The Australian Axeman's Hall of Fame is located at Bell's Parade in Latrobe, and is home to where the very first World Woodchopping Championship was staged in 1891. The sport of woodchopping commenced in the year 1876 in a paddock near the country town of Sprent south of Ulverstone on the North West Coast of Tasmania. On this first recorded contest for a fixed prize rather than a wager, two bushmen, one from Victo... Read full article