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".
South Australia–Victoria border dispute South Australia–Victoria border dispute The border between the Australian state of South Australia and what is today the State of Victoria was established in 1836 by imperial letters patent "as the 141st degree meridian of longitude east of Greenwich". In 1836 the land in what is now called Victoria was part of the colony of New South Wales, the original Victorian border was drawn between the colonies of South Australia and New South Wales. Due to human error by numerous explorers and surveyors, it took more than 75 years and a protracted legal dispute before the precise placement of the