will put the kettle on and loves to talk history.

[@urbanaerialexplorer1885]

Glad you enjoyed it ... Some of these smaller towns need a boost with tourism and their history exposed to a new generation or those that like to explore what the pioneers got upto instead of just gold !

[@urbanaerialexplorer1885]

All you need is a giant lumberjack leaning on an axe as a tourist attraction - I wonder if you can get a government ''arts / pioneering"' grant !

[@vsvnrg3263]

12:20, keeping the timber wet is also to minimise shrinkage, which causes splitting, before the timber is cut.

[@urbanaerialexplorer1885]

thanks - I wasn't sure if that was the case and initially thought timber gets cut quickly and not stored for prolonged periods

[@vsvnrg3263]

@@urbanaerialexplorer1885 , yes, normally they rush timber through the saw. its easier on the saw blades too. timber for power poles doesnt get cut.

[@romemancer7905]

I remember years ago when they were were sealing the road up there they struck giant granite boulders they had to dig out of the road...some as big as houses !!!

[@spacedudey2k]

Fought the Ash Wednesday bushfires here in 1983 when I was in the navy.

[@urbanaerialexplorer1885]

wow ... I'm sure your efforts didn't go unrewarded or unappreciated; thank-you and those that fight any bushfire.