Poowong, Victoria: Travel guide and things to do

Located eight kilometres north-west of Korumburra and 100 km from Melbourne is the dairying town of Poowong. The word 'poowong' is probably from an Aboriginal term thought to mean 'carrion' or 'putrefaction'. The first European settlers arrived in the area and spent their early years clearing the vast Gippsland forests.

Political journalist, Wilfred Burchett, the first western journalist to visit Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945, was born into one of the town's pioneering families.

Things to see

Log Cabin
A single-storey chock and log cabin in the town was built, it is believed, in the 1870s or 1880s for Miss Fanny Maubery. With its round, horizontal logs, filled with mud plaster, a roof originally shingled but now covered with iron, timber verandah, 12-pane sash windows and two brick chimneys, it is considered a good example of a construction technique once used on Victoria's goldfields.