OAKLANDS
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FAST FACTS
- Oaklands is 110km from Albury-Wodonga, 55km from Corowa and 40km from Berrigan.
- Rio Tinto and Coalworks have two separate leased areas with massive coal reserves.
- Kaolin is mined by Boral for the Jindera brickworks.
- A Victorian railway line connects Oaklands to Benalla, but the NSW line to Boree Creek is closed and its bridges burnt out.
- In 2009, a $16.5 million project converted the 77-kilometre Oaklands to Benalla line from broad to standard gauge.
- The late Doug Kerr and his nephew Peter created an extraordinary museum which continues to grow.
- A large Commonwealth stores depot that once stored redundant planes, munitions and chemicals is now used in part by the Pentarch Group for processing, packing and recycling ammunition.
FIVE THINGS TO DO
1. View the towering GrainCorp and GrainFlow silos and sprawling bunkers from public roads.
2. Search for endangered orchids at the Oaklands Orchid Habitat paddock, near the school.
3. Inspect the Oaklands (Doug Kerr) Vintage Museum with its rare machinery.
4. Drive out to Coorabin's kaolin mine excavation and tips.
5. Relax at Coronation Park, play bowls, exercise at the gym or the open-air swimming pool.
FAMOUS NAMES
The 14th Earl of Loudon (Michael Abney-Hastings) and the Countess of Loudon (Cr Margaret Bunton); Sir Arthur King Trethowan (1863-1937), grazier and NSW politician who farmed Clear Hills, Oaklands, founder and managing director of Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain, Insurance & Agency; Constable Colin Hore, police hero murdered in 1963.
