Mudmelong

Back in the 1860s, in the Araluen Valley, there was a little gold mining settlement called Mudmelong, somewhere near where the distant house is sited. On the night of 23 February 1866, the Clarke bushranger gang took over the hotel there. When the four local police tried to capture the bushrangers in the hotel, things went badly astray - and the bushrangers captured the police. Oops! (After the bushrangers left, the police were able to return home next day).