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Hotel in Yarra Ranges

Yet, the home hotel still operates on the following basis: open 365 days of the year there are no strangers here just friends we have not yet met. Winner of victoria's country hotel of the year, at the australian hotel's association victoria 2008 awards, a few small changes have been made to the home hotel since 1880. Visit our website to get more information.

The Home Hotel is a traditional Country Pub offering fantastic country fare with a warm and gracious main bar. Main Prohibit with Pool Table and important seating area. Our menu caters for all tastes with sumptuous steaks, delicious paras, brilliant pastas and outrageous children dishes. Whilst we don’t have our own accommodation, the area around the Hotel is dotted with Bed and Breakfasts. The area that the hotel has existed in is stepped in History. Arrive and look at the worn photos on our walls. Precede by Carey and Steven who focus on providing a immense experience for you, your family and friends. The Home Hotel supports the responsible service and consumption of alcohol.

Launching Place, a rural township with a substantial residential area, is on the route between Lily dale and Warburton. It is situated on the Yarra River, close where the river is entered by the Trivial Yarra River. When the Woods Point and other Gippsland gold fields were discovered a track was cut from Melbourne through the vicinity of Launching Place. Supplies were brought in by the track as far as Launching Place, and were then transported further upstream on flat bottomed boats, which were launched at that location. (More commonly, though, goods were transported along pack tracks.). During the 1860’s the hamlet was also obvious as wart’s after David wart’s Home Hotel. Despite the presence of the hotel, two nearby settlements grew somewhat at the expense of Launching Place. Don Valley, to the north, was the site of a primary school in 1884, which closed in 1894 when a school was opened in Yarra Junction. The railway made Launching Place close for tourists for the forest scenery and fishing, and a boarding house provided accommodation surplus to the Home Hotel’s. Local industries included saw mills, dairying and fruit growing. The original village center is near the hotel, where the Yarra River flows accessible to the main road and the Don Valley Road. Its’ residential area is on the Melbourne side of the village center, and began during the slow 1970s. It contains the school, two reserves and a scanty corner stores. North of Launching deposit is Don Valley, formed by two spurs from the northern ranges. Its heavily timbered slopes were opened up for farming around the turn of the century, but the area closer to the flatter ground where the Don River meets the Yarra River proved to be better for settlement. About one and a half kilometers north of Launching Store is gaining Farm that had a dairy herd and was run for community groups and school children to offer them experience of a active farm. The Post Office moved to coddles Creek four years later but, the Hotel, first known as warts, prior renaming as the Home Hotel continued and prospered and was for years a Cobb Co coach quit on the way to Warburton and the goldfields around Reefton. The give two deposit Edwardian main Hotel building was constructed in 1902 and incorporated one room, the pool room, of the clever 1860s building. Launching Deposit gained its name from the spot opposite the Hotel where goods where launched up the river to Yarra Junction and Warburton earlier the rail line was constructed. It also acted as a launch place for freshly cut logs to be transported down to milled in the Melbourne.