Beulah
Population: 320
Distances:
Melbourne- 382kms
Hopetoun - 25kms
Warracknabeal - 36kms
Beulah is a small wheatbelt town which services a prosperous agricultural community between Warracknabeal and Hopetoun.
Beulah owes its origin to the arrival of the early pastoralists in the mid 1800's who were following the course of the Yarriambiack Creek as it flowed north to Lake Corrong near Hopetoun.
The townsite stands on what was once Brim sheep station. When the area was opened up for closer settlement many selectors came from the Wimmera district, including the McKenzies who took up land just north of the present townsite in 1882. Devout Presbyterians, they named the township after a place named in the Bible.
The McKenzie land was subdivided in 1890, a survey conducted and the town was officially proclaimed in 1891.
Beulah offers limited shopping facilities but due to it's close proximity to Hopetoun, this does not prove a problem.
