When I first saw Fawkner Memorial Park, I had just moved to Melbourne, and was exploring. I was not expecting to see a cemetery when I alighted at Fawkner station. But, as anyone who has left the train on the Upfield-bound side of the station knows, the huge cemetery fills your vision, with headstones and […]
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Fawkner
In the late 1830s squatters pastured flocks of sheep from New South Wales and Van Diemens Land (Tasmania). Land was rented to squatters for ten pounds per year, and in the 1840s they could buy up to 640 acres where homesteads were established. John Pascoe Fawkner John Pascoe Fawkner was an early settler in the […]