Omeo
Historic goldmining town on the edges of the Snowy Mountains.
Omeo is an old goldmining town in the mountain country 97 km north of Bruthen and 400 km north-east of Melbourne via the Princes and Omeo Highways. Now a quiet and sleepy township of around 300 people, based on cattle, sheep and timber, it was once a rugged, unruly frontier town. Indeed, the first magistrate, Judge Browne, better known as early Australian novelist Rolf Boldrewood (famous for his novel Robbery Under Arms), regarded the Omeo goldfields as the roughest in Australia.
An information centre is currently being built in town adjacent to (and in association with) the Omeo German Cuckoo Clock Shop and Gallery on the Great Alpine Rd, tel: (03) 5159 1552. It also furnishes maps of and books about the historic area.
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