Below is a list of just some of the small schools which no longer exist in the Central Highlands area
Black Lead 1857-1876
located in the Magpie area
Back Creek 1859-1871 located in Amherst area
Campbells Diggings 1860-1863 located in Haddon area
Cabbage Tree 1859-1930 located in the Creswick area
Donkey Gully 1859-1877 located in the Faraday area
Dolly’s Creek 1861-1878 located in the Elaine area
Hardies Hill 1858-1879 located in the Buninyong area
Inkerman Lead 1861-1867 located in Ballarat area
Italian Gully 1860-1874 located in Cape Clear area
Jim Crow 1860-1864 located in Daylesford area
Long Point 1858-1866 located in Creswick area
Lucky Woman’s located in Linton area
Plank Road 1856-1874 located in Ballarat East area
Standard Lead 1862-1865 located in Linton area
Weatherboard Hill 1862-1948 located in the Learmonth area
Piggoreet 1863-1924 located in Scarsdale area
Bunker’s Hill 1860-1935 located west of Ballarat
Sheepwash 1866-1934 formally Tourello
Mount Rowan 1865-1946 located north of Ballarat
Grand Trunk 1865-1928 located in Haddon area
Coomoora 1866-1945 located in Daylesford area
Clydesdale located in Talbot area
Moonlight 1867-1883 now known as Berringa
Bungaree Springs 1871-1893 became known as Glen Park
Bungal 1875-1967 located in Mt Egerton area
Pootilla 1878-1946
Jerusalem 1896-1932 in Creswick locality.
I love the names of some of these schools. Wouldn’t it be great to say you taught at Donkey Gully or Sheepwash.
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