Stores
Nothing was more important to a pioneer community than its store. Once a settlement of any size was established some one started a store. The store provided food stuffs such as flour, sugar, tea and salted meat, tools, building materials, kerosene and basic clothing. The better the transport the better the supplies. As a result early South Gippsland stores were very basic in the early days before the railway in 1891.
Bellingham’s butcher shop, Leongatha.
The Buffalo Store, a typical South Gippsland general store.
Leongatha's Roughead Street in 1890, featuring cattle yards and two stores.
