Alexandra Vic

Alexandra is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Goulburn Valley Highway (B340) and Maroondah Highway (B360), 26 kilometres west of Eildon, in the Shire of Murrindindi local government area. At the 2006 Census, Alexandra had a population of 2141.

History

The town was settled in the late 1860s, with a Post Office opening on 15 March 1867 as Redgate. The town was originally known as Redgate, or Red Gate Diggings. the current name either derives from Alexandra of Denmark when given a stature of her to the shire, or from three men named Alexander who discovered gold in the area in 1866.

Charles Jones born Herefordshire also discovered Gold on the Luckie Mine in 1866. He bought a Hotel with John Henry Osborne and was the proprieter of the New York and London Hotel Grant Street Alexandra.

The partnership was dissolved.

The railway to Alexandra arrived in the town as a branch line of the Tallarook to Mansfield rail line in 1909, and closed on November 18, 1978. In 2012, the rail line was converted and reopened as part of a Tallarook to Mansfield bike trail.

The Rubicon Tramway connected Alexandra with the village of Rubicon, at the junction of the Rubicon and Royston Rivers.

Alexandra today

Many tourists pass through this town on their way to the Mount Buller ski resort from Melbourne.