GERALDINE
What a delight Geraldine is as one of
those places that is now turning into a tourist town. Not long back a
small community struggling after the rural devastation of the
eighties; now we have museums, a lively shopping precinct and human
dynamics that clearly indicate a proud community at work and play.
The
Geraldine area started to be settled by Europeans in the 1840s and it
was in 1854 that Samuel Hewlings built the first bark hut in Talbot
Street.
Geraldine is in the heart of a prosperous farming area
with dairy cows, sheep, cattle, deer, cropping and fruit growing in
abundance. Almost 3,500 people live in the town and its surroundings
areas.
Geraldine has own and community two museums of which
the Vintage Cars is gaining an international reputation. The cbd
Museum has neatly packaged the history of Geraldine.
The War Memorial
is
located on the northern edge of the town and the hote l
is a great structure and its history is well documented at the museum. 
Geraldine has three great churches that clearly
continue to play a significant part on this great town and community.     
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