for all . Harrow was gazetted within a handful of years of Mitchell making notes of the area . A hotel , post office , and stores all sprung up on the banks of the Glenelg laying foundations for what is said to be Victoria ’ s oldest inland settlement with little regard for 22,000 years of human history .
It was soon discovered that this part of Victoria was indeed Australia Felix , attracting farmers of all kinds . Graziers , pastoralists and even those seeking fortune from gold settled in the area . The Jardwadjali people were thrust into a world of the white man . Unaarrimin , Johnny Mullagh , was born on a white man ’ s farm .
The modern people of Harrow , a population of around 100 , doubled if you count the surrounding area , have embraced this history , they speak of Unaarrimin as if speaking of a hero , a legend . The name Mullagh adorns many buildings , the street scape tastefully reminds the uninitiated that this is a special place . Johnny Mullagh is a sporting hero , a legend that receives little recognition outside of Harrow .
As a child Unaarrimin played cricket , the quintessential of English pass-times , his name Black Johnny to distinguish him from White Johnny , an Aboriginal man in what was fast becoming a white mans world , a time of change forced upon .
A ten-year period from 1840 saw at least fifteen different massacres within the lands of the Jardwadjali people , at least 119 people native to the land murdered , as many as 200 .
“ The best way to procure a run is to go outside and take up a new run , provided the conscience of the party is sufficiently seared to enable him without remorse to slaughter natives right and left .” Wrote Neil Black , a squatter of the region in 1839 . “ It is universally and distinctly understood that the chances are very
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