Old Walhalla Post Office Museum
Imagine the vast quantity of letters and parcels, telegrams, news, money orders and other items which would have moved in and out of a thriving but isolated mining town like Walhalla. More than a century ago this Post Office was the primary avenue of communication, handling around 50,000 items of mail a year. Today, as a museum, it preserves some of those same items for posterity. The heritage listed building comprising the post office and post master’s residence was built in 1886, and by surviving flood and fire it is the only original public building remaining in town.
Imagine the vast quantity of letters and parcels, telegrams, news, money orders and other items which would have moved in and out of a thriving but isolated mining town like Walhalla. More than a century ago this Post Office was the primary avenue of communication, handling around 50,000 items of mail a year. Today, as a museum, it preserves some of those same items for posterity. The heritage listed building comprising the post office and post master’s residence was built in 1886, and by surviving flood and fire it is the only original public building remaining in town.
Imagine the vast quantity of letters and parcels, telegrams, news, money orders and other items which would have moved in and out of a thriving but isolated mining town like Walhalla. More than a century ago this Post Office was the primary avenue of communication, handling around 50,000 items of mail a year. Today, as a museum, it preserves some of those same items for posterity. The heritage listed building comprising the post office and post master’s residence was built in 1886, and by surviving flood and fire it is the only original public building remaining in town.
Historical image: Lee Brothers. (1890). Lee collection of photographs of the Walhalla region, Victoria, National Library of Australia, nla.obj-152074390
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