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It was recently announced that the historic section of Leongatha Secondary College was placed on the Victorian State Heritage Register. The listing refers to the Sloyd Room, built in 1913 as a woodwork room, the 1934 building, which replaced a building constructed in 1912 and destroyed by fire in 1933, the Jubilee Park planted in 1937 to commemorate the school’s 25th anniversary and a famous oak tree planted in 1912. (more…)
Please join the South Gippsland Historical Societies at their conference on Saturday, February 23, 2008, at Coal Creek, Korumburra - 10am to 4pm.
Come and learn more about South Gippsland’s unique history.
The South Gippsland Historical Network, together with the Leongatha Historical Society, will be running a history conference at Coal Creek, Korumburra.
The theme of the conference is “No History, No Culture”, and the speakers will be telling those present about a number of fascinating topics related to the development of South Gippsland and its special cultural identity. (more…)
South Gippsland has very little in the way of remnant vegetation due to the effects of fire and farming, but efforts are being made to regrow a diversity of indigenous plants through Landcare and other revegetation programs.
Native plants specialist, Ian Starkey, told the Leongatha and District Historical Society’s September meeting that remaining stands of remnant vegetation were being well looked after, but the efforts of farmers through Landcare and similar programs were seeing sensitive areas, such as river banks, revitalised under new plantings of native vegetation.
