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In the 1850s, Euroa began to grow due to traffic generated by the gold rush. Ned Kelly, Australia's best-known bush
ranger, roamed the ranges around Euroa, holding up the National Bank in town during 1878.  The commercial centre of
Euroa stretches along part of Binney Street and Railway Street and features a number of historical buildings including
the post office (built in 1890), one of the former National Bank buildings (1885), the Euroa Hotel (1884) and Blairgowrie
House (1890). The first church built in Euroa was the Catholic Church in 1867.

Seven Creeks is the waterway which runs through the town centre of Euroa and is flanked on both sides by towering
native trees, parkland and recreational facilities. The waterway swells near Burtons Bridge at Tarcombe Street, where
there are shelters and picnic facilities. Adjacent to the park in Kirkland Avenue is the old Farmers Arms Hotel (built in
1876) which now houses the Farmers Arms Museum with its collection of local memorabilia. There is a miniature steam
train operating for rides in the parkland near Turnbull Street.  Being close to the Strathbogie Ranges makes Euroa a
handy base for exploring the natural beauty of the area, including a number of picturesque creeks, waterfalls and tourist
drives through the mountain ranges. Around 20 kilometres south-east of Euroa, along the road to the small community
of Strathbogie, is Mount Wombat. Rising to a height of 799 metres, there are panoramic views of the surrounding
countryside from the peak.

The name Euroa comes from an Aboriginal word in the old local dialect meaning "joyful". Major T.L. Mitchell camped
on the banks of the Sevens Creek at Euroa during his 1836 "Australia Felix" expedition. The Post Office opened on 1
January 1854 as the township was settled. Euroa's claim to fame is that the bank was robbed by Ned Kelly in 1878. Much
of the region's wealth once came from sheep but now it comes from horse studs.

Leslie Cecil Maygar VC, DSO, VD (27 May 1868 – 1 November 1917) was a Euroa recipient of the Victoria Cross, the
highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for
service in the Second Boer War. On 23 November 1901 at Geelhoutboom, Natal, South Africa, Lieutenant Maygar
galloped out and ordered men of a detached post, which was being outflanked, to retire. The horse of one of the men
was shot under him when the enemy were within 200 yards and Lieutenant Maygar dismounted and lifted the man on to
his own horse which bolted into boggy ground, making them both dismount. As the horse could not carry two, the
lieutenant again put the man on its back and told him to gallop for cover at once, while he himself went on foot. All this
took place under very heavy fire.

Alexander Stewart Burton VC (20 January 1893 – 9 August 1915) was a Euroa recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest
and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 18 August 1914, and embarked with the 7th Battalion (Victoria), on 19 October
1914. On 9 August 1915, at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey]... the enemy made a determined counter-attack on the centre of
the newly captured trench held by Lieutenant Tubb, Corporals Burton and Dunstan and a few men. [The enemy] advanced up
a sap and blew in a sandbag barricade, leaving only one foot of it standing, but Lieutenant Tubb with the two corporals
repulsed the enemy and rebuilt the barricade. Supported by strong bombing parties the enemy twice again succeeded in
blowing the barricade, but on each occasion they were repulsed and the barricade rebuilt, although Lieutenant Tubb was
wounded in the head and arm and Corporal Burton was killed by a bomb while most gallantly building up the parapet under
a hail of bombs. Burton was subsequently Mentioned in Despatches by General Sir Ian Hamilton on 28 January 1916.

Frederick Harold Tubb VC (28 November 1881 – 20 September 1917) was a Euroa recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest
and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
He was 33 years old, and a lieutenant in the 7th Battalion (Victoria), Australian Imperial Force during the First World War was
awarded the VC for his actions on 9 August 1915 at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey. Lieutenant Tubb held a newly captured trench
which was being counter-attacked by the enemy, who blew in a sand-bag barricade, leaving only a foot of it standing. Tubb led
his men back, repulsed the enemy and rebuilt the barricade. Twice more the enemy blew in the barricade, but on each
occasion this officer, although wounded in the head and arm, held his ground and assisted by corporals Alexander Stewart
Burton and William Dunstan, rebuilt it, and maintained the position under heavy bombardment.

Mervyn Gregory Hughes (Merv 'The Swerve') was born in Euroa on 23 November 1961. He is a former Australian cricketer. A
right-arm fast bowler, he represented Australia between 1985 and 1994 in 53 Test matches, taking 212 wickets. He played 33
One Day Internationals, taking 38 wickets. He took a hat trick in a Test against the West Indies at the WACA in 1988-89 and
went on to take 8-87. In 1993 he took 31 wickets in the Ashes Series against England. He was a useful lower-order batsman,
scoring two half-centuries in tests and over 1000 runs in all. He also represented Victorian Bushrangers, Essex second XI (in
English county cricket), Australian Capital Territory, Australia 'A' (in the World Series Cup), and Australia.

Eliza Forlonge, a memorial honours pioneer sheep-importer from Euroa played a large part in introducing Merino sheep to the
south-east part of the country. In the late 1820s she made three trips (of several months each) to Saxony, selecting the best
fine-wool Merino sheep she could find. In about 1851 her son William bought the lease of the Templeton property at Seven
Creeks station near Euroa and spent the rest of her days there. Eliza's part in introducing Victoria's first fine-wool Saxon
Merinos is commemorated, with a gravestone erected in 1933 on Forlonge Memorial Road. It is a slab of granite in the shape
of a wool pack. The Farmers' Arms Hotel Museum at Euroa includes rooms in an old building at Seven Creeks called "Eliza
Forlonge Cottage". Eliza was one of the chief characters in a semi-historical novel "Saxon Sheep" by Nancy Adams, a
great-grand-daughter of Janet Templeton.

Euroa is a railway station on the North East railway in Euroa, Victoria, Australia. The station is located on Railway Street and
is served by V/Line Albury-Wodonga line passenger services. Euroa has a single platform located to the east of the broad
gauge track, with the standard gauge running behind it. The station opened with the line in 1873, with the first permanent
station building erected in 1878. The platform was initially 300 feet (91 m) long, being extended to 400 feet (120 m) in 1900.
A second 300 feet (91 m) long platform once existed at Euroa, located against the goods shed wall and in use between 1880
and 1904 to permit the handling of two crossing passenger trains. An iron footbridge linked the two platforms between 1900
and 1904.

Euroa is situated on Seven Creeks, a tributary of the Goulburn River. Seven Creeks has its headwaters in the Strathbogie
Ranges south-east of Euroa. The headwaters comprise seven streams - hence the name. One of those streams is Faithfull's
Creek, named after the pastoral over lander William Faithfull who brought stock to the Euroa area in 1838. The area was known
to over landers by its having been explored by the New South Wales Surveyor-General, Major Thomas Mitchell, in his Australia
Felix expedition, 1836. In addition to William Faithfull two other pastoral enterprises were important in Euroa's beginnings.
The Seven Creeks pastoral run of 28,300 ha., six kilometres south-east of Euroa, was taken up by the Templeton/Forlonge
family interests. Janet Templeton, nee Forlonge, and her sister-in-law Eliza Forlonge imported Saxon sheep to Australia, and
stock was overlanded from Goulburn to Seven Creeks in 1838. In 1851 William Forlonge, Janet Templeton's nephew and
Eliza's son, acquired the Seven Creeks run. Their names are commemorated on a memorial as the persons who imported
the first fine-wool sheep to Victoria. The second pastoral pioneer was James Kirkland, the holder of the Urowa pastoral run
(1844-51), which in time became the name of the town and district.

Euroa was not one of the two prescribed or surveyed towns along the Melbourne to Sydney road, but the bridging of Seven
Creeks in 1854 for improvement of the route to the north-east golf fields was the genesis of a township. An Anglican school
was opened in 1856, and the town's first church, Roman Catholic, was opened in 1867. Farming around Euroa was mostly
pastoral, but during the 1870s farm selections were taken up and other activities commenced. A flour mill was opened in
1873, the year the railway was opened. Further south in the direction of Strathbogie, additional farm selections were taken
up, strengthening Euroa's town economy, its role as a place of supply and as a railway transport depot. A National Bank was
opened, soon to be the scene of a hold-up by the Kelly gang on 10 December, 1878.

On 3 November, 1879, Euroa shire was created by severance from Benalla shire, During the next decade the township grew
rapidly: the first of two weekly newspapers started (1884), lodges and friendly societies prospered, several of Euroa's
surviving public and commercial buildings were built and an active agricultural society was under way. Dairying activity
increased, and a butter and ice factory was opened in 1891. Creameries were opened elsewhere in the district and other
butter factories at Strathbogie and Tamleugh.

Euroa gained a higher elementary school in 1919, six years after Benalla's. Its local fame was strengthened by having three
Victoria Cross winners, two from Gallipoli and one from the Boer War, which was understood to be a record for a provincial
town. Sporting bodies were numerous during the 1920s and 1930s - twice-yearly race meetings, polo, a swimming enclosure
on Seven Creeks, a picturesque oval for district cricket, golf, cycling, tennis bowling and croquet club, coursing, and gun and
rifle clubs. An athletic club was begun in 1934.

Wool production increased as a proportion of Euroa's rural output, and the wool prices gained during the early 1950's
accentuated the change. The Euroa butter factory closed in 1951. Euroa gained several manufacturing industries, one being
Mrs. Simons and Sons clothing factory (1944). Tourism became important, and when the Seven Creeks run was sold for $2
million in 1973 it was planned as a tourist development. The venture was wound up and sold in 1984.

Euroa and Ned Kelly were inextricably linked on December 9, 1878 when the desperado and his gang baled up 22 hostages
at nearby Faithfull Creek Station. Before holding up the station and bank, the 22-year-old Kelly and his younger brother, Dan,
holed up in the Wombat Ranges to the south-east of Euroa where Ned confronted and killed three police constables.  On
December 10 1878, the Kelly gang invaded a station property near Euroa, 27 miles west of Benalla. Twenty-two people at
the sheep-station were rounded up and locked in a storeroom. Then, leaving Joe Byrne to guard the prisoners, Ned, Dan and
Steve Hart drove into Euroa in a hawker's cart. At 4 PM Ned Kelly entered the bank with a drawn gun, and Dan came in from
the rear. Ten minutes later they were out on the street again, richer by £2000 in notes and gold.  The homestead at Faithful
Creek was destroyed in the 1939 bush fires although the charred remains of the home remain.

Before the Kelly's could enter Euroa to rob the bank, they had to have a depot outside of town where they could spell their
horses. The place they chose, Faithfull Creek Station, also had the added benefit of being close to the railway where they
needed to cut the telegraph lines. After bailing up the people in the house, they then forced everyone into the storeroom
where they were kept under guard by Joe Byrne while the others prepared themselves to rob the bank.

A Seymour hawker named James Gloster arrived at Faithfull Creek Station during the holdup by the Kelly gang. The
Bush rangers found it suitable to change from their own bush clothes into new attire, thus allowing them to ride into Euroa
without raising suspicion. After forcing the bank manager, Robert Scott, to open the safe the gang robbed the establishment
of over two thousand pounds. The bush rangers then forced the bank staff and Mr. Scott's family to accompany them back
to the station so that no alarm could be given. Before leaving their hostages the bush rangers gathered everyone outside
where they entertained them with some trick riding. Ned then told them that no one was to leave until three hours had
passed from the time of their departure. The homestead at Faithful Creek was destroyed in the 1939 bush fires although
the charred remains of the home remain.

The Euroa area is thought to have been occupied by the Ngurelban Aborigines prior to European settlement and there
is an important Aboriginal art site in the Gardens Range, 10 km south-east of town. It is presumably from their language
that the town's name derives. 'Yera-o' is said to mean 'joyful'.  The first white men in the district were explorers Hume
and Hovell in 1824. Over landers drove their stock through an area to the north of the present townsite in 1837 or 1838
while following the track cut by explorer Thomas Mitchell in 1837. Squatters began taking up runs in the district in 1838.
One of the first was Seven Creeks, established by Janet Templeton in 1838. The adjacent 'Urowa' station was taken up
in 1840.

Euroa was surveyed in 1849 and planned as a roadside squatting centre in 1850-51 on the road from Melbourne to
Wodonga. Drovers camped at the spot due to the presence of a permanent water supply. By 1852 the town site consisted
of Euroa homestead in Kirkland St and two huts occupied by a boot maker and a married couple who worked on Euroa
station. However, the town grew more rapidly than expected due to the road traffic generated by the gold rushes. A store
and butcher's shop were the first commercial buildings. A hotel opened in 1853 and a post office in 1854. The first school
was established in a small bark hut in 1854. At this time the residences were all of slab or bark construction clotted with
clay and roofed with stringybark. In 1856 wheat farming began on small blocks and Euroa became a regular coach stop
on the Melbourne to Beechworth run. Timber and honey were also exploited commercially in the town's early days. The
first substantial church (Catholic) was built in 1867.

Football is known to have been played in Euroa as long ago as the 1870s, and the current club can trace its origins as
far back as 1880.  However, it was not until 1894, and the formation of the Euroa District Football League, that regular,
formal competition was embarked on. Euroa won the EDFL in the competition's first season, as well as at least once
more, but records from this period are scant. In 1913 the club was a foundation member of the Waranga North East
Football Association and repeated its achievement of a couple of decades earlier in the EDFL by winning the fledgling
competition's inaugural premiership.  With the exception of a two season stint in the Goulburn Valley Football League
in 1939-40 Euroa remained in the WNEFA until 1970 (see footnote 2).  During the post-World War Two period in
particular, the Magpies enjoyed considerable success, and indeed their final fourteen seasons in the competition
yielded no fewer than 8 premierships.  In both 1963 and 1969 they won the flag unbeaten.