History House

It is situated in the first Portland Town Hall, History House contains a social history shows from the Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection identifying with the area's birthplaces.

The bluestone building worked in 1863 is additionally home to the Portland Family History Group who gives an examination benefit of family and nearby history.

The gallery show records the settlement of Portland from 1834 covering such topics as the first tenants, revelation, settlement, looking over the town, movement, the Henty family, safeguarding Portland, and noteworthy occasions in the region’s history.

The centerpiece of the exhibition hall is Edward Henty’s furrow, used to hand the primary grass of soil over Victoria in 1834. Other key articles incorporate a pail from Henty’s deliver the Thistle, and apart from a tree in which Portland’s surveyor Charles Tyers cut the township facilitates in 1840.