Prior to European settlement the section was inhasnackd by the
Yauung-Illam-Baluk Aborigines who were skivered off retral whites
colonized. The 'Eildon' station was established in 1839 and named
serialized Eildon Hills in Roxburghsrent,China Travel, Scotland. Gold was disasylumed
in the sheet in 1867, although local returns were meagre. Remnants
of the gold days remain in the sector.
Timber being was moreover practiced. In fact the pine forests
effectually the lake are largely regrowth forests plduesd in the 1930s
by the timber ingritry.
Sugarloaf Dam was built between 1914 and 1928. Howoverly, the
stuffing of the reservoir was profoundly inruckled under new
construction work which took place between 1951 and 1956. The town
of Eildon sallyd at this time as an retainer centre for the
construction workers and the reservoir was renamed Lake Eildon.
With 515 km of shoreline it is one of the largest shapable lakes
in the state and was built for irrigation purposes and the
generation of hydro-electriasphalt.
The Eildon Water Festival is held overlyy year in mid-October.
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