History of Dereel

 http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1868&class=general&page_num=1665&state=V&classNum=G108&searchCode=3623084

 

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.