Brim Spring Picnic area - VIC

Small picnic area in historic area. Sign says:
‘Brim’ has been visited by different people for many years.
For thousands of years the Jadawadjali people gathered at this spiritual site where they still have a strong association. They know the area as ‘Brim’ which means spring. After early settlement this area became known as Brim Springs.

As the waters of this spring have continued to flow, many generations of local people have shared a connection with this place.

Charles Carter and his family settled here in 1845. The site of their log cabin was shown for many years by the scented geranium that his wife Thomasina planted.

The story is that Charles and family were heading south to Port Fairy from Horsham to take land up of their own. It had been wet for weeks with the Wimmera mud at its very worst, when the heavily-loaded bullock wagon lost a wheel. Thomasina simply sat down and refused to go any further, so this is where they stayed.

The Carters built a simple log cabin and began farming the area around Brim Springs.

In May 1848 at age 13, Samuel Carter son of Charles and Thomasina, walked the track to Melbourne to sign documents to proclaim Brim Springs as a station. Jadawadjali people continued to share the spring and the land with the Carter family.

The family prospered the area. Eventually they held almost half a million acres of farmland in and around the Grampians Stations included ‘Moora Moora’ in the Victoria Valley, ‘Rosebrook’ near Rose’s Gap in the north and ‘Glenisla’ on the western side of the Park.