The Campaspe shire’s History Trail map has descriptions of 20 historical locations, including Kyabram’s Hazelman Cottage, while also celebrating “well-known locals’’ —headed by Echuca’s Brownlow Medallist Ollie Wines and the shire capital’s Eurovision entrant.
Campaspe shire’s Investment Attraction manager Astrid O’Farrell has worked with shirewide town representatives to put together the A4 double-sided tourist pamphlet.
Kyabram Tomorrow, the group working to develop a new town website and logo to create an improved township identity, was not involved in the map’s development.
It was the same for Kyabram Historical Society, who saw the map for the first time when it was sent to historian Eileen Sullivan by the Free Press.
Kyabram’s section of the map will include icons representing the fauna park based cottage, Plaza Theatre, town hall and murals, while an overflowing Echuca space is flooded with seven different historical options.
Kyabram historian Eileen Sullivan said she felt as though at least two or three other buildings were worthy of inclusion on the map.
There is the potential for further alterations to the map as a small initial print run is completed to allow for altered hours of operation and contact details.
The History Trail map is being developed in the same vein as the Arts Trail map, which featured galleries, murals and other structures at a range of Campaspe locations.
On that arts trail map there is one Kyabram site listed, being the Town Hall Gallery, while Tongala has its street art precinct, Girgarre its sound wall and Stanhope the Fonterra mural and art space.
Rochester had three sites listed on that initial map, while Echuca had double that amount featured on the art trail production.
Echuca maintains a dominant presence on the new History Trail map, with seven sites listed in the shire capital.
Other historical sites at Rochester, Lockington, Gunbower and Colbinabbin are also on the map.
Mrs Sullivan said the Hazelman Cottage facility at the fauna park’s inclusion on the map should include an asterix, because it cannot be visited without paying the entry fee associated with the fauna park.
“In order to visit Hazelman Cottage people have to pay the entry fee into the park,” she said.
A third map in the series is currently being prepared by the shire’s tourism team, which is aimed at the lucrative car club market.
Car clubs are regular visitors to the region and a map with a motoring emphasis will be the next to land at the printers.
The maps will be available from visitor information centres and at several Campaspe shire businesses.
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