Macarthur Historical Society - Royal Historical Society of Victoria

  • Ceremony to unveil a plaque to the Sparrow family

    Sparrow Farm Lake Gorrie Road, Macarthur, VIC, Australia

    Tony Wright wrote a terrific article in The Age on Saturday 7 March, The Sparrows fell, and the town won't forget. It tells of the big flood of March 1946 when Hamilton, Casterton, Heywood, Portland, Port Fairy and Warrnambool and all the villages in between were engulfed by floods. On Sunday 15 March at 2pm
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