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Watsons Creek is a bounded locality in Victoria , Australia , 31 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District , located within the Shire of Nillumbik local government area . Watsons Creek recorded a population of 58 at the 2021 census .
Watsons Creek lies to the north and west of Eltham-Yarra Glen Road.
History [ edit ]
Watsons Creek was named after Sandy Watson, who farmed fat cattle and sold butter and meat to the miners on the One Tree Hill, Happy Valley and Queenstown diggings.[2]
A Watsons Creek Post Office was open in 1903 and 1904. Watson's Post Office opened on 11 September 1911, was renamed Chiselhurst later that year and closed in 1923.[3]
See also [ edit ]
Shire of Eltham – Watsons Creek was previously within this former local government area.
References [ edit ]
^ Phoenix Auctions History. "Post Office List" . Retrieved 10 April 2021 .
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