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Mangalore is a rural village and district 12 km. north of Seymour in central northern Victoria. It is the junction where the northern railway line branches to Shepparton and Wodonga.

In 1838, Lt.-Col. Joseph Anderson, ex-commandant of the Norfolk Island prison, took up a pastoral run immediately east of the Goulburn River. He named it after the Indian military station, Mangalore, commanded by his brother, General John Anderson. (Anderson later speculated in land in South Yarra, giving his name to Anderson's Hill and Anderson Street.)

Farm selections began in the Mangalore district in the 1860s and the railway line came through Mangalore in 1872. The construction of the branch line to Shepparton in 1880 did not greatly add to Mangalore's economic activity. A school was opened at Mangalore West (1868-1926) and at Mangalore (1878). The latter has ceased operation.

The maximum range of buildings in Mangalore has been the school, a post office, a store, a hotel and the railway station. During the second World War storages for wheat and military material were erected near the railway station. In 1942 an aerodrome was constructed north of the village, and it has been upgraded to take international aircraft when the Melbourne Airport is unavailable for landings. The "Mangalore"homestead is nearby.

Mangalore's main social centre is now the Railway Hotel.

Mangalore's census populations have been 274 (1891), 83 (1933) and 119 (1961).

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