sentences:  Throughout the late 19th and early 20th century, Melbourne's wealthy social elite began to settle the area in earnest due to large blocks of land on the south side of Mount Macedon being released to them by the government.In 1903 the "Australian handbook" described Macedon as ""a post, money-order, savings bank and telegraph town.It is situated on the Melbourne and Echuca railway, 43¼ rail miles NNW of the former.