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Today the economy of the shire is mostly primary industry. Thirty percent of those employed work in agriculture. Local production includes wool, cereal, hay crops and meat. Grapes are grown and there is a local wine industry. There is still some mining of gold. | Today the economy of the shire is mostly primary industry. Thirty percent of those employed work in agriculture. Local production includes wool, cereal, hay crops and meat. Grapes are grown and there is a local wine industry. There is still some mining of gold. | ||
=Repositories and their holdings= | = Repositories and their holdings = | ||
* [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~adhs/ADHSMain.htm Avoca and District Historical Society] | |||
*[http://home.vicnet.net.au/~adhs/ADHSMain.htm Avoca and District Historical Society] | |||
**documents, photographs, maps, microfilm of local newspapers & rate books, artifacts, etc., pertaining to the local area including comprehensive name indexes | |||
==On-line repositories== | |||
*[http://home.vicnet.net.au/~adhs/Lamplough.html Lamplough name index] | |||
**the name index was collated by Denis Strangman in the course of researching the gold rush to Lamplough, near Avoca, in Victoria, Australia, which took place during late 1859 and early 1860 | |||
*[http://grapevine.net.au/~gccayoung/aif/aif.xml Avoca & District Men and Women Who Served in the Great War] | |||
**compiled by Anne Young | |||
= Records = | = Records = | ||