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== The Post Office's place in the KellyGang story ==

All most as soon as the squatters came to North Eastern Victoria there as a need to have a system to develop the letters from home. In a short time there were regular deliveries of news and mail from Sydney and Melbourne. The postmasters in the towns also managed the [[Telegraph|telegraph]].

== The Post Offices in the KellyGang story ==

[[Adelong|Adelong]]

[[Albury|Albury]]

[[Alexandra|Alexandra]]

[[Beechworth|Beechworth]]

[[Benalla|Benalla]]

[[Burramine|Burramine]]

[[Chiltern|Chiltern]]

[[Echuca|Echuca]]

[[EI Dorado|Eldorado]]

[[Euroa|Euroa]]

Domaille's (closed 1876)

[[Glenrowan|Glenrowan]]

[[Jerilderie|Jerliderie]]

[[Hay|Hay]]

[[Mansfield|Mansfield]]

[[Narrandera|Narrandera]]

[[Shepparton|Shepparton]]

[[Violet Town|Violet Town]]

[[Wahgunyah (2)|Wahgunyah]]

[[Wagga Wagga|Wagga]] Wagga

[[Wallan Wallan|Wallan]]

[[Wodonga (2)|Wodonga]]

[[Millers Ponds|Yarck]] (opened 1877)

[[Yarrawonga|Yarrawonga]]

== ENJOY ... ==

== People who worked in the Post Office in the Kelly country ==

[[Jefferson|Rankin]] James Ewan

[[Glenrowan|Reynolds]] Hillmorton [[Beechworth|Deverell]]

[[Jefferson|Jefferson]] Henry B

[[Mansfield|Newland]] George W '''.'''

== Mail routes ==

Mail was carried through the countryside on regular routes. Many of them in the mid 1870s were the [[Coaches|coaching]] routes run by [[Crawford|Crawford]]. The mail contracts were important to provide the coaching companies with a regular income. Of course most of the mail was delivered by [[Railways|train]] were the lines existed

{| class="wikitable"

| From

| To

|-

| [[Banawatha|Banawatha]] (3 days a week)

| South Barnawatha

North Wooragee

| [[Yackandandah|Yackandandah]]

|-

| Beechworth (6 days a week)

| [[Chiltern|Chiltern]]

Indigo

| [[Rutherglen|Rutherglen]]

[[Wahgunyah (2)|Wahgunyah]]

|-

| [[Beechworth|Beechworth]] (6 days a week)

| [[Everton|Everton]]

|  

|-

| Beechworth (6 days a week)

| [[Stanley|Stanley]]

| Hillsbrough

|-

| Beechworth (6 days a week)

| Reid's Creek

[[Woolshed|Woolshed]]

Reidford

| [[EI Dorado|Eldorado]]

[[Tarawingi|Tarawingee]] Station

|-

| Benalla (twice a week)

| Devenish

[[Dookie|Dookie South]]

| Sumpston's store

[[Pine Lodge|Pine Lodge]]

[[Shepparton|Shepparton]]

|-

| [[Benalla|Benalla]] (once a week)

| Devenish

[[Katandra|Katandra]]

| [[Yabba|Yabba Yabba]]

[[Cobram|Cobram]]

|-

| [[Hurdle Creek|Bobinawarrah]] (twice a week)

| [[Hedi|Hedi]]

|  

|-

| Bright (3 days a week)

| Freeburgh

| Harrietville

|-

| [[Buckland|Buckland]] (3 days a week)

| Lower Buckland

| [[Porepunkah|Porepunkah]]

|-

| [[Chiltern|Chiltern]] (3 days a week)

| Browns Plains

| [[Howlong (2)|Howlong]]

|-

| Chiltern (6 days a week)

| Doma Mungi

|  

|-

| [[Euroa|Euroa]] (3 days a week)

| [[Faithfull's Creek (2)|Balmattum]]

|  

|-

| Euroa (once a week)

| Lower Moira

Barmah

| Broken Creek

Ulupna

|-

| Euroa (twice a week)

| Undera

Mooroopna

| Shepparton

|-

| [[Everton|Everton]] (6 days a week)

| Bowman's Forest

Taylor's Gap

[[Myrtleford|Myrtleford]]

Eurobin

| [[Porepunkah|Porepunka]]

[[Bright|Bright]]

Wandiligong

|-

| [[Doon|Doon]] (twice a week)

| Dry Creek

|  

|-

| [[Glenrowan|Glenrowan]] (6 days a week)

| [[Greta|Greta]]

|  

|-

| [[Kiewa|Kiewa]]

| Bungoonie

[[Mitta Mitta (2)|Mitta Mitta]]

[[Tallangatta|Talangatta]]

[[Koetong (2)|Koetong]]

Wabba

| Cudiewa

Corryong School

Colac Colac

[[Towong|Towong]]

|-

| Kiewa (once a week)

| Snowy Creek

Sandy Creek

Noorengong,

| [[Tallandoon|Tallandoon]]

[[Mitta Mitta (2)|Mitta]]

|-

| [[Longwood|Longwood]] (6 days a week)

| Merton,

Doon,

| Maindample

[[Mansfield|Mansfield]]

|-

| [[Mansfield|Mansfield]] (once a week)

| [[Delatite|Delatite]]

|  

|-

| [[Milawa|Milawa]] (twice a week)

| [[Hurdle Creek|Hurdle Creek]]

|  

|-

| [[Moyhu|Moyhu]] (once a week)

| [[Hedi|Hedi]]

|  

|-

| [[Murchison|Murchison]] (twice a week)

| Moorilim

Pethybridge's

Castle Creek

| Spencers Farm

Kialla West

[[Arcadia|Arcadia]]

|-

| [[Myrtleford|Myrtleford]] (3 times a week)

| Running Creek

|  

|-

| [[Omeo (2)|Omeo]] (once a week)

| [[Reedy Creek|Reedy]]

|  

|-

| [[Porepunkah|Porepunkah]] (3 times a week)

| Lower Buckland

| [[Buckland|Buckland]]

|-

| [[Stanley|Stanley]] (6 days a week)

| [[Hurdle Creek|Hurdle Creek]]

|  

|-

| Wangaratta (6 days a week)

| [[Oxley|Oxley]]

[[Milawa|Milawa]]

Moyhu Post Office

| Taylor's Gap

Murmungee

Beechworth

|-

| Wangaratta (3 times a week)

| Estcourt

|  

|-

| [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]]

(once a week in 1876 '''John Jones''')

| [[Killawarra|Kilawana]]

[[Peechelba at kellyGang|Peechelba]]

Bandalong

| [[Yarrawonga|Yarrawonga]]

[[Burramine|Burramine]]

[[Cobram|Cobram]]

|-

| Wangaratta (6 days a week)

| [[Bontherambo Plains|Bontherambo]]

|  

|-

| [[Wahgunyah (2)|Wahgunyah]] (6 days a week)

| [[Rutherglen|Rutherglen]]

| Springhurst

|-

| [[Wodonga (2)|Wodonga]] (once a week)

| [[Bonegilla P|Bonegilla]]

[[Bethanga (2)|Bethanga]]

Talgarno

[[Bungil|Bungil]]

| [[Thologolong|Thologolong]]

[[Burrowye|Burrowye]]

[[Jingellac|Jingellic]]

[[Walwa|Walwa]]

Tintaldra

|-

| [[Wodonga (2)|Wodonga]] (3 days a week)

| Osborne's Flat

[[Kiewa|Kiewa]]

| [[Yackandandah|Yackandadah]]

|-

| Yackandandah (3 days a week)

| Hillsborough

Yackandandah Junction

| Twist's Creek

Sutton

|-

|}

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