Lake Charm is a small town situated on the Murray Valley Highway, just west of a lake of the same name. Located in the northwest of Victoria, Australia, within the Shire of Gannawarra. Lake Charm is 19 km from Kerang. At the 2011 census, Lake Charm and the surrounding area had a population of 311.

Since the late 1880s Lake Charm has been used as an irrigation carrier as an appendage to the system.  In 1969 a regulator was placed across the inlet to control inflows.   In later years a pump station and outlet channel were constructed to pump saline waters from Lake Charm.

The off-river storage project originally began as the Lake Boga Storage Project and it quickly became apparent that this was not going to provide enough storage.  Further studies then included Kangaroo Lake and then Lake Charm and it became the Mid Murray Storage Project.  It then enlarged to become the Victorian Mid Murray Storages (VMMS), which also included Kow Swamp.

Lake Charm has strong links to the indigenous community and the Lake takes its name from a former local indigenous tribal Chief, Chief Cham.  It was thought that the “r” was left out and it became known as Lake Charm.  There is some conjecture over the naming of Lake Charm and there are a number of theories.  It went on to become a thriving community with a hotel called the Kangaroo Inn (Scantleton’s Hotel) built as a changing station for Cobb and Co.  Lake Charm also boasted a railway station which in its heyday in 1942-43 dispatched more cases of citrus fruit than any other station in Victoria.  Labour intensive salt harvesting began in 1880 and has been modernised and continued on by the fourth generation of the same family.

Further to the previously acknowledged books, “Between the Rivers” and “Tresco Estate”, two other publications which provide further history particularly of Lake Charm are “Lake Charm Reflections” and the “Lake Charm Mechanics’ Institute – the First One Hundred Years – 1891 – 1991”.

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