Uncover the Rich Heritage of Mount Dandenong
Join us in preserving and sharing the fascinating stories and history of Mount Dandenong and its surrounding communities.
Latest Newsletter
- Mountain Tales: Issue 10
The Olinda Log Cabin reaches the ton!This year marks the centenary of another local log cabin of significance: the structure at the core of Kelly’s Bar & Kitchen in Olinda.
Latest Occasional Tales
- Occasional Tales from the Mountain No. 07
Memorialising war: how the hills honoured their WW1 Diggers How Australians memorialise wars and conflicts in a physical sense has shifted over the years and continues to change. In the hills after World War 1, as elsewhere, settling on an appropriate memorial sometimes itself became another deeply contested terrain. This story, up to the early years of the 21st century, is told fully in the late Ken Inglis’s spectacular piece of scholarship, Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape, first published in 1998, with a third updated edition published in 2008. Even before the Great War Armistice was signed, communities in Australia had set about the task of commemorating all those who had served and died in a war from which 60,000 Australians would never return.
Society
Explore how we share historical stories and artifacts that highlight the unique culture and history of our beloved district
Books
- The Mount Dandenong Volcano
Mt. Dandenong is the remains of an ancient super-volcano. It is quiet enough now, but it was once part of a series of eruptions that were some of the most destructive on the planet.
Maps
Find out where things were
We are actively creating modern maps based on historical records. It requires painstaking research and considerable technical expertise. Maps available to the public are a small subset of those available to members.