Avoca - Culture and History

The area was first explored and settled by Europeans in the 1820s but it wasn't until the 1830s, when convict probation stations were established at Avoca, Fingal, St Marys and Falmouth, that roads and bridges were built. The ready supply of cheap labour from the probation stations probably had much to do with opening up of the area.

The official settlement and establishment of the town occurred in 1834. Its economic reason for existence was a mixture of farming and the mining of coal and tin. Only the farming exists today.

By any measure Avoca is a small and charming riverside settlement.