Williamstown North

Williamstown North is a residential suburb 9 km south-west of central Melbourne. When it was an outlying farm area of Williamstown, a cemetery was laid out there in 1858 along Champion Road. Twenty years later a rifle range was laid out along Kororoit Creek Road, facing south toward the waters of Port Phillip Bay where misfired bullets might uselessly expire. Otherwise the area remained sparsely settled. In 1889 the Sands and Macdougall directory recorded the following in Kororoit Creek Road: Rifle Club hotel; gas works; abattoir; council pound and a refrigeration works.