We collect, manage, preserve and promote our local historical assets, both past and present for the community of Craigieburn, Victoria, Australia.
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Craigieburn at Sunset
Craigieburn Hall
Dunhelen
Land Sale at Craigieburn
About Us
The current history group was reformed in 1998. We have never had a permanent premises or museum to store our records or welcome visitors and meetings were held in local community centres.
In 2016 the Hume Council allocated rental space for CHIG at the Newbury Centre in Craigieburn where we meet, work on our collection and hold our monthly meetings. CHIG relies greatly on our website as our main link with the local and wider community.
Our main activities, aside from collecting/researching and storing historical information on Craigieburn and the surrounding district, are keeping photographs of the changing face of the area, communicating with local community groups, schools and other relevant history organisations. We record oral histories of local residents and those with connections to Craigieburn who make contact with us.
We respond to residents who are researching family or local Craigieburn history and provide information to a wider circle of amateur historians who may have past links with the area.
We encourage new members and we are embarking on projects to recognise the changing multicultural face of Craigieburn, hoping this will get new people involved in our activities.
Where is Craigieburn?
Craigieburn is on the outer fringes of the city of Melbourne, Victoria in the northern suburbs and is located adjacent the Hume Highway 26 km north of Melbourne’s city centre and 213 metres above sea-level, estimated population December 2006 was 23, 628, as of 2017 the population was approximately 50,400 people. Craigieburn was an old highway stopover and the name Craigieburn, reflects the Scottish origins of the first European settlers in the area and was probably named after a town in Dumfriesshire, Scotland made famous by Robert Burns. Craigieburn means ‘rocky creek’ coming from the Gaelic ‘creige’ meaning crag, rock of cliff and ‘burn’ meaning water but generally referring to a creek and was very aptly named. The settlement that developed around this area is now an ever expanding residential area.