Address & Contact
225 Kennedys Rd
Arcadia VIC 3631
Phone: +613 5832 9700
Email: council@shepparton.vic.gov.au
Web: https://greatershepparton.com.au
Arcadia, a pastoral and agricultural district and a former village, is situated on the
Goulburn River, and is 12 km north-east of Murchison. The village was on the
Goulburn Valley railway line.
The name came from the
Arcadia pastoral run (1839) of about 32,400 ha, on the
Goulburn and Broken Rivers. The run was presumably named after
Arcadia in Greece, a place with plentiful pasture and water.
The village at the height of its activity, probably around 1910, had two stores, a hotel (delicensed in the 1940s), wine
shop, butter factory, butcher, bootmaker, blacksmith, Anglican, Presbyterian and Catholic churches and a railway station. A hall was built in 1926. Scarcely any of these remained in the 1980s.
Today
Arcadia is within the Greater City of Shepparton LGA in the
Goulburn Valley, an irrigated fruit and vegetable production district.