Watsons Creek, Victoria
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Watsons Creek is a bounded locality in Victoria, Australia, 31 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Nillumbik local government area. Watsons Creek recorded a population of 58 at the 2021 census.
Watsons Creek lies to the north and west of Eltham-Yarra Glen Road.
History
Watsons Creek was named after Sandy Watson, who farmed fat cattle and sold butter and meat to the miners on the One Tree Hill, Happy Valley and Queenstown diggings.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
A Watsons Creek Post Office was open in 1903 and 1904. Watson's Post Office opened on 11 September 1911, was renamed Chiselhurst later that year and closed in 1923.<ref name = "a">Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
- Shire of Eltham – Watsons Creek was previously within this former local government area.