Yendon, Victoria The stone from the railway station was reused to build garden retaining walls at the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education (now Federation University). Yendon's first school, the Common School opened in 1864, which in 1879 became Yendon State School and closed at the end of 1993. Yendon, Victoria Yendon is a small town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Moorabool, west of the state capital, Melbourne and approximately south east of Ballarat. The town was originally called Buninyong East, but was changed in 1879 to Yendon, believed to be an Indigenous Australian word meaning "waterhole".
Coat of arms of Victoria (Australia) Coat of arms of Victoria (Australia) The Coat of Arms of Victoria is the official symbol of the Australian state of Victoria. Victoria was the second state of Australia to gain arms, granted on 6 June 1910 by royal warrant of King George V. The state had been named in 1851 after his grandmother, who was Queen at the time. Following the adoption of the pink heath ("Epacris impressa" Labill.) as Victoria's floral emblem, Queen Elizabeth II signed a royal warrant on 28 March 1974 adding a Compartment from which the heath could grow. Although the rest of the arms