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Eaglehawk is approximately 14.5 square kilometres and has four parks covering nearly 2.1 per cent of total area.<\/p>\n
The population in 2016 was 5691 and by the 2021 Census it had decreased to 5538 showing a population decline of 2.6 per cent in the area during that time.<\/p>\n
Eaglehawk is a residential suburb in the north-west of urban Bendigo with its town centre five kilometres from the Bendigo central business district.<\/p>\n
Gold was discovered at Bendigo in October 1851 and the gold-bearing land extended several kilometres north and north-west of Bendigo, beyond Eaglehawk.<\/p>\n
California Gully and Sailors Gully recorded gold finds in the first half of 1852, along with Eaglehawk.<\/p>\n
In 1854 town lots were surveyed and sold along High Street, Eaglehawk, where it divides into Sailors Gully and Pegleg Gully Roads (Pyramid Hill Road and Loddon Valley Highway).<\/p>\n
A National school was opened in 1854 on the site occupied by the present primary school. Two Methodist churches were opened the following year, and further north at Sailors Gully a second school was opened (now Eaglehawk North school).<\/p>\n
The 1860s were a period of rapid growth, but with mostly short-lived or hastily run up buildings nut the next two decades saw more substantial developments.<\/p>\n
Eaglehawk borough was created on 29 July 1862 and by the end of the decade there were also Anglican and Presbyterian churches and a mechanics’ institute.<\/p>\n
Gas was laid on in 1866, the railway from Bendigo to Bridgewater was opened in 1876.<\/p>\n
In 1882 Eaglehawk became a railway junction when the line to Raywood was opened.<\/p>\n
The 1870s and 1880s also saw the creation of a botanical garden (Canterbury Park) and the adjoining Lake Neangar, the extravagantly designed primary school (1884) and the first tramway.<\/p>\n
A new town hall was built in 1901 and the trams were electrified in 1903.<\/p>\n
At about that time mining employment and the borough’s population began to decline, more than halving between the 1901 and 1933 censuses.<\/p>\n
Minor population growth occurred in the 1960s, a high school was opened in 1964 and the tramline closed in 1973.<\/p>\n
CoreLogic data indicates that the predominant age group in Eaglehawk is 0-9 years with households being primarily younger couples and are likely to be repaying on average $1300 per month on mortgages.<\/p>\n