Glenorchy

Glenorchy is a rural village on the Western Highway and the Melbourne-Adelaide railway where they cross the Wimmera River, 15 km north-west of Stawell.

Glenorchy’s origins were the opening of a hotel and store in 1847 (the former mainly patronised by pastoral workers) at the crossing place on the Wimmera River. A post office was opened in 1849, and township lots were surveyed and sold in 1850. The first hotel, Four Posts Inn, was supplemented by several others during the 1850s-60s the most notable being the Royal Hotel (1855) which was demolished in 1968.