Cowwarr

Cowwarr is a rural village in Gippsland between Toongabbie and Heyfield. It is 24 km north-east of Traralgon.

The Cowwarr district was part of Hayfield pastoral run, taken up in the early 1840s. In the early 1860s, when gold rushes occurred in the Great Dividing Range to the west, a supply route quickly developed from Sale through Toongabbie, south-west of Cowwarr. From about 1866 an alternative route to Walhalla, the main goldfield, developed north of Toongabbie.