Elaine is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Midland Highway between Ballarat and Geelong.

The football and tennis clubs were scrapped soon after, and the recreation reserve's courts and facilities fell into disrepair.

[7] In 2010, after the reserve received a small government grant to build a barbecue area, residents were motivated to hold a meeting and see if they could revive the tennis club.

Within six months of putting up an advertisement on the Midland Highway, the club had three junior teams and 35 sponsors.

In December 1922, publican Henry Gray was put on trial for fatally shooting drunken customer Michael Fahey, who had attacked him with an axe, but was acquitted.

[4] Locals, including the current publican, Bevley Townsend, tell a story that a murdered 19th-century miner, Lenny, has been reincarnated as the hotel's resident poltergeist.

[8] The Farmgate's owner, Mark Dunne, said that it was one of the first titles registered in Elaine on Cobb & Co.'s Geelong–Ballarat service.