Pyalong

Pyalong is a rural village on the Northern Highway, 23 km north of Kilmore. It was also a shire from 1863 until 1994.

Pyalong was the name of a pastoral run (1838) taken up by an overlander, Alexander Mollison. It is thought that the name was derived from an Aboriginal word meaning two small waterholes dug by women.

The Pyalong village was surveyed where Mollison Creek crosses the Northern Highway, about 5 km north of Mollison’s settlement at High Camp. An Anglican school was opened in 1858 and a Catholic school in 1859. They were replaced by the State school (1878).