History of Dereel
here in the government gazette's - i found the first reference to Dereel in 1868 - for the Grassy Gully Quartz mining Company, as the original dereel was over on Grassy diggings where Grassy Gully rd is now, until the town was proclaimed on the main rd in 1875 and subdivided up.
Government Gazettes
http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1872&class=general&page_num=561&state=V&classNum=G16&searchCode=3622906 - 15/3/1872 school
http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1871&class=general&page_num=378&state=V&classNum=G17&searchCode=3622906 - 3/3/1871 water rites
http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1872&class=general&page_num=1926&state=V&classNum=G69&searchCode=3622906 - 18/10/1872
http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1872&class=general&page_num=1926&state=V&classNum=G69&searchCode=3622906 - 24/7/1874 cemetery
http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1875&class=general&page_num=1282&state=V&classNum=G46&searchCode=3622906 - 2/7/1875 town proclaimed
http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1868&class=general&page_num=1665&state=V&classNum=G108&searchCode=3623084 - 31/9/1868 grassy diggings