Historical information

The settlement is Bulla township, which attracted Europeans in the 1840s. The bluestone building on the RHS was one of the early hotels in the town but was the Post Office and store until it was destroyed by fire in the 1980s. The school is visible behind a clump of trees in the valley. The road in the foreground is the former Bulla Road, which in the 1850s carried traffic to the Bendigo goldfields. The Creek is the Deep Creek which becomes the Maribyrnong River further downstream. In the early days of European settlement, minerals were obtained in the valley at Bulla. Today Felspar and Quartz Streets bear evidence of this early industry in the town.






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Physical description

A non-digital old black and white scanned photograph of a small country settlement, with 6 buildings, in a valley. the surrounding hills are bare with very little tree growth. A road way is in the foreground and a small creek is in the middle distance.