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Thorpdale () is a small country town in the . HISTORY The town was originally settled by people who found the area by following the McDonalds Track from Lang Lang . At the height of its time it was a business centre for all the farming activity that surrounded it. Much of the town was destroyed during the large Red Tuesday ( 20 January , 1898 ) bushfire that ravaged Gippsland and the Otway Ranges . TODAY The Thorpdale township is becoming smaller and smaller as more farming families opt to live in larger townships such as Trafalgar . The national decline in consumption of potatoes is making even farming difficult in the small town. ATTRACTIONS The township holds the Thorpdale Potato Festival each year on the Victorian Labour Day holiday in March. The festival features Potato Sack Race s. The lush farming surrounds give the town a peaceful rural atmosphere and there are several scenic sights nearby, including the Narracan Falls , Trafalgar South Lookout and Henderson's Gully. TALLEST TREE A mountain ash gum tree ('' Eucalyptus Regnans '') at Thorpdale South once held the record for a tree claimed to be the tallest tree in the world. The tree was measured as being over 114 m (375 feet) tall by a certified surveyor, although modern measurement techniques cast doubt on the accuracy of such measurements (see Tree#Champion Trees ). The tree was felled in 1880. In 1976 the tree's location was marked by a plaque and a pole one-tenth the height of the tree. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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