Located about 10km south of Walhalla, Coopers Creek is another of Gippsland's gold rush towns from the past.
Coopers Creek came to being when a gold prospector by the name of Donald MacLeod, while prospecting for gold found a vein of good quality copper at the junction of the Thomson River and Coopers Creek in 1864. Over the years coopers creek didn't produce much gold but did produce copper, platinum silver, palladium and lime, which was transported to Sale, Port Albert and Melbourne for sale. These days at Coopers Creek the