Ebenezer Mission

[2] In 1861 the Victorian Colonial Government gazetted 1,897 acres (7.68 km2) as a reserve for the Ebenezer Mission Station.

The site selected was known as "Banji bunag", and had traditional meaning for the Wotjobaluk, being a corroboree ground according to elder Uncle Jack Kennedy, and also contained the grave for an Aboriginal woman shot dead, the mother of William Wimmera.

[3][4] The main aim of the mission was to "civilise" and Christianise the Aboriginal inhabitants of the area.

In 1902 the State Government of Victoria decided to close the Ebenezer Mission due to low numbers.

Despite these measures, some Wergaia families avoided relocation and remained on their ancestral lands.

At the upper left, a church and moving right a man with horses in front of a picket fence behind which are houses. At the bottom, thatched huts in front of a row of trees.
Ebenezer Mission, in 1882