Alma

Alma is a rural locality on the Timor Creek, 6 km north-west of Maryborough and 140 km north-west of Melbourne.

Alma is also situated on the junction of the Adelaide-Inkerman gold lead and the Timor Creek. Like Inkerman, Alma’s name arose from the Crimean War: the first Crimean battle took place at the Alma River in September 1854, and gold was discovered at Alma in December 1854. It was also known for a short time as Joyce’s Diggings because of its proximity to Alfred Joyce’s ‘Norwood’ pastoral run west of Timor Creek.