Yackandandah is a small tourist town in northeast Victoria, Australia. It is near the industrial towns of Wodonga and Albury, and is close to the tourist town of Beechworth. At the 2006 census, Yackandandah had a population of 2103. VIC redirects here. ... Australian postcodes have four digits; envelopes for posting from Australia reflect this. ... “km” redirects here. ... “Miles” redirects here. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... Wodonga () is a small city on the Victorian side of the border with New South Wales, 300 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, Australia. ... Municipalities of Greater Melbourne City of Banyule City of Bayside City of Boroondara City of Brimbank Shire of Cardinia City of Casey City of Darebin City of Frankston City of Glen Eira City of Greater Dandenong City of Hobsons Bay City of Hume City of Kingston City of Knox City... Indigo Shire is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. ... State Electoral District is a term used to refer to a voting area within Australian states. ... The Electoral district of Benambra is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. ... The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. ... The Division of Indi is an electoral division in the Australian House of Representatives. ... Motto: Peace and Prosperity Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Governor HE Mr John Landy Premier Steve Bracks (ALP) Area 237,629 km² (6th)  - Land 227,416 km²  - Water 10,213 km² (4. ... Wodonga () is a small city on the Victorian side of the border with New South Wales, 300 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, Australia. ... Albury is a city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the Northern side of the Murray River. ... Beechworth () is a well-preserved historical town located in the north-east of Victoria, Australia, famous for its major growth during the gold rush days of the mid-1850s. ... The Australian census is run by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. ...

It is a former gold mining centre known for it alluvial wet mining techniques. The area is now a dairy farming and forestry and has numerous bed and breakfast lodges, which allows its many visitors to enjoy the peace and tranquility of the district's forest and mountains. It is affectionately known as 'Yack'. The commercial centre of the town, known as the Yackandandah Conservation Area, is recorded on the Register of the National Estate. Gold mining consists of the processes and techniques employed in the removal of gold from the ground. ... Dairy farming is a class of agricultural, or more properly, an animal husbandry enterprise, raising female cattle, goats, or other lactating animals for long-term production of milk, which may be either processed on-site or transported to a dairy factory for processing and eventual retail sale. ... A decidous beech forest in Slovenia. ... The Register of the National Estate is a listing of natural and cultural heritage places in Australia. ...

A railway once linked Yackandandah to Beechworth which opened in 1891. The route to Woorragee and from there to Yackandandah was steep. Trains descending the last gradient into Yackandandah would halt,(near the now Yackandandah turnoff, from the Beechworth-Wodonga Road) the guard would apply hand-brakes to carriages and wagons. The last train on the Yackandandah-Beechworth line was in July 1954. (Larsen, MayDay Hills) Though the line was torn up, many sections of the original right of way are visible from the roadway between Beechworth and Yack.

Used for the filming of the 2003 film, Strange Bedfellows, (starring Michael Caton and Paul Hogan), Yackandandah is also home to the annual Yackandandah Folk Festival attracting local, Australian and international artists. Like its larger neighbour, Yackandandah promotes itself as a tourist destination on the basis of its gold mining history, and features a period streetscape and an increasing number of antique shops. Strange Bedfellows is an episode from the seventh season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the third of the ten final chapters. ... Michael Caton (born 1943 in Queensland, Australia) is an actor best known for playing Darryl Kerrigan from 1997s low budget hit The Castle. ... Paul Hogan starring as Crocodile Dundee. ...

Two historic buildings, the 146-year-old museum (formerly the Bank of Victoria) and an adjacent timber store ("Rainbow Crystal"), were destroyed by a fire in the early morning of December 21, 2006. A real estate agency was also severely damaged.

History Books on the area

• O'Brien, Antony. Shenanigans on the Ovens goldfields: The 1859 election, Artillery Publishing, Hartwell, 2005.
• Larsen, Wal. The Mayday Hills Railway, Wal Larsen, Bright, 1976.

References

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External links

• http://www.uniqueyackandandah.com.au - The Official Yackandandah & District Tourism Assocciation Web Site
• Tourism information
• Australian Travel Guide entry
• Yackandandah Folk Festival home page.
• yackandandah.com
• http://www.springmigration.com.au - Festival for Yackandandah website
• http://www.yackandandah.au.com - Informative website for Yackandandah and includes all public facilities also accommodation
• "Historic buildings razed in blaze", The Age, December 21, 2006.

Coordinates: 36°18′S 146°50′E / -36.3, 146.833 Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...