Elders Real Estate Yarram

Yarram and District Central service township in West Gippsland Yarram is located 220 km south-east of Melbourne via the South Gippsland Highway and 21 metres above sea level. Located in the shire of Wellington, it is notable less for its own sights than for its proximity to the surf of Ninety Mile Beach (14 km), the Tarra-Bulga National Park, the Strzelecki Ranges and Wilsons Promontory. Yarram Yarram, as it was known until 1924, found its origins in an Aboriginal phrase thought to mean 'plenty of water' or 'waterfalls'. In 1841 the site, originally a low-lying swamp, was chosen by a Scottish clan leader, Aeneas Ronaldson MacDonnell, who, with his fellow Scots, attempted to set up a feudal-style court. However, the experiment folded and he subsequently moved to New Zealand. John Carpenter, an early settler, established the town's first industry when he built a flour and saw mill in 1857 on the Tarra River. Duke Street is named after another prominent early citizen, Thomas Duke, who owned the Yarram Hotel and built the Bank of Australia. The town of Yarram was gazetted in 1893. The town's growth related to the preference of local farmers for Yarram as a marketplace, rather than the more distant Port Albert.