Kerang

Kerang is a metropolis on the Loddon River in northern Victoria in Australia. It is the commercial centre to an irrigation district primarily based on cattle, horticulture, lucerne and grain. It is placed 279 kilometres north-west of Melbourne at the Murray Valley Highway some kilometres north of its intersection with the Loddon Valley Highway, elevation 78 metres. At the 2016 census, Kerang had a population of 3,893. Kerang is believed to be an Aboriginal word for Cockatoo. The Wemba-Wemba Aborigines are notion to were the area's first occupants. Thomas Mitchell was the first European to visit the region, in 1836.

Squatters commenced to settle within the location in 1845 and in 1848 Richard Beyes opened a public residence at a river crossing near the future townsite. This changed into followed by a saddlery and a church. In 1857 Woodford Patchell constructed a bridge upriver from the settlement which drew traffic from the sooner settlement. He built a shop, residence and inn that have become the center of what changed into to grow to be Kerang. Patchell became the first farmer within the state to apply irrigation and experimented with oats, barley, maize, millet, tobacco, beet, cotton and sugarcane. The Post Office opened on 29 July 1858. An earlier Kerang workplace, pretty remote, was renamed Wedderburn at the equal day.