Pyalong

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2012}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = town | name = Pyalong | state = vic | image = PyalongHotel2010.JPG | caption = Pyalong Hotel | image_alt = | use_lga_map = yes | relief = | coordinates = {{coord|37|07|0|S|144|51|0|E|display=inline,title}} | pushpin_label_position = right | map_alt = | pop = 772 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}} | pop_footnotes = <ref name="ABS"/> | poprank = | density = | density_footnotes = | established = | established_footnotes = | abolished = | gazetted = | postcode = 3521 | elevation = | elevation_footnotes = | area = | area_footnotes = | timezone = | utc = | timezone-dst = | utc-dst = | dist1 = 90 | dir1 = N | location1 = Melbourne | dist2 = 73 | dir2 = SE | location2 = Bendigo | dist3 = 24 | dir3 = N | location3 = [[Kilmore, Victoria|Kilmore]] | lga = Shire of Mitchell | region = [[Hume (region)|Hume]] | county = | stategov = [[Electoral district of Euroa|Euroa]] | fedgov = [[Division of Bendigo|Bendigo]] | url = | maxtemp = | maxtemp_footnotes = | mintemp = | mintemp_footnotes = | rainfall = | rainfall_footnotes = | near-n = [[Tooborac]] | near-ne = [[Glenaroua, Victoria|Glenaroua]] | near-e = [[Glenaroua, Victoria|Glenaroua]] | near-se = [[Glenaroua, Victoria|Glenaroua]] | near-s = [[Willowmavin, Victoria|Willowmavin]] | near-sw = [[Lancefield, Victoria|Lancefield]] | near-w = [[Benloch, Victoria|Benloch]] | near-nw = [[Tooborac]] | near = | footnotes = }} '''Pyalong''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|p|aɪ|.|əl|ɒ|ŋ}} is a town in central [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]]. The town is located on the [[Northern Highway, Victoria|Northern Highway]], in the [[Shire of Mitchell]] [[Local government in Australia|local government area]], {{convert|90|km|mi}} from the state capital, [[Melbourne]]. At the {{CensusAU|2021}}, Pyalong had a population of 772.<ref name="ABS">{{Census 2021 AUS|id=SAL22129|name=Pyalong (Suburb and Locality)|accessdate=17 July 2024|quick=on}}</ref>

The [[traditional owners]] of Pyalong are the [[Taungurung]] people, a part of the [[Kulin Nation|Kulin]] nation that inhabited a large portion of central Victoria including Port Phillip Bay and its surrounds.

The first Europeans to settle in the area were Captain George Brunswick Smyth and Lieutenant Alfred Miller Mundy who were operating the Pyalong station by August 1838, and William Hamilton who occupied the adjacent Glenaroua run at the same time.<ref>Williams, Martin. Charles Bonney and the fertile Kilmore Plains, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 90, No. 1, June 2019, p. 112.</ref> They were followed by Alexander Mollison who initially took up the Coliban station in December 1838 then added the ''Pyalong'' station lease in 1839.<ref name="Trinity">{{cite web | url = http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/library/address.shtml | title = THE MOLLISONS AND THEIR LIBRARY | work = Trinity College Library | publisher = [[Trinity College (University of Melbourne)]] | accessdate = 2007-06-04 }}</ref><ref>Daley, Charles, Early Squatting Days, From the papers of the late A. F. Mollison, The Victorian Historical Magazine, Issue 33. Vol. IX. July, 1922. No. 1. p10</ref> The town itself was surveyed and proclaimed in 1854,<ref name="Ryan">{{cite web | last = Pidgeon | first = Elizabeth | url = http://www.users.bigpond.com/peter_pidgeon/ryan_family.htm#_ednref2 | title = The Ryan Family: Pioneers of Pyalong | accessdate = 2007-06-04}}</ref> and was sufficiently populated for the Post Office to open on 1 November 1858.<ref name = "a">{{Cite web | 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 }}</ref>

Pyalong was connected by rail in 1890 with a station on the [[Heathcote railway line]]. The line was closed in 1968.<ref>'''''The Heathcote Junction to Bendigo and Associated Railways''''' Turton, Keith [[Australian Railway History|Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin]], April, 1970 pp. 69–88</ref> It retains a daily V/Line coach service to [[Kilmore, Victoria|Kilmore]], [[Wallan]] and Melbourne.

Until 1994 the town was the seat of the [[Shire of Pyalong]], then Victoria's smallest municipality by population.

Golfers play at the course of the Pyalong Golf Club on the Northern Highway.<ref name = "golf">{{Cite web | author= Golf Select | title = Pyalong | url = http://www.golfselect.com.au/armchair/courseView.aspx?course_id=1067 | accessdate = 2009-05-11 }}</ref>

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[[Category:Towns in Victoria (state)]] [[Category:Shire of Mitchell]]