Editing Churchill National Park (section)

==History==
The park that is now Churchill National Park was once the police corps headquarters for blacktrackers and provided grazing land for the police horses. Many years later it was known as the Dandenong Police Paddocks. In the 1920s, metropolitan development brought some change to the parklands, which was still known as Police Paddocks. Local stone was dug up for road metal and building material, a water supply channel was cut to Dandenong, and the State Electricity Commission obtained a power line easement. Fire and the clearing of the area took place. In 1939 the area was set aside as the Dandenong National Park, [[Government gazette|gazetted]] in February 1941, and later renamed Churchill National Park in 1944.<ref name=pn/>

An old quarry is located in the northwest corner of the park, where remains of the associated tramway and crusher foundations are still visible. The tramway was known as the Scoresby Tramway. Constructed by the Dandenong Shire Council in 1912, it was used to transport crushed rock from the quarry. The wagons travelled by gravity for most of the distance; when the topography leveled out, horses were used to draw them. The quarry operated for approximately three years. The tramway was removed after the cessation of quarrying.<ref>{{cite web|work=The Tramway Associated with Dandenong Shire Stone Quarry|title=Tracing the tramway route|author=D'Andrea, Roy|date=March 2007|url=https://app.box.com/s/gfxj1z6rupflsxs7a9dr}}</ref>