Tallarook, Victoria

Infobox Australian Place | type = town
name = Tallarook
state = vic


caption = Tallarook Hotel
lga = Shire of Mitchell
postcode = 3659
est =
pop = 288
pop_footnotes =
elevation=
maxtemp =
mintemp =
rainfall =
stategov = Seymour
fedgov = McEwen
dist1 = 102
dir1 = N
location1= Melbourne
dist2 = 91
dir2 = S
location2= Shepparton
dist3 = 13
dir3 = SW
location3= Seymour
near-nw = Hilldene
near-n = Seymour
near-ne = Whiteheads Creek
near-w = Sugarloaf Creek
near-e = Whiteheads Creek
near-sw = Broadford
near-s = Broadford
near-se = Strath Creek

Tallarook is a town in Victoria, Australia located on the Hume Highway, 102 kilometres north of the state capital, Melbourne. The town is in the Shire of Mitchell Local Government area. At the 2006 census, Tallarook had a population of 258.Census 2006 AUS|id=UCL251400|name=Tallarook (L) (Urban Centre/Locality)|accessdate=2007-10-25|quick=on]

Tallarook Post Office opened on 1 April 1861. Citation
last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | accessdate = 2008-04-11 ]

The town is known in Australia for the colloquialism, "Things are crook in Tallarook", believed to date to the Great Depression and unemployed travellers seeking work.cite web
last = Moore
first = Bruce
url = http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/pubs/ozwords/October_2003/ftc.html
title = From The Centre - October 2003
publisher = The Australian National Dictionary Centre
accessdate = 2007-07-15]

The main North East railway opened though the town in 1872 along with the local railway station, and a branch railway to Mansfield was started in 1883, extended to Mansfield in 1891, and Alexandra in 1909, before being closed on November 18, 1978.cite journal | year = 1990 | month = March | title = Tracks Across the State | author = Sid Brown | journal = Newsrail | publisher = Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division) | pages = pages 71-76 ]

The industrialist Essington Lewis settled near Tallarook on his property, "Landscape" in his later years until his death in 1961.cite web
last = Blainey
first = Geoffrey
authorlink = Geoffrey Blainey
coauthors = Smith, Ann G.
url = http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100084b.htm
title = Lewis, Essington (1881 - 1961)
work = Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online edition
publisher = Australian National University
accessdate = 2007-05-21]

References

External links

* http://www.tallarook.info/