Sedgwick, Victoria

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Sedgwick
Victoria
Sedgwick is located in City of Bendigo
Sedgwick
Sedgwick
Coordinates36°52′17″S 144°18′55″E / 36.87139°S 144.31528°E / -36.87139; 144.31528Coordinates: 36°52′17″S 144°18′55″E / 36.87139°S 144.31528°E / -36.87139; 144.31528
Population546 (2016 census)[1]
Established1854
Postcode(s)3551
LGA(s)City of Greater Bendigo
State electorate(s)Bendigo East
Federal division(s)Bendigo

Sedgwick is a locality in Central Victoria, Australia. It is located in the City of Greater Bendigo.

Facilities include a public hall and CFA Rural fire station. There are no stores or petrol stations. The hall opened in 1958.

Sedgwick Section of the Bendigo to Malmsbury Channel

It was named Upper Emu Creek until 1901 when it was renamed as Sedgwick after British geologist Adam Sedgwick.[2] Emu Creek is a suburb North East of Sedgwick.

History[]

The First Freehold land was granted in 1854. In 1863 The Great Eastern Mine was founded in Sedgwick. Many of the miners lived in the area around the mine so there was a hotel called the Great Eastern and a store. It was the only mine in the district. A Methodist chapel opened on the 9th of April 1873 and was in use until 1920. In 1877 a water channel running from Malmsbury to Bendigo was completed, running through the southern and western sides of Sedgwick it still exists today. [3]

In a public meeting in 1942, it was proposed that a bush fire brigade should be formed. The last major bush fire to burn through Sedgwick was in 1944 and burnt from Ravenswood to near Kyneton however they still have fought many smaller fires in Sedgwick and numerous larger fires in places like Mt Macedon and Maryborough. [4]

References[]

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Sedgwick (State Suburb)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 4 May 2017. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Administrator. "Chronology of Sedgwick". Sedgwick Connect. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  3. ^ Shaw, Gwen. "Sedgwick Reflections of our past" (PDF). Sedgwick Connect. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  4. ^ http://sedgwickcommunity.org.au/portfolio/history/sedgwick-fire-brigade-history/

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