1 site · RV, Tent3 acres · Cressy, VICCressy is a rural town 35 km north of Colac in western Victoria. It is on the Hamilton Highway and the railway line to Ararat.
The settlement of Cressy came about by a Frenchman, Jean d'Auvergnay, settling at the nearby Woady Yaloak River in 1840. He apparently moved there from Camperdown, to a place which he thought was less menaced by Aborigines. He built 'Frenchman's Inn' on the site of the future Cressy, which was named after his birthplace in France, Crecy. Lake Rosine, about 6 km westwards, is named after his wife.
The inn was near the junction of tracks from Port Phillip to Portland and Port Fairy. A bridge was built over Woady Yaloak River in 1849. The township of Cressy was surveyed in 1851, and Duverney Street commemorates the founder's name. d'Auvergnay acquired a pastoral run, and most of the country around Cressy was occupied by similar properties until 1905. There was a Presbyterian church (1862), a school (1866) and the inn. In 1903 Cressy was described in the Australian handbook:
Cressy in recent times Edit
Cressy was once a bustling town with several shops, garages, churches and a thriving railway station. Cressy still boasts many interesting old buildings, although many were destroyed in the fires of 1977 which also killed three people.[4] There are two beautiful old churches, and the Cressy Historical Society is now housed in the Presbyterian Church, opposite the old Post Office and general store. The church was built in 1862 and is open for research on the first Sunday of every month. The Cressy police station closed in 2010. The old post office and telephone exchange was built in 1924 at a cost of £5,000. After it was closed it was turned into a family home. It opened as a cafe and mixed business which operated until 2014. The public restrooms back onto a picnic spotj with a new children's playground.
The town football team went into recess in 1998 after the Western Plains FL merged with the Lexton FL.
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