A Short History
Prior to the coming of the white man, the Taungurung people occupied a vast area along the catchments of the Goulburn River including this area that we now know as Seymour.
In 1824, Hume and Hovell on their return from Port Phillip, camped by the Goulburn River not far upstream of Seymour. In 1836 Major Mitchell crossed the Goulburn at Mitchellstown and soon afterwards overlanders and other early settlers began to use this crossing place. The mail service between Melbourne and Sydney had been operating for just a year when it was found that a better route was available using the "New Crossing Place".
An inn was operating there by the end of 1839. In 1841 the Government decided that the new crossing place was the likely spot for a town. Plans were laid before the Executive Council of NSW and Mitchell proposed the name Seymour which was approved on December 21st, 1843. The town was named after Lord Seymour, the son of the 11th Duke of Somerset.
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