Wangaratta

Wangaratta is a house of God city in the upper east of Victoria, Australia, around 250 km from Melbourne along the Hume Highway. The city had an expected urban populace of 18,891 at June 2016. The city is situated at the intersection of the Ovens and King streams, which deplete the northwestern slants of the Victorian Alps. Wangaratta is the managerial focus and the most crowded city in the Rural City of Wangaratta nearby government region. The first occupants of the territory were the Pangerang people groups, who talked a Gunai dialect.

A considerable lot of the Pangerang were slaughtered in the Gippsland slaughters. The principal European pioneers to go through the Wangaratta region were Hume and Hovell 1824 who named the Oxley Plains promptly south of Wangaratta. Major Thomas Mitchell amid his 1836 campaign made a good report of its potential as brushing field. The primary squatter to arrive was Thomas Rattray in 1838 who manufactured a cottage on the site of the Sydney Hotel establishing a settlement known as "Stoves Crossing".

There are three Australian tenets football clubs in Wangaratta, the Wangaratta Football Club, the Wangaratta Rovers Football Club both contending in the Ovens and Murray Football League, and the North Wangaratta Football Club, which contends in the Ovens and King Football League. The nearness of the Rovers and Wangaratta grounds mirrors the verifiable partisan split in enrollment of the clubs; Rovers participation being prevalently Catholic and Wangaratta being transcendently Protestant.