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European settlement of the area began soon after when several women set up cabins and shanties to house miners in transit between the Dargo , Omeo and Ovens goldfields . Today Mt Eliza possesses a good commercial centre , specialty shops , beaches nearby and numerous holiday homes . Like all well intentioned schemes , Peel 's proposal looked good on paper but did not work in reality . Mt Stirling is a first-class cross-country skiing area just a few kilometres to the north-west of Mt Buller . Mandurah is also known as ' Crab City ' as the estuary is full of blue swimmer crabs.Environmental problems , relating to the Peel Inlet , have been cleared up by the Dawesville Cut which is a great fishing spot in itself . Persons using the internet to access material in paragraph 2 , will be told they are violating the Policy on Internet Sexual Harrassment . This early prosperity is evident in some surviving bluestone buildings including the Mt Shadwell Hotel ( 1855 ) and the Mortlake Flour Mill built in 1856 to capitalise on the needs of the diggers . Gordon then leased 20 000 hectares of the surrounding country known as Mt Lewen Station and drove almost 5000 sheep to the property from the port of Bunbury . Follow the Mount Macedon Rd through and beyond the Mt Macedon township . It is scenically located in the foothills of the Mt Buffalo Range , adjacent the Ovens River , Happy Valley Creek and Barwidgee Creek . A number of the gardens are available for inspection on October 25 as part of the Legacy weekend and some gardens are opened when the Mount Macedon Horticultural Society holds its two Flower Shows in spring and autumn . Here you will find Milawa Mustards located in the Old Emu Inn building ( 1861 ) which once served goldminers en route to the Ovens Valley , bullock teams supplying the goldfields and Cobb & Co coaches which once used it as a stopover . In fairness to Peel when he finally got organised his plan did enjoyed some success . The cemetery attached to the church includes the grave of Thomas Peel the founder of Mandurah . Most of the brochures on the district focus on Cooper 's Mill , a number of cottages which date back to the early settlement , the grave of Thomas Peel and the Christ Church with its interesting graveyard .