page_title: Toolangi, Victoria
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Toolangi, Victoria / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Toolangi from the air in June 2020
context_page_description: Toolangi is a rural township in Victoria, Australia. At the 2016 census, Toolangi and the surrounding area had a population of 344. It is situated on the edge of the Toolangi State Forest.
context_section_description: The name Toolangi is an Aboriginal word meaning tall trees or stringy bark.  It is believed the area was known as Mt Rose by European settlers up until the 1890s. European settlers was first inhabited Toolangi in the 1860s by paling splitters and then timber cutters, who camped deep in the bush. They were attracted by the huge stands of mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans), a tree that splits easily, and the messmate timber, which proved durable as a building material.
  Toolangi Post Office opened on 1 August 1900 and closed in 1974.
  It was not until the early 1960s that electricity came to Toolangi. Together with the opening of the Melba Highway, this created the impetus for industrial expansion in the area. An early development was the Potato Research Station (1945), which was followed by the Strawberry Certification Scheme.
  On 7 February 2009, the Black Saturday bushfires reached Toolangi and led to two deaths and 18 homes burnt. Fire surrounded the town for weeks and the whole area was quarantined for three weeks. The township itself and a small segment of forest in the Toolangi State Forest to the east of the town survived.
caption: Toolangi from the air in June 2020
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