Tootgarook
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| type = suburb
| name = Tootgarook
| city = Melbourne
| state = vic
| image = File:Tootgarook Recreation Reserve 2023-02-22.jpg
| caption = Tootgarook Recreation Reserve
| alternative_location_map = Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne
| coordinates = {{coord|38.374|S|144.849|E|display=inline,title}}
| pushpin_label_position = left
| lga = Shire of Mornington Peninsula
| postcode = 3941
| pop = 3,178
| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}}
| pop_footnotes = {{Census 2021 AUS|id=SAL22550|name=Tootgarook (State Suburb)|accessdate=5 July 2022|quick=on}}
| area = 3.6
| est = 1850{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4773733 |title=Advertising |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |volume=II |issue=463 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=9 May 1850 |accessdate=8 January 2019 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} , ...COUNTY OF MORNINGTON. / No. | NAME. | EXTENT OF RUN. | NAME OF RUN. | SITUATION. / 17 | Smith, George | 20 Square miles | Tootgarook . . | Port Phillip Bay...{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140840462 |title=The Smiths of Early Melbourne. |newspaper=The Australasian |volume=CXXXI |issue=4,313 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=5 September 1931 |accessdate=8 January 2019 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}, ... and being interested in Tootgarook (Dromana) with Edward William Hobson. he married the widow of Dr. Edmond Charles Hobson in 1849...{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141773232 |title=Pastoral Pioneers |newspaper=The Australasian |volume=CXL |issue=4,558 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=16 May 1936 |accessdate=8 January 2019 |page=4 (METROPOLITAN EDITION) |via=National Library of Australia}}, ...Mrs. Waterfield was a sister of James Purves, who in association with George Smith, of the Lamb Inn, afterwards Scott's Hotel, and Edward Hobson, of Kangarong and Tootgarook, did much for the early stock-breeding industry of Port Phillip, particularly light horses...
| stategov = Nepean
| fedgov = Flinders
| dist1 = 81
| location1 = Melbourne
| dist2 = 7
| location2 = Rosebud
| near-nw =
| near-n = Port Phillip
| near-ne =
| near-w = Rye
| near-e = Capel Sound
| near-sw =
| near-s = Cape Schanck
| near-se = Boneo
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Tootgarook ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|ʊ|t|ɡ|ə|r|ʊ|k}} {{respell|TUUT|gə|ruuk}}) is a suburb on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, {{convert|62|km|abbr=on}} south of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Mornington Peninsula local government area. Tootgarook recorded a population of 3,178 at the 2021 census. Tootgarook is located within Boonwurrung Country.
History
Tootgarook is an Aboriginal word meaning "Croaking of frogs".[https://books.google.com/books?id=XgY6AQAAIAAJ&q=Tootgarook+Croaking+Frog Page 198], The Victorian Historical Magazine, Volumes 28-29, Published:1955, ...Tootgarook, a native name which meant croaking of frogs.. Tootgarook is located within Boonwurrung Country.
The town is named from the pastoral run of J. Purves established adjacent to the west of the Tootgarook Swamp (now Wetland). Purves retained the name as his pre-emptive right.The Victorian Naturalist (1928-1929) Kitchen Middens by R.A. Keble https://archive.org/stream/VictorianNatura45Fiel/VictorianNatura45Fiel_djvu.txt{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70010346 |title=Recent Auction Sales. |newspaper=South Bourke and Mornington Journal |volume=X |issue=28 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=3 October 1877 |accessdate=8 January 2019 |page=3 (MORNING.) |via=National Library of Australia}}, ...On the following day a much larger and more important sale was conducted on the station of J. Purves, Esq., between Dromana and the pretty little village of Rye, and known as Tootgarook; why or how this remarkable title originated we could not ascertain, further than that its origin is native, and, as we believe a clever native lawyer, and a member of the present Parliament of Victoria was born in the locality, we shall not enquire further. At Tootgarook, which, at this late date in the history of Victoria, is not famous for a very imposing homestead-or indeed in any building that does not require demolishing and rebuilding...
A Tootgarook Post Office opened in 1858 and was renamed Rye in 1870. A later Tootgarook Post Office opened on 3 April 1956 when some development took place in the suburb, and closed in 1987{{Citation | last = Phoenix Auctions History | title = Post Office List | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Tootgarook* | access-date = 14 March 2021 }}
Today
In the same suburb, but extending to neighbouring suburbs, is the Tootgarook Wetland. This wetland is about 300 hectares in size and supports many rare and endangered species of flora and fauna.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}} Most of the wetland is in private ownership and some is vulnerable to development.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}
The local school in the area is Tootgarook Primary School, which currently{{when|date=January 2019}} has 203 students.{{cite web |url=http://www.tootps.vic.edu.au/ |title=Home |website=tootps.vic.edu.au}}
See also
- Shire of Flinders – Tootgarook was previously within this former local government area.
- List of places in Victoria (Australia) named from pastoral runs
References
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{{Shire of Mornington Peninsula suburbs}}