Editing Tallangatta (section)

==History==
Tallangatta was founded in the 1870s, the Post Office opening on 15 May 1871.<ref name = "a">{{Citation  | last = Premier Postal History  | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | access-date = 11 April 2008}}</ref>

On the arrival of the railway it served as a rail gateway for the [[Mitta Mitta River|Mitta]] and Upper [[Murray River|Murray]] [[valleys]] (the Upper Murray only until the railway was extended to [[Cudgewa, Victoria|Cudgewa]]).  Some [[gold]] and [[tin]] mining occurred in the late 19th and early 20th century, though, unlike [[Beechworth]], little evidence of this remains.  The amount of gold produced was relatively small compared to other mines elsewhere in the region.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oppy |first=I.D. |last2=Cayley |first2=I.D. |last3=Caluzzi |first3=J. |date=1995 |title=The Geology and prospectivity of the Tallangatta 1:250 000 sheet |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1010082 |access-date=2022-04-18 |website=Geological Survey of Victoria, Department of Agriculture,  Energy & Minerals |publisher=[[Government of Victoria]] |format=PDF |isbn=0 7306 7980 2 |issn=1323 4536}}</ref>

Since that time, Tallangatta has been a service centre for the local farming community, with a [[butter]] factory operating throughout much of the 20th century. Improved road transport links finally ended both the dairy and the rail link in the 1970s (with dairy processing operations now concentrated in [[Tangambalanga, Victoria|Tangambalanga]], about {{convert|15|km|mi|0}} to the west).

The most distinctive aspect of the town's history is that it was moved {{convert|8|km|mi|0}} to the west in the 1950s to a site known as Bolga to allow for the expansion of Lake Hume. Stories of the transition from old town to new town were captured in the 1988 book ''Slates and Suet Puddings'' by Carmyl Winkler.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/609846 |title=Slates and suet puddings  |first1=Carmyl |last1=Winkler |first2=Dulcie |last2=Callander |year=1988 |publisher=C. Winkler |isbn=9780731646500 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> On 14 April 1955 the Post Office was renamed Tallangatta East and a new Tallangatta office opened at the new town location.<ref name = "b">{{Citation | last = Premier Postal History  | title = Post Office List | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country= | access-date = 11 April 2008}}</ref> The sign welcoming motorists to town reads "Tallangatta, the town that moved in the 1950s".

The grid layout of the streets of Old Tallangatta is clearly visible in Google Earth.

The Tallangatta Magistrates' Court closed on 1 January 1990.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/committees/lawrefrom/legal_services/final_report.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404125854/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/committees/lawrefrom/legal_services/final_report.pdf |archive-date=2012-04-04 |url-status=live | title=Review of Legal Services in Rural and Regional Victoria | publisher=Parliament of Victoria Law Reform Committee | date=May 2001 | access-date=12 April 2020 |pages=291–292}}</ref>