Kyneton Historical Society is a voluntary non-profit incorporated community organisation, comprising people from many fields committed to collecting, preserving, researching and sharing the wealth of material that is their heritage, and for which they are custodians.

A selection of their records includes:

• Shire of Kyneton Rate Books and correspondence {some in book form others on microfilm}
• Shire of Kyneton Council early minute books
• District photographs {old and new}
• Oral history tapes & transcripts {currently being transferred to CD-ROM}
• Videos {of early Kyneton in film converted to VHS format}
• Real Estate Records
• Kyneton Cemetery Headstone Register
• Kyneton Cemetery transcripts of headstone up to 1994 on microfiche
• School Registers {selection only}
• Clippings from local newspapers
• Local newspapers 1856-1954 on microfilm
• Local newspapers 1954 onwards
• Sporting records – minutes books, anniversary booklets etc
• Local business records – old invoices, ledgers, cash- books etc
• Family history folders
• Subdivision, titles and land records
• Parish maps of various districts
• Minute books & records from local organizations, e.g. Agricultural Society, Fire Brigade, Red Cross, Hospital, Mechanics Institute, schools etc.
• Undertakers records {selection only}
• Hospital Patients – females 1885-1898
• Hospital Patients – males 1891-1898
• Hospital Annual Reports
• Directory of Port Phillip Bay – 1847
• Early Local Doctors – profiles
• Directories – microfiche
• Celebration booklets – eg. Churches, Schools, Fire Brigade, Sporting clubs etc
• Early Gas Company register
• Victorian Birth, Deaths & Marriages – microfiche & CD-ROM
• Community groups folders
• Obituaries
• Family Trees & histories

Open most Saturday’s – 9.00 am until 1.30 pm and Tuesday’s – 9.30 am until 1.00 pm.

Appointments can be made by prior arrangement.

Postal address:
PO Box 466 Kyneton Victoria 3444