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Elphinstone, Shire of Mount Alexander, Victoria, Australia

Postcode: 3448
Description: Farming district
Location: 11km east of Castlemaine
Named: To honour Baron Montstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay and Madras during Indian mutiny 1857-59. Formerly known as Sawpit Gully because pit-sawyers worked there prior to goldrush to Mount Alexander. (Blake)

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Castlemaine Historical Society

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