Poowong Post Office in the main street

Poowong
Small West Gippsland dairy town
Located 8 km north-west of Korumburra and 100 km from Melbourne is the dairying town of Poowong. The word 'poowong' is probably from an Aboriginal term thought to mean 'carrion' or 'putrefaction'. The first European settlers arrived in the area and spent their early years clearing the vast Gippsland forests.

Political journalist, Wilfred Burchett, the first western journalist to visit Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945, was born into one of the town's pioneering families.

Things to see:  

Log Cabin
A single-storey chock and log cabin in the town was built, it is believed, in the 1870s or 1880s for Miss Fanny Maubery. With its round, horizontal logs, filled with mud plaster, a roof originally shingled but now covered with iron, timber verandah, 12-pane sash windows and two brick chimneys, it is considered a good example of a construction technique once used on Victoria's goldfields.

Mudlark Pottery
Located in Nyora Rd, Mudlark Pottery displays the handthrown kitchen and tableware of Trevor Clark. It is open weekends, public holidays and most weekdays from 11.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m., tel: (03) 5659 2292.

	Hotels
	Poowong Hotel Main St Poowong VIC 3988 Telephone: (03) 5659 2351