Vervale, Victoria
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Vervale is a bounded rural locality in Victoria, Australia, Script error: No such module "convert". south-east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Cardinia local government area. Vervale recorded a population of 44 at the 2021 census.[1]
History
The Post Office opened as Kirwan's in 1909, was renamed Vervale in 1917 and closed in 1967.[2] The Post Office and General Store was taken over by James and Edith McMannis in 1916.[3] It closed in 1967 after the death of Mrs. McMannis, who died on 4 June 1967, Mr. McMannis having predeceased her on 9 April 1959.[4]
Vervale was one of the first places in Victoria where asparagus was grown commercially.[5] Mr. Thomas Roxburgh first grew asparagus on his Vervale farm in 1912.[6]
The school at Vervale, located on the corner of Thirteen Mile Road and Main Drain Road, opened in 1894 as Koo-Wee-Rup North No. 3201, it changed its name to Bunyip South in 1899 and changed its name again in 1905 to Iona State School.[7] The school closed in December 1993.[8]
Demographics
The joint population of Vervale and Iona in the 2011 census was 363; 196 males and 167 females.[9]
See also
- Shire of Pakenham – Vervale was previously within this former local government area.
References
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