Pomonal

Pomonal is a rural village on the eastern side of the Grampians National Park and 21 km south-west of Stawell.

Farm selections were taken up in the 1870s-80s and a primary school was opened in 1887. In the 1890s orcharding became widespread, and the settlement was know as Pomona (goddess of gardens and fruit). The name was changed to Pomonal in 1927. Orcharding intensified in the 1910s-30s, particularly when motor transport could carry cased fruit to the Stawell railway station. Tobacco was also grown in the 1930s and several farms had curing sheds.