Morwell

Morwell is located 148km east of Melbourne on the Princes Highway in the heart of Victoria's power generating centre, the Latrobe Valley. Founded in 1861 Morwell was originally known as Maryvale until 1888 when the town was renamed as Morwell. The Morwell area was a grazing run until a prospector discovered brown coal in 1873 and by 1889 the Great Morwell Coal mining Company had set up a coal mine and briquette plant that only remained running until 1894. In 1916 an open cut coal mine opened in the Morwell area and supplied brown coal to a briquette factory which opened in Morwell in the early 1920's and also to the Yallourn power station (Victoria's first permanent power station) which was completed in 1924, from that point on the Morwell and Latrobe Valley area began to build as Victoria's power generating centre. Later on the Morwell power station was completed in 1962, then followed the Hazelwood power station just to the south of Morwell (Completed 1971), Followed by Yallourn W power station and the Jeeralang gas turbine power station (Burns natural gas and can supply 465 megawatts of power to the electricity grid in less than 20 minutes) was built 1971, then the Massive Loy yang power station (A 1984. B 1996) just south of Traralgon. In fact from The Ridge in Morwell (Follow Signs to "Power Works") you can see all of the area's power stations from the one place, albeit from a distance.
Other than electricity the Morwell area also has the Australian papers Maryvale plant which is Australia's largest paper manufacturing plant and a huge agriculture industry.

Below are pictures taken around Morwell as well as a couple of special places in the Morwell area.
These pictures include the oldest remaining buildings in Morwell